Addresses & gotchas

Sometimes ebay glitches just drives you nuts.

Consider buyer addresses.

A given buyer has at least two addresses: one ebay address, one paypal address.

However, the ebay address isn't much used these days, and sits there like a trap for the unwary seller. It could well be stale from back before paypal came to dominate ebay payments. 2005 or so.

Traps:

1. buyer pays by something other than paypal. "Print label" will now use the ebay address.

2. seller ships before payment, either deliberately or by accident. Again, ebay address will be used.

Accidentally shipping before payment.

Sellers who send an invoice, combined or otherwise, should be aware of a glitch which makes their sold item go into "print shipping label" state as soon as the invoice is sent.

This type of errors are unnecessary, if the software were to work correctly. It should not be possible to print an ebay shipping label except as the item has come to be in "paid" state, either via paypal payment, or by seller marking the item as payment received.