A Few Puzzling Simple Delivery Questions

Hey all.

I have a couple of questions.

eBay are also going to change the postage on items already listed next week.

I have DVDs & CDs over 100g and under 100g.

How will they know which items to change to the over 100g rate, and under?

Also, they say any items under £10 and below 100g will not have to use simple delivery.

Can anyone from eBay confirm if it is £10 AND under 100g only? What if they are under £10 and say 120g?

I have tons of DVDs/CDs listing that will have to be removed if it is only under 100g.

I can't keep items on just over 100g when they are only listed for £2.99 with postage included.

Finally, will large letters under 100g be included in the exclusion, or just letter.

I don't want to be caught out next week and will have to start deleting now if not LL.

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Young sellers will not want to know as eBay is a dinosaur online compared to other places 

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This is not so, I have tried to list something today and am being forced to use simple delivery.  So instead of £1.55 eBay are trying to charge me £2.72!

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There is a certain sticky tree where there is no reason you couldn't accept payments via the former eBay payment friend (to avoid this post being deleted for mentioning other sites) which offers a quite reasonable and technically viable alternative, almost like eBay once was a few years ago, with no fees at all, so it is possible to offer things at a lower price to the customer. They even offer guides on how to do this safely. But despite apparently increasing usage recently it still gets a fraction of the traffic found here, except for some primarily collection in person categories where it may exceed eBay in numbers of results.  I have been trying to find the opt out to list a printer for £10 this week as it has apparently been removed, the only possible route so far is to list it in the everything else / other category rather than the printer one. Changing the price to £9.99 didn't help sadly, and the old click on collection only then back to postage isn't working. I'm hoping this is a temporary glitch in the website though. From the sound of it, we can always protest by using "Amazon style" packing and put small items in giant boxes, if enough people did that then perhaps it may clog up the postal system and make them rethink it! Why should I bother spending ages on box origami making small ones of the right size anyway when I can just get big ones from the supermarket or wherever?

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