Simple delivery is rubbish

[lindapoacher]

I have spent the morning trying to post an item I have sold.  I have no printer and am unable to use the new eBay app on my phone as the phone is to old!  So I cycled to the local village post office to be told that they are not accepting eBay parcels.  I have an iPad where I can use the eBay app and pressed button for a QR code it came up with Evri code QR.  I scrolled down hoping to see Royal Mail QR code but to no avail.  I then took a photo of the QR code on my phone.  Not being able to pop to the local post office I then had to get in my car drive 3 miles look for a parking space, pay for a parking ticket and walk to a mini market to post the parcel with Evri when I had listed Royal Mail.  This Simple Delivery is anything but simple!  It discriminates against people living in rural areas, those with no printers and is not helping to keep local post offices in business.  PLESE DO A U TURN - IT ISNT FIT FOR PURPOSE!!!!  I was quite happy wrapping and addressing my parcels and paying postage to my local post office.

[crafted_by_jeffrey_driver]

I've been on both sides of the private/business seller thing. There's a bit of a culture war between the two, but seriously, private or business, you're still a victim of eBay's ill-thought-out rules and fees. I was also mis-sold the business account. The recurring listing fees were crippling, and as its been said, they will not allow you to downgrade. I refuse to believe their system won't allow it. Somewhere, the decision has been made to disallow it.

Maybe it's different in the US, but eBay, in the UK, you simply don't have the traffic to warrant such high fees. On the biggest selling platform, I can list and grow as much as I like. Ebay makes growth so difficult.

Back to the discussion topic, yes, Simple Delivery is rubbish. It seems so ill-conceived. It didn't seem to account for small and light items, or the other end of the spectrum. There are now some exemptions, but the list lacks any clear logic.

Since SD is now mandatory, sales have stopped as eBay seems to have updated existing listings so that the buyer must now pay £2.70 (plus the bogus BPF.) So I went to bulk edit it so that I'd pay (free postage), and it can't be done. I'm going to have to edit each listing individually.

I say again, eBay, you make growth so difficult, which is why you're lagging far behind the main selling site beginning with 'A'.

[namelesspromotions]

Thanks for the info, and yes it's very helpful, or not, in all our cases it would seem..

They've really pulled a Homer with this one haven't they? 

As things stand, I'm just going to wait and see what happens when I finally make a sale and decide how to proceed from there.

Thanks again.