Avoiding Simple Delivery

[amazonharvey]

Hello people some one has found the opt out for SD on listing page go down to eBay new Sd click advanced settings and there will be a pop up. Click custom postage another pop up click on then all are couriers will be there as they were before this all started 

[trevdbowler]

Most of my sales now are small letter. Only 2 have been 'forced' into Simple Delivery, where the buyer pays more for 'delivery' than the item cost, so most of my profit taken by Ebay.   So anyway I stick the £2.70 label on to a small envelope, expecting a Recipt from PO showing tracking number.  My PO says that a glitch (on Ebay or Horizon)  prevents printing of the tracking number on the receipt for a small letter, but it does work on a Large letter.   

[snavenairb]

Hi, Same here regarding postage, ebay are peddling their own preference. Only work around I have found, which you are using is to add postage to item price and offer free postage in the listing.

[doobydools3x79]

@snavenairb Doesn't work. Tried the free postage for a letter-sized item, weighing less than 50g, so effectively *should* have cost just 85p postage, but ebay still charged me more than a large letter at £2.70 with their 'prepaid label'. Daylight robbery.

[trevdbowler]

Create a listing, set to ‘oversize’ which may give you ability to set you own postage, e.g. 87p for letter. Save listing. If that stays at 87p, use ‘sell similar’ based on that item, making changes as appropriate. Sometimes works for my ‘normal letter’ paper items.

[incredible_how]

But the tracking number is on your order, so you can check on it that way.

If you organise the (free) Royal Mail collection you don't get a receipt.

[doobydools3x79]

Thanks, @trevdbowler, but tried this and there was no option to set a size, other than the Large Letter up to 1kg, and small and medium parcels with SD.

[3942rick2005]

My workarounds may well still work for the small items as well - as everything changes from one day to the next I cannot guarantee it though   -   original  https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/how-do-you-list-anything-bigger-than-61cm/m-p/7882486...    -   updated version   https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/How-do-you-list-anything-bigger-than-61cm-Part-two/m-...

[doobydools3x79]

I'm not a business seller, so perhaps that's why it doesn't work for me.

[incredible_how]

Simple Delivery is not for business sellers only private

[3942rick2005]

Nothing to do with being a business seller - they do not use simpleton delivery. Whichever workaround you use you have to follow it exactly. Don't do anything different or think that you can leave a step out, people who do this turn around and say that it doesn't work!

That said - the latest workaround seems to be falling down this last couple of days - ebay appears to be fiddling about in the background. ( I can't keep up with what they are doing! )

[amazonharvey]

To be honest I am fed up of trying to get postage from eBay which is fair.
If I do not get my buyers names upfront I am in the eBay make it region.
Cheap travel cheap prices slow delivery
To get hold of some sense I have done free post on my high value items with
ebay saying seller will pay that no seller is doing free post so eBay back
off . but the smaller items eBay is taking more than it needs. Buyer
chooses label nope eBay does and keeps the change

I can still use Royal Mail but even that price is cut with eBay again
keeping the change.
A 48 hr delivery is now 3
No matter what we say and do we can not beat the eBay’s big brother
computer

The only bonus eBay pays out quicker saying we are helping the small
sellers . Big or small eBay looks after number one . Dreadful in every word
and completely out of order in everything they say and do

[mrtest59]

Another option is list them on another site, i dont know Shpock, create a stupid buy it now for £1000 and give the other site item details without link.  Any serious buyer would follow

[badger1-0767]

when will ebay come to its senses and know that  do not fix it, when it is not broken. Put the postal back to normal bet it has something to do with Keir Starzmer 😎

[incredible_how]

If you want tracked postage then SD is now (it wasn't to start with) is cheaper than Royal Mail for small parcel (to 2p more for large letter) and you can get free collection and label.
I used tracked 48 large letter during the Christmas period for items as low as 4.00 and they still sold.
But large letter untracked is of course better value.