Has Custom Postage Now Gone ?

[jactac7]

Please can someone offer some advice.

I've read that we can opt out of the Simple Delivery and still use Custom postage but I cant see the Custom Postage option anymore when adding a listing ?

I've tried this on new listings, revising a listing, listing a similar item, and on listings under £10.

Is there still a way of using Custom Postage or has it completely gone ?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

[jonatjonatjonat]

If you were drop shipping, it sounds like you should be a business anyway. I can’t see why a private seller would be drop shipping.

note whether you are a private seller has nothing to do with the volume of sales. It’s to do with what you are selling. If you are buying, making or growing items specifically to sell them on, you should be a business seller.

Business Seller Fees are here

[thefootyflogger]

So if I become a business seller am I able to sell one-off items around the house or will they also be applicable to fees once I become a business seller?

The majority of items I currently sell are just household items and finds, although dropshipping is something I also want to pursue in the future, even in it's only in very small volume at the start. 

I will have to make a seperate free account if that above is true for my household items. ☝️

Ps thanks for the link.

[jonatjonatjonat]

if you have a mix of items, you can have a business seller account and a private seller account separately yes.

[thefootyflogger]

Okay I'll have to do that then. 

Quite annoying having built up an eBay account for so many years to them start up again. 

Plus logging in and out if I get back into re-selling or dropshipping will likely be highly annoying. 

It seems that eBay's new decision is rather over the top and unnecessary. The other day I sold my old pair of football boots but wasn't able to give the buyer the next day delivery they wanted. Had to sort the deal on Facebook Marketplace which was a bit sketchy.

Thanks for you guidance. It cut through a lot of the misinformation out there. 

[spoonbenderman]

I hate ebay, do they ever listen to private sellers?

Yodel despatcher opposite my house , cheaper than Evri, and now I have to trek to an Evri despatcher a mile away.

What platforms are there to completely slag ebay off?

[thefootyflogger]

That sounds extremely annoying. Did they not think before they made this change?

They must have a partnership with Royal Mail and Evri making them a few extra mill on the side.

I would recommend Vinted as the next biggest selling platform for private sellers. You can use Yodel on there and the listing system they have is quick and better imo. Even the way they handle returns is much fairer and equal.

[dougbat20]

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@spoonbenderman wrote:

I hate ebay, do they ever listen to private sellers?

Yodel despatcher opposite my house , cheaper than Evri, and now I have to trek to an Evri despatcher a mile away.

What platforms are there to completely slag ebay off?

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For me, Evri is cheaper in almost every category (and where Evri does not beat Yodel, Royal Mail does with their Small Parcel size). Plus Evri and Yodel are both about 5 minutes away walking, whereas Yodel is about 30 minutes away.

Yodel are also not very good in my area and I have had issues with Yodel delivering to both my storage locker location, and my work location, when both were closed. Yodel are about as incompetent as they can get so I'm glad they are not an option on eBay anymore, since there was a huge influx of Yodel users when sellers discovered Yodel was cheaper than Evri.

[spoonbenderman]

To be fair they should offer both!