If you want a seal of your very own, all you need to do is go to www.squaretrade.com, choose ‘eBay seller’ under the ‘eBay seal services’ heading, and click ‘Apply’. Enter your name, address, phone number and eBay details here.
You should note, though, that SquareTrade costs you $9.50 per month – it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it. Ultimately, it is often worth signing up just to get the facility to effectively dispute and remove negative feedback. If you think you can maintain a good record alone then it might not be worth subscribing to yet another service to use with eBay.
Here’s a warning: there’s one thing that, if you don’t do it, could land you with an awful lot of negative feedback. Make sure you read all about it in the next email.How to Place Your eBay Store on “Vacation”.
So you’re going away for a while, and you’re not going to be able to ship people’s orders from your eBay store? Imagine how you’d feel if you got home from a nice vacation, only to find that your feedback rating had been trashed!
Buyers can find your store, pay for items, and then complain about you for not shipping them or responding to emails – without you even being there to stop it. What’s more, no-one will accept the fact you were on vacation as an excuse: after all, what were you doing listing items on eBay if you were on vacation?
So what’s the solution to this little problem? Well, it’s easier than it sounds. Whenever you go on vacation, just make sure you don’t forget to send your eBay store on one of its own.