| Here are a few tips on how to manage your eBay | | | | 4. If you have an eBay Store, be sure to put your |
| selling during your vacations and downtime: | | | | listings on hold while you are out of town. Go to the |
| 1. If you are going on vacation, you can handle eBay | | | | eBay Stores homepage, click Manage My Store, and |
| listings in a number of ways. Everybody needs to take | | | | click Store Vacation Settings. Turn vacation settings |
| a break now and then. But on the other hand, how are | | | | on. On the listings and message options page, choose |
| you going to pay for those airline tickets and resort | | | | an option for how you want to handle your store |
| rooms if you stop selling entirely? Luckily there are | | | | listings. You can postpone your sales altogether, in |
| ways to deal with the emailed questions you are sure | | | | which case they will not appear online. |
| to receive while the sale is ongoing. | | | | 5. If you are on vacation and you have eBay Store |
| 2. Here is one way to handle it if you are going to be | | | | listings, you do not have to take your sales offline |
| out of town: in the body of the auction description, | | | | entirely as described in the preceding tip. Rather, you |
| state the days you will be out of town, and tell people | | | | can add a vacation message to each of your listings. |
| you simply will not be responding to questions during | | | | You type the message once in the Listings and |
| that period - they should submit questions only before | | | | Message Options page. Then eBay adds the |
| the date you specify. | | | | message automatically to each of your listings during |
| 3. You should plan to be home or in the office when | | | | the period while you are out of town. |
| the sale ends. Often, buyers submit instant payment | | | | Make sure you manage your eBay selling wisely even |
| through PayPal. You cannot expect them to wait for | | | | though you are on vacation or having any sort of |
| you to ship while you are out of town. You should be | | | | downtime. This will ensure that you will still make a |
| available to ship within a day or two of the end of the | | | | good profit from your eBay sales even though you |
| sale. Otherwise, do not start the sale in the first place. | | | | are not around. |