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]

Yes
And of course a buyer will choose the most expensive option!


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[ladyloki1998]

Obviously that’s going to Happen! It’s crazy 😡
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[a-tin-man]

When listing items in the past week or two i have had a choice of custom postage or simple delivery which obviously i have chosen custom delivery.  Today i have listed an item into draft and when selecting postage simple delivery has now disappeared. I have tried another 3 times with other items and again under postage simple delivery has disappeared.  What is now going on  now ? 

[johnwash1]

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@leanderme wrote:

Thanks for that johnwash1. 

I just went there, and voted thumbs down.  

I also added the following (see below) as to my reasons for bein anti Simple Delivery. 

Anyone who finds the below useful please feel free to use it yourselves and also feel free to edit, and indeed to add it, as I know it is not exhaustive and does not come near to capturing all of the salient objections to Simple Delivery that have been raised in this thread.

eBay will only rethink this if enough of us complain.

12 Reasons not to make Simple Delivery mandatory.

[SNIP wall of text]

Is this what eBay wants?

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Nice try, and I'm inclined to agree with you, but practice your "elevator pitches", i.e. you step into the lift and the CEO is there, you have 30 seconds to pitch your CV and why you're super-employable.

Even AI is going to struggle to summarise all that.  And ebay staffers sure aren't going to take it on board.  Sorry.

[johnwash1]

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@forestfeline62 wrote:

The little independent Post Offices are the losers here as they are paid on a comission basis ,so all items that people take there with simple delivery ,the PO staff don't get any money from them ,our little independent PO is thinking of closing because the bit of money they were making has been taken from them ,life if hard enough as it is now ,but this simple delivery is going to kill services communities rely on like Post Offices because of sheer greed 

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To be fair, that's not ebay's fault.  During Covid many many people, myself included, discovered Royal Mail would collect from your home at no extra charge, and the online prices were even slightly cheaper than over the counter.  So if you're going to blame anyone for screwing PO staff, blame RM.  RM and the PO used to be same organisation until someone had a brainwave and split them.  And let's not get started on Horizon, masses of compensation still pending.  The PO has been shafted from all directions, ebay is just a pinprick.

[fuelsandlubes]

They couldn't care less about making postage as cheap as possible. Why would they? At the end of the day it's about charging you more for postage than they're paying Evri/RM/Whoever else to deliver it. They clean up on the difference between the two. 

[johnwash1]

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@forestfeline62 wrote:

Watch out for size and weight of your items because ebay are sending out the wrong postage labels for people to put on their parcels and this info came from our local PO they said simple delivery has been a nightmare because ebay are only going by weight and not true size so they have had to reject several parcels because the price was wrong .

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Good point.  And I wonder how flooded the CS lines will be with people moaning about that and demanding something is done about it, seeking recompense.

[sml192]

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@ladyloki1998 wrote:
Yes
And of course a buyer will choose the most expensive option!


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According to the help page if the buyer selects 'Express' delivery then they get charged for the label instead of the seller.   Presumably the seller would still receive the full listed price? 

If your buyer selects an express delivery service instead, they'll pay the full delivery cost and you won't be charged.

[parsley2003]

Yes SD means the buyer pays Ebay and they send the seller the label. Buyer chooses between standard and express and most would choose standard probably

[ladyloki1998]

I had the opposite experience…. Only simple posting was available…. And even that kept glitching! I hate the whole thing now 😡

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[sml192]

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@parsley2003 wrote:

Yes SD means the buyer pays Ebay and they send the seller the label. Buyer chooses between standard and express and most would choose standard probably

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Yes, I know that.  My post and the one I responded to was in response to one  about offering Free postage with Simple Delivery.

If a seller offers Free postage and the buyer selects 'Standard' delivery then the seller is charged for the label but if the buyer selects 'Express' delivery then the buyer is charged instead. 

[andha-21]

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Postage/Simple-Delivery/m-p/7815700#M58819

Another user that may only have SD options

If so, that's 3 posts already today.

They may have started already.

[g1dgl]

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@wintersdawn1 wrote:

This said about the low value items:

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OK, that seems reasonably clear, my electronic components rarely weigh more than 5g and many sell for less than £10.

Question:  What about multi-quantity sales?  If I list "£8 each, Quantity 10" and someone buys two then clearly I will be over the £10 limit.  Does so called "Simple Delivery" then automatically kick in?

[andha-21]

Can private sellers still do multi quantity sales?

I thought that was only business sellers now.

[g1dgl]

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@andha-21 wrote:

Can private sellers still do multi quantity sales?

I thought that was only business sellers now.

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Only business sellers can create multi-quantity discounts, but multi-quantity listing is available to everyone.

Note for business sellers:  I am selling off old electronic components which I purchased and was given when I was a student 40 years ago.  Many are in boxes of a dozen or so thus I create multi-quantity listings.  I am selling off unwanted personal possessions and am therefore a genuine Private seller.

[andha-21]

Fair enough, I didn't know that.

[acest82]

Like you I like keeping my local PO in business 

[thetrackz]

It's so predictable that ebay would use AI slop to work out parcel size and weight - and get it completely wrong. 

I can see this being a major issue going forward.

But then again they'll just blame the sellers.

In ebayworld, ebay is never wrong.

[ladyloki1998]

Correct, and if the qr code is for the wrong postage regarding size and weight…. The post office will add a charge before it can be delivered!
Also…. Like so many…. My sales in March, since the so called BUYER PROTECTION, which is just a silly charge…. Have dipped over 50%!
It will only get worse, now with this stupid new, so called SIMPLE POSTAGE.
I wish, they would just go back to the 10% fee per sale, and get their money that way.

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[prelovedtreasures-3]

Well I’ve already gone on time away and paused sales. For I don’t want to be part of this farce. Nor do I want negative repercussions directed at me for eBay’s tomfoolery.

No thank you. Until this has been straightened out and everything is calm again. Maybe I’ll unpause the sales. But for the time being every 30 days I’ll renew the pause sales.

I can handle my own postage perfectly fine