Turning listings back on ?

charlies_mum

soolin wrote: »

Same here, a handful of sales from Christmas Eve onwards and all waiting to go Tuesday.

For once ebay estimates look good, something sold yesterday with 1 day dispatch/2nd class shows delivery Thursday, 31. Dec. 2015 - Wednesday, 6. Jan. 2016 . Thursday might be tight but going forward to the 6th Is brilliant.

It would be nice if EBay could always be so generous with their delivery estimates. Obviously in the New Year they will go back to thinking we all have have magical powers

absolutereturn

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

Nothing to do with government subsidy, everything to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

I don't see anything there that explains why the Chinese can send stuff to the UK for free. :think:

I have a couple of English friends who live in Beijing half the time and they've said it's rather expensive to post stuff to the UK even if you use the university franking machine, it's hardly free, yet eBay sellers can post free of charge. I received a number of envelopes with the 0.00 stamped on them, the rest was all in Chinese so I can't tell what it said. Not everyone, not even the university, can post to the UK for free, that means it's not to do with UPU membership.

absolutereturn

forgotmyname wrote: »

14 days is average from China, I have had some arrive on the 7th day but mostly around the 14 days with a few upto 30 days. One took 45 days once and the other day one arrived after 106 days....

Cannot find anything to see if i claimed INR and got a refund. Probably need to check paypal instead.

Last year I bid on some silly auctions over Xmas, mostly stuff for jewellery making. 25p for 25 organza bags was the lowest price. My friends (the ones who live in China half the time) were here and said I probably wouldn't get all the stuff I'd ordered, I said for 25p, 50p, etc. I wasn't worried. It all arrived in January and didn't take that long, I'd say most purchases arrived in under two weeks, 20 days being the longest but they were all very small envelopes and would have come by air.