Simple delivery postage

[stguidelines]

Trying to sell a postcard. Simple delivery wants to charge £2.72!!!! I usually charge 95p.

They say items under £20 do not have to use SD -- how do I opt out???

[papso22]

You can't opt out, if an item is exempt from simple delivery you will be able to select the custom postage option when creating the listing.

[marco@ebay]

Hi stguidelines, thanks for your post.

If you are unable to select custom postage for the item in question, please let me know, so I can take a further look.

Thank you,

Marco

[52125laura]

Hi,

I've also discovered the "no opt out" of simple delivery and frankly I'm not impressed, particularly as I don't feel that it allows for the cost of packing materials necessary for some items that require any sort of extra protection. I am getting very disillusioned as a private Ebay seller because I and other people are finding it less and less attractive as a place to list items.

Regards,

52125Laura

[gezling]

Yes, the SD fee is ridiculously in excess of what the RM would actually charge - or, in my case, even less as I have thousands of pounds of old (genuine!) discount postage to work through so I used to charge ~60% of actual cost.

Just do what I do and don't list any new items. 

eBay has already lost out on the fees they would've received for £10,000+ of items that I would've listed here since Simple Delivery was mandated.