Coming soon to eBay Mandatory Simple Delivery

[andha-21]

Someone found the dates yesterday and posted them. Just thought it made sense to make it easier to find.

It's in the Help Section under Opt out 

Simple Delivery will be the only listing option as of 15th April and they will start adjusting current listings from the 7th April.

So at least we know where the Iceberg is now. 

[ladyloki1998]

100% agree
In the same boat

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[ladyloki1998]

I’ve had zero sales for a week now…. NEVER had that 🤨
It’s RIP to my sales now

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[tressygirl]

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@spiltvimtoonfloor   wrote.....

If the label they send you is wrong there should be a provision for you to remedy it by clicking a link and adding the correct weight and size, then the incorrect label gets cancelled and a new label is generated, and then the price is then amended to the correct one.

There's that word  ' should '  be again,  but will it be ?  🤔

@spiltvimtoonfloor

[a45heaven]

SIMPLE  ?

now thats a major overstatement - what experiences on the platform gives confidence that the designers are capable of constructing such a far reaching process? 

The US sellers are horrified that this is actually being entertained.

With the 'Should' terms - precisely what amount of compensation will ebay provide if their system is not fit for purpose?

[lucy_farmer]

Re 'package sizing'

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Just read the list of sizes and they all have examples of things that are suitable to be posted within that size;

The following sizes , up to 1KG. Up to 2KG. Up to 15KG. Up to 20kg. *all* have examples of things that are suitable .  like smartphone, tablet, computer monitor, microwave.....

All these items are breakable and /or expensive and therefore on the exclusion list.

You'd be sending them uninsured.

And ebay aren't going to be covering them as they don't 'comply with the carriers terms'.

Why are they encouraging this?

[andha-21]

Because it's a trap?

Like I keep saying.

Even the option for sellers to deselect Royal Mail should have been a giant warning sign.

They are the only courier with full UK coverage. 

So how is that possible?

[1956glyn]

This was my point i raised when SD was first mentioned 😞

There are also a few "kop outs" that can also be used...eg the item arrived broken because it was not packaged well enough etc etc .......even if it actually was

[1956glyn]

We have had 1 breakage in the whole time we have been selling on Ebay.      That item looked as if it had been stamped on or dropped from height 😞   Royal Mail

[andha-21]

@1956glyn 

I mostly sell stuff from my collections so models or dvd related.

Models I do fortress packing. Sure, the models are tiny and the vast majority weigh virtually nothing but their size means they end up in small parcels.

Which means they had to survive sorting and transit with packages of upto 2kg.

So the box had to be able to withstand that.

Looks like it could be far worse now with nearly everything between 1 & 10kg being classed the same.

[1956glyn]

Generally lately i am finding that our local postie is trying to ram more and more through our letterbox even when its so obvious we are in  😞  Car on drive and front lounge windows open.

One of these days he is going to rip the letterbox out of our fairly new front door........i am thinking of my sons boxed contact lenses that he orders online 😞  Doubt ebay would pay out for breakages when Posties are doing this

[spiltvimtoonfloor]

What happens if for example, ...... ebay issue a label but it only covers up to £25 insurance so I ignore that label and use the royal mail website and send it as I normally would say tracked 24.

I know this costs me more but my question is, is there still a provision to upload my own tracking? And if so would that then be good enough for ebay to see that it has been delivered?

Probably not.

[edwardian-dreams]

In the weekly chat ebay staff said (in reply to someone who said evri don’t compensate for  pottery ) that since it’s a restricted item they will be able to opt out of SD and carry on as before 

[reubenfrogs]

eBay is doing a stupid thing here

[edwardian-dreams]

But will always be their loss as long as they think people are stupid 

[peter748203]

Hi,

I am 80 Years old, have been selling odds & ends for years, to top up my Meagre Pension.

I have been using Royal Mail as my preferred Postage option,

Most of the time without any Problems, 

I have a Mobile Phone that cannot even take Photographs,?? never mind QR Codes?? whatever they are.

Now i have cancelled at least 6 Listings this afternoon,

Because the only option given to me was Evri or E-Bay Label, I don,t have a Printer either??

It was so simple before. List an Item, Sell It, Pack It, Send To The Address Given, By Royal Mail 48 Tracked,

They now even tell you How to Safely Package an Item?? I think i know how to do that,

So i shall now find another alternative to Sell a Few Items, Facebook Marketplace maybe an option.

I was speaking tom an E-Bay Agent today for about a Half an Hour, He Says that E-Bay will not be making a Profit From The New System,

Also could not get a clear Answer as to why they are now Charging Buyers a Protection Fee??

So if i as a  Seller had to accept an Item Back, Would E-Bay keep the Buyers Fee, & then claim it back from Me??? More Tinkering with Things that they should leave alone??

[akemp1]

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@peter748203 wrote:

I was speaking tom an E-Bay Agent today for about a Half an Hour, He Says that E-Bay will not be making a Profit From The New System,

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Hey Peter sorry to hear how difficult this will make things for you.

The people who run ebay seem totally detached from reality and the customer services people just tell you what you want to hear when it's obvious from both the high RM pricing and what ebay have told investors on record that this is a 'for-profit' initiative which ebay are pushing through regardless of the social impact to people such as yourself and many others in their own individual situations.

It's frankly appalling what they are doing and their culture of lies and double-speak.

I'm ashamed to have recommended ebay to my friends for all these years.

I can only suggest pausing your listings for at least a month and seeing how this plays out as it's sure going to be a bumpy ride. I can only think that ebay will have to re-think at least some aspects of this to avoid a broad public drubbing.

It may also be worth joining an increasing group of us by raising a complaint with the Competition and Markets Authority detailing how the mandatory bundling of ebay's expensive and inflexible postage services will personally affect you.

[ladyloki1998]

It is very sad that are introducing Simple Delivery!!! NOT 😡
Of course they get their profit!
Why not just go back to sellers fees 10%, then we all knew what it was!
FB marketplace, may be the only way fwd. ☹️

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[a-tin-man]

I am so sorry for you. Why on earth do ebay keep messing about with things they obviously have no idea about. Most people are perfectly capable of knowing what size and weight their item is. 

The original system of printing off a label or a QR code or a handwritten address with a postage label applied at a Post Office suited everyone. Its ok Vinted using this system as the users mostly sell clothes. With Ebay you can sell from a stamp to something large with a heavy weight. Are you telling me that the ebay AI  / algorithm can predict every size and weight of every item. I don't know what ebay are thinking of. They are destroying a marketplace people have used for decades

[akemp1]

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@a-tin-man wrote:

Why on earth do ebay keep messing about with things they obviously have no idea about.

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Because they have so little respect, understanding or perspective of the real world they don't even realise or care about what they don't know. To them it's all numbers and computers and massive greed for profits. They think everyone is like them and can easily adapt to these changes. Or if it's not easy then frankly it's not their problem. They need to get out more, or at least be less arrogant and be cautious about what they might not understand.