Just catching up on the eBay scandal. Remember, folks;
eBay says the seller may be responsible for refunding the buyer the original shipping costs, even though that shipping amount is not paid to the seller.
Private sellers are also being forced into having a handling time of no more than 3 business days.
(It's a 12 mile round trip to the post office where I live. No Evri or any other courier. I'm partially sighted, partially disabled and the bus comes once an hour. Which is why I chose 5 days, so I only had to make the trip once a week.) Disability discrimination, right there. I used eBay as a way of boosting my small pension, but looks like it's back to the foodbank, for me.
eBay are onto a money spinner because they set the price for your delivery charge but if they negotiate a cheaper deal with the courier, as they will have done, they keep the difference.
They're obviously prepping for bad publicity as there is an 'article' on the Daily Mirror website today, which has obviously been written by eBay. Say what you like about The Sun, but at least they published a balanced, online article yesterday.
"But eBay users have slammed the change, describing it as “eBay’s most ridiculous move ever”.
"Sellers have said they will need to travel further to drop items at courier points, which will make the process more complicated."
"Meanwhile, experts have previously told The Sun that the change risks forcing vulnerable and sellers to pay more to post items to their buyer."
The more bad publicity, the better.
