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Simple delivery
I am sorry to say but this morning I have taken everything off my items for sale and will never sell again on here. I am losing money on the Simple Delivery. Example: a couple of days ago I sold a small bag which went into a DL size envelope with my own 1st class stamp. To get the address of the buyer, I had to click on Label which then activated eBay's postage cost. I was charged £2.96 from eBay leaving me out of pocket by £1.21 instead of the £4 for the bag. EBay must be really racking the money in through sellers getting their own couriers and/or using their own stamps.
I will continue to buy but never sell.
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papso22
Mentor11 months agoSellers need to accept that if they try to circumvent ebay's mandatory Simple Delivery there may well be a cost to them and it may be better to just accept how it is now.
Your listing said that postage was free and you would use standard tracked, if you just used a first class stamp then it was not tracked. You could perhaps have sent it cheaper than the £2.94 ebay charged you but to get a refund of that £2.94 you still had to send it tracked, which you didn't.
That was your choice, as is stopping selling. By the way, had you had a business account (needed for selling items bought or made for sale), then you would not have had to use Simple Delivery.