Local pickup, continued

The question was, "does a local pickup yield a non-compliance strike for failing to upload tracking information within 24 hours?"

Commenter Oleg suggested entering something like "picked-up-4-04-2012" into the tracking field.

I've recently had two LPU's, each of which involved 3 different ebay items. I followed Oleg's suggestion.

The results are, um, mixed.

I ended up with 1 strike.

I have no idea, perhaps I did something odd, but I take it as evidence that Oleg's suggestion is valid.

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Next however, we find Ebay yet again trying their best to make LPU more difficult and/or dangerous.

Ebay does/will offer automatic 5 stars for communication when no communication has occurred in either direction. Except if LPU is offered on the listing.

I take that to mean that offering cash for LPU as a payment mechanism would disable the automatic 5 stars. That lack of an automatic 5 hasn't been a problem for me, mostly because I totally accept that some buyers will post a 4 no matter what I have done. However, many sellers pursue the 5.0 with intensity, and may well choose to avoid offering LPU to increase their chance of getting a 5 DSR.