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I am a full time ebay seller, and I can tell you this: Ebayers want their merchandise as fast as they want their burgers and fries. Right now! Like you're supposed to drop everything you're doing and RUSH to ship their stuff!

I would imagine that most buyers want their stuff just about as quickly as you and other sellers charge their credit card for their ordered merchandise. Isn't your providing the fastest possible order fulfillment for your customers part of the deal?

If I had ordered something from you, I too would appreciate a little bit of a soupcon of a sense of urgency on your part to get the merchandise I bought and paid for to me.

(And yes, I have been burned by 3 EBay sellers in the past, one a "full-time" EBayer whom I had to have my attorney threaten to sue to get my merchandise. The obscenity-filled little love letter she included with the order was very much appreciated and was duly passed onto the landshark).

I promise shipment within 72 hours of payment. Daily trips to the post office is a real drag. This eats up work time. I cluster my auctions, posting them only one day per week. This means 50 or 60 auctions expiring at the same time. By waiting to ship on the third day after the auctions, I have a decent number of paid customers to justify a trip to the PO. Otherwise, I'd be standing in line every day at the PO with only a few packages each day. What a waste of time. Still, I have 1200 positive, glowing feedbacks, and no negatives. And every one of my customers gets their merchandise, including the approximately three dozen or so which are "lost" in the mail, annually. I have to eat those situations, and ship more merchandise again, at my own expense.