I recently sold my first item here on Ebid, and was shocked to find out I can’t even create a shipping label here on Ebid’s (slightly outdated) platform!
Does anyone else find it (a tad) inconvenient that if you want to ship let’s say by Fedex, you must login to their website to do so. Then type in buyer's name and address VS a few easy strokes of the button using Ebay. If I made a lot of sales here on Ebid, this would take quite a bit more time.
Then I find out Fedex requires Buyer’s phone number. So I return to Ebid’s site, look under Buyer’s Contact Details. Strangely, no phone number present!!
So I email Buyer, wait a day for a reply, only to have him refuse to give his number, instead stating to just drop it off at fedex.
If I agreed to do so, not only would I have to write the label by hand, I wouldn’t be receiving the shipping discount that I get on Fedex’s site, plus I’d have to drive 5 more miles out of my way VS dropping it off at Walgreens, a mile away. Luckily I did manage to convince buyer to give me his number.
So now I’ve just made my 2nd sale. Same thing. No phone number available! I emailed buyer a day ago. Still awaiting for a reply. Who knows, maybe he’ll never respond! Again, I find this very inconvenient.
(EBID, AT LEAST MAKE IT MANDATORY TO HAVE BUYER’S PHONE NUMBER ON THEIR CONTACT DETAIL!!!)
Does anybody else find creating a label as inconvenient and frustrating as I do???