Browsing the archives for the Ranting and Whining category

eBay teases a really cool new unpaid item assistant process and then WON’T GIVE IT TO ME!

Today on The Whine Seller, we are a little bitter. Well, messed up by the time change, feeling the starts of a cold and bitter. These things happen.
But a few days ago, on March 10th, eBay teased the following:

Updates to the unpaid item process; Unpaid Item Assistant available to all sellers soon
In the next couple [...]

Are eBay buyers becoming feedback & DSR plea blind?

As soon as DSR ratings became important, I made up a package insert that goes out in every single package I send. One side thanks you for your purchase and gives the URL for the store if you want to shop with us again. The second side is a similar message and contains all of [...]

The eBay DSR feedback damage done by going on vacation

So, did you realize I was on vacation for the last week?
Yeah, I scheduled those blog posts to post while I was gone so I was blogged while I wasn’t actually here. That’s how I roll.
My husband and I just returned from a lovely 12 day vacation which was very much [...]

USPS’s green fail: making trash & wasting paper in the name of the environment

On Feb 12th, I went to get the mail from my PO Box and in it was the following postcard:

The gist of this postcard is as follows. They want me to recycle any mail I get in my PO Box and they are providing a box to allow me to do so while still protecting [...]