New eBay Standard Envelope

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I just print the label on a regular 8.5 X 11 piece of computer paper then cut to fit a regular 6 3/4 envelope then lightly coat label with Elmers glue then attach with vintage label application tool.
Larry

I just print the label on 8.5x11 paper, cut on of those light cardboard junkmail solicitations into the size of the label, tape the card in a top loader to it , fold the paper around it into the shape of an envelope, and tape it up.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Originally Posted by tonyo

I just print the label on 8.5x11 paper, cut on of those light cardboard junkmail solicitations into the size of the label, tape the card in a top loader to it , fold the paper around it into the shape of an envelope, and tape it up.

damn great idea! gotta try that. save on the pwe's

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Wow, that's a lot of extra work to save literally two cents.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

Wow, that's a lot of extra work to save literally two cents.

It's a little annoying, but it feels like the least annoying path with the least number of steps to me .

[ValKehl]

I print the shipping labels for my eBay PWEs on the same pre-gummed label forms (2 on an 8.5" x 11" sheet) that my wife and I use to ship First Class and Priority Mail packages for our other eBay sales. The only thing I do after I print a label is to quickly cut it to fit the size of the PWE I am using. I'm very happy with the eBay PWE feature, which I have used for about 40 shipments already.

[sharked882013]

When looking for an item # on my February eBay invoice, I noticed that eBay overcharged me on seven different items when using their Standard Envelope feature. As you know, in late January they were having issues whereby if you hit print label, it sometimes generated a message "Unable to Generate a Label" so you would have to hit print label again. Every time you did this, you were being charged in my case $0.51. One item was charged 17 times instead of once - the others ranged anywhere from 2 - 6 times. Of course, eBay did not notify sellers of this so just spent two hours combing through the invoice and another 45 minutes on the phone with an eBay CSR trying to get credits back to my account. SO BEWARE and check your January and February invoices.

[greenmonster66]

I have been using this new service for the past month and shipped out over 100 cards, only 1 wasn't delivered! I am pretty happy about this cost effective way to mail out 1-3 cards for under $1.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by sharked882013

When looking for an item # on my February eBay invoice, I noticed that eBay overcharged me on seven different items when using their Standard Envelope feature. As you know, in late January they were having issues whereby if you hit print label, it sometimes generated a message "Unable to Generate a Label" so you would have to hit print label again. Every time you did this, you were being charged in my case $0.51. One item was charged 17 times instead of once - the others ranged anywhere from 2 - 6 times. Of course, eBay did not notify sellers of this so just spent two hours combing through the invoice and another 45 minutes on the phone with an eBay CSR trying to get credits back to my account. SO BEWARE and check your January and February invoices.

Did eBay agree to give you credit for these overcharges? I just checked my February eBay invoice and discovered that I was overcharged 8 times. The total $$ amount isn't much, but it pisses me off that eBay hasn't notified sellers and done corrections.

[insidethewrapper]

Just had my first ebay envelope lost. I did a search and the Postmaster contacted me and he had no idea of what I was talking about. He had never heard of a standard letter that could be scanned. He knew nothing about the ebay letter option . I see ebay has it scanned and it is scanned by a postal employee, but if you go to their website USPS.com, you can't track it, it's not in their system. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. What a system ? How can it be scanned by a postal worker and not be in their system ?

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Did eBay agree to give you credit for these overcharges? I just checked my February eBay invoice and discovered that I was overcharged 8 times. The total $$ amount isn't much, but it pisses me off that eBay hasn't notified sellers and done corrections.

I just now called eBay and spoke with 2 CSRs about this issue. The second CSR reviewed my invoices through March to date and determined that I had been overcharged 10 times for a total of $6.30 (pocket change, I realize). The CSR stated that I will receive a credit for the overcharges on my March invoice.

Also, I told the CSR that I was aware that other eBay sellers who were using the new Standard Envelope process had suffered similar overcharges on their eBay invoices, and I suggested that eBay might earn some positive kudos by taking the initiative to quickly identify all the other instances where this has occurred and issue credits to the affected eBay sellers. The CSR said she will issue a request for eBay's IT department to investigate this issue.