@transit-county wrote:
I wish Ebay would bring back seller fees for us private sellers & at least give us the option to opt out of this ridiculous 'Simple Delivery' nonsense altogether! I don't sell much, i'm not interested in QR Codes as i'm not on TikTok or like 10 Years old, plus i don't have a printer.
I feel your pain, and a hell of a lot of other Ebayers also want the option of 'Choice'. Certainly Not to be Mandatory FORCED into adopting an Alien system of posting items to buyers, which is certainly not Simple at all. It needs to be called Complicated Delivery, or, Difficult Delivery, or, better still - Punishing The Disabled Postage System, as believe-you-me - the Mentally Disabled will absolutely be affected more than most, especially those with autistic spectrum.
To totally remove the ability to simple parcel up an item, and write on the front of the parcel the buyers address, and if it's an item being posted by Royal Mail Recorded Delivery, or, Royal Mail Special Delivery, International Tracked/Signed For - then we'd also add our own address onto the real of the parcel - and then drive, walk or cycle to the Post Office and leave the parcel to those paid staff professionals to do the rest. Now, that is very simple. No need to work anything new online, or need QR Codes, or Printers, or to worry about Parcels weight and length/width/depth - and The Post Office's won't be refusing them, because the AI (Artificial Intelligence) system messed up at Simple Delivery over the Parcels weight and length/width/depth - as naturally Ebay sellers use varying types of packaging to secure the safe delivery of their items to the buyers, and that can add to the weight and overall size. For example, I sell Video Cassettes and some customers particularly want it in a card box, to protect damage to the plastic video box, so AI cannot figure that out, as their logic is a one-size-fits-all approach, which is not logic at all, it's dumb-stupid.
Now, I fully accept and also condone that Ebay should absolutely evolve forward, and embrace new systems such as Simple Delivery, but for god sake make it Optional, not Mandatory. Allow people either with disabilities, or people who simply don't have a Smart Phone (such as myself) so QR-Codes simply are impossible, and that leaves having to buy a Printer (if people don't have one) - and there is also other complications, such as both Evri and Royal Mail being those two optional services - but Evri has a big list of items which they simply won't compensate even a penny on, if it gets damaged or stolen, etc.. - well, most buyers and sellers won't have a clue about that, so many people shall end up getting scammed and losing money.
In fact, I wouldn't care if Ebay actually charged Sellers a 5% commission - if we chose to opt out of Simple Delivery, so at least then Ebay makes money out of this compromise, which I would be more than happy to pay for.
But as things stand, I simply had to end all my listings and unless things change from this Tragic Mandatory Simple Delivery service by Ebay, then I'll be forced into making a Mandatory decision of my own, and that is selling ALL my items on other sites which do allow the Post Office counter service - which Ebay has allowed for almost 30 years from when it began.
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