posted on August 25, 2000 04:29:57 PM new
Starting last night I have a handful of winning auctions that did not generate email noticed to me from Yahoo. I had others that did and they are not in any order.
I don't know if the notices will ever catch up but now some are almost 24 hours late.
Now that is par for the course on ePay, but Yahoo is usually prompt with this notice and I rely on it. I actually reply to that notice, change the address to the winner's, and keep the meat of the message, deleting all the garbage and adding a few words of my own to notify the winner that they won.
posted on August 25, 2000 04:44:51 PM new
zzyzx000 - thanks for the tip and for the great idea - replying to the notices. Never thought of it, but will be doing same from now on.
posted on August 25, 2000 04:58:38 PM new
Back in the old days when I used to make suggestions directly to Y!, I told them what needed to be put in that notice, just for the purpose of making it a shell to use for my notice to the buyer. The finally did 1/2 of it by putting the winner's email address in the notice.
The only thing left to make it a "good job" would be the seller's ad copy (ePay includes this and it makes a great shell...the only problem is it usually doesn't get sent for 24 hours after the auction ends), which I have to go cut and paste from the ad. that isn't a lot of work as the link to the auction is right there in the notice. You need this for future fererence when it's time to ship to make sure you know exactly what was sold.
Occasionally when I have a lot to do, I will forget to paste the winners email address where it belongs and so the notice will be sent to Y! because there address is naturally in the reply to field in my email program. What happens then is about 2 weeks later I get a form letter back from Y! telling me all sorts of useless information, and basically reminding me never to bother emailing them if I have a problem.
