Are they now overriding private sellers postage options after an items sells?

[runninginlane4]

I know that Simple Delivery is becoming compulsory but so far I have been able to option out and select my own postage options. I have been very careful in ensuring that opting out is the very last thing done before listing as eBay appear to use every opportunity to change it back to Simple Delivery. 

Yesterday I sold a couple of items and eBay appear to have changed postage to Simple Delivery and made a very half-hearted attempt to hide the buyers address until I buy a label. I have the stamps and have the buyers address so what would be the likely consequences if I post the items with my stamps and not buy their label? I can see that I don't appear to be able to mark the items as posted with buying their postage.  Will they refuse to release my funds in 14 days?

[thecrowmanuk]

I have had items changed to SD after listing them. I have been keeping on top of them and changing them back.

That is likely what happened to yours.

The consequences of using your own stamps is that you are paying for postage out your own pocket, and eBay will keep the money for the label on top.

[runninginlane4]

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@thecrowmanuk wrote:

The consequences of using your own stamps is that you are paying for postage out your own pocket, and eBay will keep the money for the label on top.

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I don’t include any weights in my listings so how would they know if the large letter I’m sending is 90g costing £1.55 or 120g costing £2.00? Surely they won’t know until I tell them when buying their label. 

[thecrowmanuk]

It would be irrelevant. SD label would cost £2.70 regardless of those weights.

The £1.55/£2.00 is only if you are paying out your own pocket on top.

I thought you said you had been charged for an SD label?

[sunflowers4me59]

If that happens to me, I will cancel the sale! What annoys me is seller revise the listing postage within 12 hours of it finishing, but ebay seem to be able to do it. If they won't allow us to, why should they be able to. Talk about one rule for us, another rule for them.

[runninginlane4]

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@thecrowmanuk wrote:

I thought you said you had been charged for an SD label?

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I don’t think I’ve been charged. It looks like I won’t be shown the buyer’s address until I buy the SD label. I can see it though on an invoice preview. 

[sunflowers4me59]

Sorry, I missed a word in message 5! It should read seller CAN'T revise listing postage within 12 hours of finishing.

[thecrowmanuk]

Yup. This is to prevent you using your own postage so they can take the £2.70

[runninginlane4]

OK. I am completely confused now. I decided to try getting a label for one of the items. eBay simply sent me a  label without telling me how much it is costing. eBay have also 'upgraded' it to a tracked item from standard second class postage, which is what I offered and the buyer paid for. How can eBay provide a service without making it clear as to how much it will cost?  

I've managed to live with all of eBay's changes up until now but Simple Delivery means I'm leaving eBay. I didn't offer a tracked service and the buyers didn't pay for one.  I'll cancel the couple of sales I had yesterday as it seems irrelevant if I'm left negative feedback or not now. 

[edwardian-dreams]

EBay did warn us they were going to hijack our listings but didn’t give us an exact date so no one would know if and when it happened 

pretty awful

but if you had buyer pays postage then it doesn’t matter if they told you or not how much it’s costing ..not now anyway ..cos buyer chose and,paid ..you only have to print the label 

[runninginlane4]

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@edwardian-dreams wrote:

EBay did warn us they were going to hijack our listings but didn’t give us an exact date so no one would know if and when it happened 

pretty awful

but if you had buyer pays postage then it doesn’t matter if they told you or not how much it’s costing ..not now anyway ..cos buyer chose and,paid ..you only have to print the label 

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It does matter to me! My descriptions included ranges of the number of my comics bought and the postage cost. For example buy 1 to 3 comics = £2.00 p&p, buy 4 to 10 comics = £3.50 postage etc. This description is now incorrect and the buyers from today may well be expecting a part p&p refund.

Bulk editing still includes the option to select the postal service and cost. Everything appears to work and there are no error messages but it's just ignored when saving the changes. I'm guessing this is how I got caught out.