Very slow delivery times since the changes on Feb 4th.

[*maetrix*]

Anyone else noticing this?...before the changes were brought in i'd order something and it would be on my doorstep within 2-5 days max...now seem to be waiting well over a week for pretty much everything.

Are sellers thinking "soddit,if i've got to wait for my payments to come in then i'm not rushing to send stuff out".....?

[buffster1963]

I would have thought that sellers would be posting out quicker to get their money quicker. 

[*maetrix*]

Me too but it's noticeable that deliveries have become painfully slow over the last 3/4 weeks.

[forestfeline62]

Have you read this announcement from ebay 

New Simple Delivery features, community events & other launches landing this March .Could be better for sellers .Since the waiting for payment came in I have been sending my items tracked 24 /48  but this new announcement will be better for me . 

[*maetrix*]

Yeah,i'm not buying all this new "simple delivery" claptrap...have ordered approx 8 or 9 things over the last 2 weeks & pretty much all of them are now running late...checking items on my purchases page & ebay are telling me items should've been delivered 2 days ago,check the tracking & the delivery company (eg yodel / royal mail) are saying it's not being delivered for another 2 days..I could understand it if it was 1 or 2 items but this is happening with nearly every order.

[*maetrix*]

*Would just like to add to this post that for the 3rd time in as many weeks an item that i've bought has not been delivered...I reckon this is something that happens roughly 3 or 4 times a year but for it to happen 3 times in 3 weeks is too much of a coincidence & makes me wonder whether some sellers are trying to "pull a fast one" by getting RM or whoever to refund them for items that have supposedly gone "missing in the post".

Anyone else noticing this occurrence with purchases recently? 

[meode]

As a UK seller, I used the Royal Mail’s Tracked 48 service as it was competitively priced and covered up to £150. Items sent with this service would typically be delivered on time or even early. Now with eBay’s insistence on using Evri, Yodel etc delivery is proving much more precarious. Why they insist on using couriers with terrible reputations is beyond me. Delivery is taking twice as long, hence getting paid is taking forever. It’s in my interest to get an item dispatched as quickly as possible because that is the only way I can potentially get paid within a reasonable time frame.

Ebay is obviously floundering in the UK but the platforms that it worries so much about (Vinted, Depop etc.) don’t have the infrastructure of eBay.

Instead of scrapping the sale fees and then trying to claw something back through these pathetic’Buyer Protection Fees’ they should have just lowered their original fees and people would have been happier with that. All this turmoil isn’t good for buyer/seller confidence.

[jamesunit19]

I’m a seller on eBay and I’m experiencing the same problems. The moment you post something it takes forever to get to a buyer. I think eBay is doing this on purpose so they can hold onto our money longer to gain interest on it before releasing it to our accounts. I have also noticed they pay my money in bits. If I sale an item for £50 they first release £30 after item delivered but still hold on to £20 for another days before release. eBay has become a joke. I have been using it for over 13 years but for the first time I have just moved to Vinted for a better service. 

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

I find RM items come in 2-3 days.

With EVRI it takes about a week.

[18catsrfurryfriends]

I am having the same issue. Before this so called "simple delivery " I could get a parcel on 48hr delivery collected by Royal Mail on say a Saturday and it would be there on sometimes on a Monday but definitely by Tuesday.

One I have done last Saturday 19th has still not been delivered yesterday the tracking eventually updated to say it would be delivered today Thursday and this morning it says it is at Cardiff so whether it will be delivered who knows.

Also the tracking using simple delivery is atrocious. When I made the arrangements for collection  when we had the choice you would get regular updates and you would get email when it was delivered now you have to keep checking.

Why they ever brought this in I will never know  we are all old enough to be able to decide who we send the items with and we all knew  the risks about non delivery etc

[*maetrix*]

Expecting a delivery yesterday/today (via evri)...still not shown up & tracking info is now saying it's running behind schedule/still at their sorting hub...this is the 4th or 5th time this has happened in recent weeks with ebay deliveries...how on earth is simple delivery improving things?

[18catsrfurryfriends]

The Last two I have sent on 48hr tracked service with royal mail have taken 6 days. As i said previously when I did my own arrangements if it was picked up Monday it was there on Wednesday and constant tracking updates throughout.

I have noticed if parcels I receive from ebay seller that does not have market place on it gets here quicker 

I am convinced it is because it has market place rubbish emblazoned all over it takes longer.

We are not children we can make our own decisions.

Ebay have taken the fun out of selling.  It's absolute rubbish and if ebay listened then they would do a uturn

[pegr-834437]

There is no chance Royal Mail are taking time to sort out which are market place orders and which are not and thinking hmm lets keep them here for a couple of days. They'd have to do this every day and just have cages of parcels standing around, do you honestly think Royal Mail staff have the time and space to do that?

[18catsrfurryfriends]

No i don't It was just a comment to get frustration out of the way but as others have pointed out since using simple delivery things are taking longer to arrive it's not just me stating that.

And it makes it longer to get your funds the last  item I sold was on  the 19th had to wait till Monday to get it picked up because of problem with rm and I will not get my funds until Saturday. 

[*maetrix*]

Plus when I look at items that have been delivered to me days ago - ebay are still not marking them up as delivered on the order details page - very unfair on the sellers - this whole simple delivery system is an absolute shambles.