I totally agree with this comment. Selling low value items myself and have barely sold a thing in past few months - 4 this past whole month. Let alone views or watchers to send offers out to and I have gone as low as £1.00 knowing potential buyers will see the price hiked their end with protection fees, just to encourage bids. How much lower can I goooooooo?!
But no, nothing. Listing over and over again. Does not make sense with the new, now old as everything changes every few weeks ...Simple delivery eBay have set on default, every time you choose custom postage in advanced settings and it lists, the re-listed listing defaults back to Simple delivery parcel size and price!! Grrr!
No one is going to pay £2.70 for a large letter ie; shirt, skirt etc as people are very clued up and savvy with money with the cost of living, more and more people are turning to second hand but how many listings does some look through for a white shirt for arguments sake? First 20 at low to high? There are trillions for sale. People know flat large package under 2.5cm cost not much more than £1.55 weighing less than 250g via Royal Mail so must feel ripped off seeing £2.70 plus on most listings.
I have looked at so many items on watch myself and people are just not moving stuff. I used to get excited bidding. Now I know I can go back and buy attar and it I miss out, Thee are a trillion other choices. That buzz has gone flat. I list postage as £1.75 to cover my cost of travel as I like to post daily and new packaging and have never had an issue with postage prices before and lots of bids weekly. Now, I will be lucky if `I get a message about anything other than postage cost being too high if items have relisted automatically as sometimes I simply cannot be bothered to edit each listing. Yes, eBay's attitude has changed and sadly whilst I write this, the negativity seems to be rubbing off on me and I am a happy go lucky person the rest of my life :0)
I am constantly bombarded by people messaging asking to reduce postage cost and I have to explain it has relisted on default parcel size or lower cost of item again to try get the sale by knocking off another pound. But by then it already seems I was trying to rip off postage cost and justify it all over and over to buyers that do not sell. Only buy. And there are plenty of them. There are no more pounds I can knock off as I am selling stuff for nothing already. The pain for me is I list to end every five days as that works for me best as most people don't like to wait 7 days to buy a couple of quid top and then posting time. Quick auctions, quick sales once upon a time!! I have tried and tested all the ways. Buy it now, best offer etc.
I have also noticed lots of double triple listings since they have lifted from 200 to 300 free listings and people editing par of a post to get it through to view multiple times.
Now I am having to sit on my laptop every 5 days and change listings back from default Simple delivery to custom postage over and over as eBay told me there is no setting to default to custom postage. And staff can be nice but the answer is always the same. For tracking reasons but it is tracked via Royal Mail LL as with a code and I keep my POP for everything. It has become very hard work and half the time I don't have my items displayed as I do not have time to sit and edit 100 - 200 plus items when they don't sell to custom postage and you cannot do it in bulk section! So stupid and ridiculous.
I have never had a case where a buyer has not received anything in 23 years plus but know it happens and so for me. This is an absolute nightmare. And if it did, I would just refund the buyer and put a claim in. That is what claim forms are for. And POP receipt.
Think I will just charity it all soon and close my account as I am making very little monthly now on seconds as since it has gone free to list, it has become so much more saturated with people listing with awful pics and barely there info or measurements, inexperienced carefree, careless sellers that do not take pride in their listings as I have always treated my accounts as a business even though I am a small time private seller selling mine and family seconds in good usable condition. I feel potential buyers look at a few listings and don't like to ask for more info more often than not and see shabby listings and get put off going any further.
Ebay used to be a smart stand alone platform alongside others. Now it is just mediocre option at best. All info should be on all listings if you are buying online like shops advertise to avoid returns and issues later down line. It used to be an experience when people purchased. Now it is a desperate page resisting the same stuff over and over.
Yet a lot of new buyers don't know it is not us setting ridiculous postage costs - parcel size costs for light items and most old ebay sellers are leaving.
Stay or leave attitude in a flaky round about nice sort of way has been my experience when I have called several times over last few months.
Sick of eBay TV ads shoving free to list happy go lucky ads. It's all fake marketing with hidden agenders. Greedy comes to mind. And not on my side. And that's the thanks we get after 23 years of loyalty and fees they have made out of me.
Where is their loyalty? A very let down long time seller.
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