May 12 - Changes to eBay and USPS

May 12 brings new rates for the USPS. In fact, there is a law that they
have to change prices every month to reflect inflation as defined by the
Consumer Price Index.

http://www.usps.com/prices/

Express mail will be zone-based. There will be discounts for using
electronic postage.
Priority Mail will also have discounts for using electronic postage.
Priority Flat Rate boxes stay the same. Yay!

eBay changes:
Feedback changes to benefit sellers
eBay's making some important changes to Feedback in May to boost buyer
confidence and improve the eBay marketplace. The changes include important
protections for sellers against unfair negative Feedback. Negative or
neutral Feedback will be removed when it appears a buyer is abusing the
system. If you think this is happening to you, report to eBay by using the
Contact Us link on any eBay Help page. We'll also remove Feedback when a
buyer doesn't respond to an Unpaid Item (UPI) report, or if buyer responds
but doesn't specifically call out seller performance, item condition or
transaction problems.

Some other changes which may not take place on May 12:

Upgrade fees for international exposure - As a seller from the US or Canada
for 10, 20, or 40 cents you can have your listing appear on both ebay.com
and ebay.co.uk, for example. UK sellers can do the same to have their
listing appear on both.

Listings removed for policy violations now appear in the Unsold section of
eBay. This way if you made a small error that caused your listing to be
pulled you now have the opportunity to fix the error and re-list.


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Football Coach

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:49:39 -0500, "PC" wrote:

eBay changes:
Feedback changes to benefit sellers
eBay's making some important changes to Feedback in May to boost buyer
confidence and improve the eBay marketplace. The changes include important
protections for sellers against unfair negative Feedback. Negative or
neutral Feedback will be removed when it appears a buyer is abusing the
system. If you think this is happening to you, report to eBay by using the
Contact Us link on any eBay Help page. We'll also remove Feedback when a
buyer doesn't respond to an Unpaid Item (UPI) report, or if buyer responds
but doesn't specifically call out seller performance, item condition or
transaction problems.

Does anyone know if the new rule preventing sellers from leaving
negative feedback applies to auctions that ended before the date the
rule goes into effect? (I'm assuming May 12th, though I've also seen
May 20th given as the date the rule goes into effect.) Anyway, if an
auction ended on April 15th and a buyer posts justified negative
feedback on May 15th can the seller still leave negative retaliatory
feedback because the auction ended before May 12th?