Ebay's new buyer protection scam

[wayne15071965]

So I have been a seller on and off her since June 2001, Over the years I have sent items recorded delivery that either never turn up , or arrive with no notification of delivery.  Now someone wants to charge a buyer a fee for safe delivery, when they would have been charged that in the P&P cost.  Frankly it sounds more like a scam than customer service and Ebay are also trying to force us to use their shipping option, So much for free enterprise, sound like trying to get the monopoly on delivery as well.  As for hanging on the sellers cash til 2 days after delivery, really so post office goes on strike and you don't get paid, Think I may start looking to leave. So much for eBay's loyalty to us .

[ripface]

Not in our rural location. Being unable to choose courier other than eVri or RM is a real pain for us and I would imagine a lot of other people .....

[newsgood2]

I live in Hay-On-Wye on the Welsh Borders and it's a small town, but just checked in a Google search and Evri and the post office have done a deal and you may find as I did much to my surprise that my local Post Office now accepts parcels for sending, collecting and returning parcels.

[jophoenix63]

Definitely. Po does not take evri so have to drive

[newsgood2]

Just did further search on Google about Google saying one thing and Evri another and Google now says that although it says that Hay-On-Wye accepts Evri parcels etc., that it is not actually the case. And Keir Starmer wants AI to be big in the UK. It already is big, and useless.

[fejinwales]

It is a scam because packages are insured anyway, (especially for sellers like myslf who always chose an insured option). Not only that, the seller is also affected. I always price my sales for the ammount I want to clear in my bank account. So I used to be able to put a price of, say £50 on an item and with free selling I'd spend £3 on shipping (as I always pay for shipping) and would get my target of £47 back in the bank. Now putting an item on for £50 bumps it up to £53 for the seller so they are less likely to purchase it. Effectively they are being charged shipping twice.

Nothing is ever for free. They got rid of the charges for sales (good for the seller), because they realised they could make way more money off the buyers than from the old seller fees. 

[kevin.yarnfield.uk]

I have been on ebay since 2000. Most of my items are priced from 50p upwards (stamps). As a consequence of "Buyer protection fee" a 50p stamp now starts at 50p + 75p + 4% (BPF). Some clown's answer is "Upgrade to business seller". I sell so little, especially now with BPF added that it would not be worth my while. It's getting to the point that ebay do not want small sellers like myself. I've now stopped buying from private GB sellers. So tell me, how is this going to benefit ebay.

When I post an item, the postage charge includes "protection" in that I can refund the buyer and claim from Royal Mail. That's protection.

[sebastian4ever]

What a bloody mess.

[chababachababa]

It so is.
I have sold through Simple Delivery only to find my buyer can’t pay me and I can’t send the item. No fault of any of us. Only EBay can sort it. They should be contacting me about this. I have a ticket number from IT but it’s two days now and no contact.
They won’t let me send it out to the buyer after they pay me directly to my bank account.
We both loose out !!!

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[achathamchild]

Does ebay read any of this,  I wonder if they have any comments about it all,  it's certainly ruffled a lot of feathers 🪶 

[sew1412]

You couldn't make it up, could you?Sent from my Galaxy

[chababachababa]

I’m sure they do.
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