How do I take a holiday?

Hintza

Any ideas on how to shut down for a wee break. I have been doing this now 7 days a week for a year and I'm knackered I sell on both Amazon and EBay. I also spend hours sourcing new products.

The easy part is removing the listings. My problem is selling elictrical items requires a huge amount of after sales support dealing with questions and returns. Doing this well helps keep my ratings high and therefore my prices and sales higher than my competitors.

I am terrified of the consequences of my buyers not being able to communicate with me but i need to escape for bit. Had a speed wobble a week or so back when I was making mistakes in listings; e-mails and deliveries.

What steps do I need to take to ensure buyers don't think I have done a runner which could be catastrophic some are bad enough when you give 110% service and commitment.

bleugh

if you run a shop you can 'go on holiday'

otherwise, leave your PC on and set an 'out of office' thing up

tru

I think you can set your e-mails to auto-respond (though it might depend on who you use for your e-mails), you could say you're away til whatever date and will reply as soon as you get back.

The brainy peeps on the techie board will know more

Hintza

Thanks for the replies guys yes I had thought about that and would do that. Is there anything else that would need to be done?

tru

Answerphone message?

I can't think of anything else :think: