USPS does not directly fly packages on planes. Time sensitive packages such as Priority Mail and faster services are delivered to their main contractor FedEx. FedEx then hands the packages back to USPS for final delivery. You had better care about what date they ship the items because it will miss the estimated delivery time eBay is showing the customer, who may not be too pleased. Have used 3 day shipment period for 25 years. Most items go out the next day, but that really depends upon what time they order. Local post office is open till noon, but its best to have packages there by 11:30pm as the private contractor picking up packages at various post offices generally arrives at that time. Post office is 3 small city blocks away. If I have a car load of packages I can ring the rear doorbell for contractors and unload them on a large antique railroad card the office still has in the back. Worse case scenario is that they order it on Saturday and Monday is federal holiday so it gets shipped Tuesday. Not making a special trip into a another local town unless I am already scheduled to make other errands. In those 25 years not a single customer has asked for and opted for a faster shipping service.
Understood and I truly appreciate your comments! The point of the video is "Handling Time" that eBay makes one of the Number One priorities of all sellers. Not delivery time or postal shipment time. Those are both issues important to discuss, but not at all a point of this video or most of the teaching in this group and on this channel. If a seller misses his or her stated handling time very often, eBay will not only remove Top-Rated Seller status IF they had that, but eventually move that seller down the Below Standard seller level where their search engine placement degrades considerably AND eBay imposes a financial penalty on all sales of that seller until he can go an extended time without missing the stated handling time. Since eBay makes a seller's promised handling time SO critical, therefore, anyone who wants to have great sales must also make their handling time one of the most critical pieces of their business. This means GETTING YOUR PACKAGES TO THE POST OFFICE ON TIME WITH TRACKING PROOF OF POSTAL ACCEPTANCE each and every time. Your three-day handling time is great for your business, works for you for 25 years, super! For most sellers who want to maximize their sales and minimize their selling fees, they must honor a 1-day or same-day handling time. This is the only way to eventually get Ultra-Advanced eBay sales. Plus, the 10% discount on seller fees is an instant profit AND the higher search engine rank that eBay affords Top-Rated Sellers adds to our sales. This means that for most sellers, if they want to maximize their income they not only promise a 1-day or same-day handling time AND THEY DO NOT MISS THIS EVER. This video here describes the last point of no return that many sellers should know about in their areas that, if you miss getting your packages to the post office on your stated handling time deadline, there is ONE MORE POSSIBLE POSTAL LOCATION to get your packages accepted on time before your metrics are harmed with a late handling time mark. AND if you sell a lot of packages daily, that handling time metric MULTIPLIES by the number of packages you miss getting mailed on your promised date. So, fortunately, eBay is far less concerned how fast the post office gets them out than eBay is concerned that their sellers do what we promise. That is, not missing our promised handling time. Finally, good news!!! It turns out that Same Day and 1-Day Handling times are not NEARLY as bad as many sellers assume they are in spite of all I said above. LITERALLY a same-day handling time sometimes has UP TO 4 DAYS TO GET A PACKAGE TO THE POST OFFICE as I show here: ruclips.net/video/Ti3Izxl3INM/видео.htmlsi=4I8gVgoCo1pjT60h
Forgot to say thank you in the previous msg Greg. Your videos are always keenly anticipated and much appreciated. And in the spirit of Streisand's "people who need people", I have 2 and a half questions for you I would appreciate your opinions on. 1: It is my understanding that BLOCK CAPITALS in item titles are frowned on by ebay, - however, do you see any benefits to putting a capital letter at the beginning of every word, or only some words? for instance examples title A: Star Wars Vintage Toy Bundle .. or B: Star Wars vintage toy bundle also Question 2: From your previous videos you enthusiastically encourage people to use white backgrounds in photos - specifically citing that Google prefers white backgrounds when indexing items with links to ebay. I get that, and appreciate this is good practice. However; - as a customer, when I am browsing ebay, i am often drawn to listings where there isnt a white background. With many items, i find a white background a little stark. Its just my preference, but i tend to be drawn to items where the item is perhaps placed on a light beige, wooden oak effect display table. This is similar to how many etsy shops display / photograph items - with a classy display, sometimes with a small flower arrangement in the background etc. Im talking very light tones, with wooden effect floor tile etc. Its just my 2cents, but with books etc, or a small framed print etc, i am often more attracted to such colour scheme set-ups as opposed to all white, and will often buy books/sports cards etc that are displayed this way. So my longwinded question to you is,.... forasmuch as white is standard and will get indexed more readily by Google... as a seller, could this be offset by the extra sales such an alternative classy photo setup could generate using these other colour schemes? Thank in advance for your reply. Ian 👍🏴
Hello Ian, Glad to see you again here. As to capital letters at the start of each eBay title word, not only do *I* suggest it, but EBAY WANTS US TO TO IT. (Although UNLIKE what I just did, eBay doesn't want all caps.) And to the white background, I understand and I often like the look of some sort of background in good taste that compliments the item. BUT your and my preferences aren't what determine these things. What determines them is what marketing and consumer behavior studies show and that is that white backgrounds get more clicks than any other. This is why eBay STILL prefers them, still makes the white BG tool available, and that Google Shopping still gives white BGs preferential treatment. The white BGs do NOT results in extra purchases by themselves, but they do without question get more click throughs so the listing themselves can then work to sell the item or not. In spite of the hassle, in spite of my preference for non-white, I will continue to go to the trouble to white BG every "hero picture" (eBay's term for the first picture in every eBay listing) because eBay wants it and also my marketing background confirms the reason eBay wants us to do it. Have a great rest of your week and weekend! ~Greg
USPS does not directly fly packages on planes. Time sensitive packages such as Priority Mail and faster services are delivered to their main contractor FedEx. FedEx then hands the packages back to USPS for final delivery.
You had better care about what date they ship the items because it will miss the estimated delivery time eBay is showing the customer, who may not be too pleased.
Have used 3 day shipment period for 25 years. Most items go out the next day, but that really depends upon what time they order. Local post office is open till noon, but its best to have packages there by 11:30pm as the private contractor picking up packages at various post offices generally arrives at that time. Post office is 3 small city blocks away. If I have a car load of packages I can ring the rear doorbell for contractors and unload them on a large antique railroad card the office still has in the back.
Worse case scenario is that they order it on Saturday and Monday is federal holiday so it gets shipped Tuesday.
Not making a special trip into a another local town unless I am already scheduled to make other errands. In those 25 years not a single customer has asked for and opted for a faster shipping service.
Understood and I truly appreciate your comments!
The point of the video is "Handling Time" that eBay makes one of the Number One priorities of all sellers. Not delivery time or postal shipment time. Those are both issues important to discuss, but not at all a point of this video or most of the teaching in this group and on this channel.
If a seller misses his or her stated handling time very often, eBay will not only remove Top-Rated Seller status IF they had that, but eventually move that seller down the Below Standard seller level where their search engine placement degrades considerably AND eBay imposes a financial penalty on all sales of that seller until he can go an extended time without missing the stated handling time.
Since eBay makes a seller's promised handling time SO critical, therefore, anyone who wants to have great sales must also make their handling time one of the most critical pieces of their business.
This means GETTING YOUR PACKAGES TO THE POST OFFICE ON TIME WITH TRACKING PROOF OF POSTAL ACCEPTANCE each and every time.
Your three-day handling time is great for your business, works for you for 25 years, super! For most sellers who want to maximize their sales and minimize their selling fees, they must honor a 1-day or same-day handling time. This is the only way to eventually get Ultra-Advanced eBay sales. Plus, the 10% discount on seller fees is an instant profit AND the higher search engine rank that eBay affords Top-Rated Sellers adds to our sales. This means that for most sellers, if they want to maximize their income they not only promise a 1-day or same-day handling time AND THEY DO NOT MISS THIS EVER.
This video here describes the last point of no return that many sellers should know about in their areas that, if you miss getting your packages to the post office on your stated handling time deadline, there is ONE MORE POSSIBLE POSTAL LOCATION to get your packages accepted on time before your metrics are harmed with a late handling time mark. AND if you sell a lot of packages daily, that handling time metric MULTIPLIES by the number of packages you miss getting mailed on your promised date.
So, fortunately, eBay is far less concerned how fast the post office gets them out than eBay is concerned that their sellers do what we promise. That is, not missing our promised handling time.
Finally, good news!!! It turns out that Same Day and 1-Day Handling times are not NEARLY as bad as many sellers assume they are in spite of all I said above. LITERALLY a same-day handling time sometimes has UP TO 4 DAYS TO GET A PACKAGE TO THE POST OFFICE as I show here: ruclips.net/video/Ti3Izxl3INM/видео.htmlsi=4I8gVgoCo1pjT60h
Forgot to say thank you in the previous msg Greg. Your videos are always keenly anticipated and much appreciated.
And in the spirit of Streisand's "people who need people", I have 2 and a half questions for you I would appreciate your opinions on.
1: It is my understanding that BLOCK CAPITALS in item titles are frowned on by ebay, - however, do you see any benefits to putting a capital letter at the beginning of every word, or only some words? for instance examples title
A: Star Wars Vintage Toy Bundle .. or
B: Star Wars vintage toy bundle
also
Question 2: From your previous videos you enthusiastically encourage people to use white backgrounds in photos - specifically citing that Google prefers white backgrounds when indexing items with links to ebay. I get that, and appreciate this is good practice. However; - as a customer, when I am browsing ebay, i am often drawn to listings where there isnt a white background. With many items, i find a white background a little stark. Its just my preference, but i tend to be drawn to items where the item is perhaps placed on a light beige, wooden oak effect display table. This is similar to how many etsy shops display / photograph items - with a classy display, sometimes with a small flower arrangement in the background etc. Im talking very light tones, with wooden effect floor tile etc. Its just my 2cents, but with books etc, or a small framed print etc, i am often more attracted to such colour scheme set-ups as opposed to all white, and will often buy books/sports cards etc that are displayed this way. So my longwinded question to you is,.... forasmuch as white is standard and will get indexed more readily by Google... as a seller, could this be offset by the extra sales such an alternative classy photo setup could generate using these other colour schemes? Thank in advance for your reply. Ian 👍🏴
Hello Ian,
Glad to see you again here.
As to capital letters at the start of each eBay title word, not only do *I* suggest it, but EBAY WANTS US TO TO IT. (Although UNLIKE what I just did, eBay doesn't want all caps.)
And to the white background, I understand and I often like the look of some sort of background in good taste that compliments the item. BUT your and my preferences aren't what determine these things. What determines them is what marketing and consumer behavior studies show and that is that white backgrounds get more clicks than any other. This is why eBay STILL prefers them, still makes the white BG tool available, and that Google Shopping still gives white BGs preferential treatment.
The white BGs do NOT results in extra purchases by themselves, but they do without question get more click throughs so the listing themselves can then work to sell the item or not.
In spite of the hassle, in spite of my preference for non-white, I will continue to go to the trouble to white BG every "hero picture" (eBay's term for the first picture in every eBay listing) because eBay wants it and also my marketing background confirms the reason eBay wants us to do it.
Have a great rest of your week and weekend! ~Greg