When printing labels i use Dymo label writer. And if you look at the screen shot, previously when i got a payment notification from Paypal i used to hightlight the customers name and address and i would hit the icon that the arrow is pointed to and it would print the label.
Now with the way ebay formats the email it won't do that because the information is formatted into a table as per screen shot.
When i highlight the name and address of the buyer in the eBay notification email copy and paste it into dream weaver or Front page it is formatted into a table which makes absolutely no sense. This why my label maker software doesn't work properly.
So now i have to put the caret into the label, hit CRTL V and hit the print icon so needless to say a lot more keystrokes and mouse clicks.
I am not sure why eBay finds it necessary to antagonize their sellers by doing something like that, they seem to get a kick out of making it as difficult as possible for sellers. Perhaps when they make changes they should be talking to the people who are the end users and get their opinion.
Another thing that is annoying is that with the Paypal payment notifications i could look at the list of emails and right away see if there are multiple purchases by a buyer, i could separate them and lump them together later (see screenshot)
Now i have to print all my labels and later go over them to make sure there are no duplications since the email from eBay doesn't give me any information when i look at the list, all i see is a bunch of truncated subject info which really tells me nothing. Again, why make it so difficult ???
I can't set my outlook to receive plain text emails because all that shows up is the HTML code they use to format the email.
Below is an example of what it would look like.
"
<head>
<style>
<!--
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-parent:"";
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"}
p.MsoNormal
{mso-style-parent:"";
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm}
span.seller-font
{}
-->
</style>
</head>
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="584" style="width: 438.0pt; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt solid #F9F9F9; background: #F9F9F9">
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="seller-font">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #111820">
Shipping details </span></span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="seller-font">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #111820">Ship
to:</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="seller-font">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333333">
Jane Doe </span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="seller-font">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333333">1800
First Ave</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="seller-font">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333333">
My Town ON J4V 1M3 </span></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
"
I have given eBay my 2 cents worth but i doubt if anything will change.