More New Policy Changes Coming

[rugbyguy1960]

Not all totally bad news this time.

Opt in/opt out and eligibility

Can I opt out of Simple Delivery?

Yes, you can opt out of Simple Delivery when you’re creating the listing. 

For now great news. One that needs to be heeded is:

Without limiting other remedies, we may limit, suspend, or terminate your user account(s) and access to our Services, restrict or prohibit access to, and your activities on, our Services, cancel bids, remove or demote or otherwise restrict the visibility of listings, delay or remove hosted content, remove any special status associated with the account, reduce or eliminate any discounts, and take technical and legal steps to keep you from using our Services if:

we think that you are creating problems or possible legal liabilities for us, our users, suppliers or other third parties.

My query is: does ebay now holding a sellers funds slightly come under the profiteering umbrella.

[**peaseblossom**]

They've always said we can opt out of SD but the CEO has also said (not currently on any official guidelines) that it will be compulsory in the first quarter of this year, so by the end of March.  

[rugbyguy1960]

I had heard that but there is no mention of that in the info received today regarding the policy changes coming in March.

[doumind_7]

"we think that you are creating problems or possible legal liabilities for us, our users, suppliers or other third parties."

 I read into that unfavourable comments on these threads of which there are 100s. They've likely got spies out on here anyway.

"My query is: does ebay now holding a sellers funds slightly come under the profiteering umbrella."

I'm not a legal expert but its morally wrong and grossly unfair on users. And yes they get interest to make up for their cockups on removing commission fees from private sellers. Now trying to make that up via the back door.

[**peaseblossom**]

Maybe they've had a rethink.  I hope so because that's the thing that'll put me off.

[rugbyguy1960]

I made a point of reading through the changes coming from the notification I received a little while ago today from ebay.

If it remains like that then great.

[bittyboy101]

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@**peaseblossom** wrote:

Maybe they've had a rethink.  I hope so because that's the thing that'll put me off.

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Maybe heII's finally frozen over ? !!!

The folks at eBay really need to keep Managed Delivery optional and ensure that ALL of their users are happy again instead of putting FEAR in everyone and scaring people off selling as normal on their platform which is not good for eBay in the long run.   

[rugbyguy1960]

Thanks for the response.

I just think that by ebay actually putting the sespension/removal thing in the new policy updates coming in March it can only be taken as a warning to members.

[rugbyguy1960]

I have always been led to believe that Freedom Of Speech is legal and a person's right in the UK.

As for the US and other countries I'm not so sure.

[bittyboy101]

I'm offline now so will catch up later on tonight and support you   👍

[rugbyguy1960]

Have a good day 

[vinylscot]

You only need to take a few minutes looking at these threads to find dozens of comments defaming eBay.

Nobody is curtailing free speech here, but there are limits, and posters need to bear in mind that there may be consequences following on from posting falsehoods. 

Many erroneous posts are unintentional, posters posting from a position of ignorance, but those who double down on easily disprovable nonsense, and demonstrable falsehoods, surely leave themselves open to well-deserved sanctions.

A couple of very heavy volume posters have disappeared from these boards in the last few days, not the sort of people to walk away quietly. Perhaps eBay is quite correctly becoming proactive in dealing with those who constantly seek to run the company down with baseless allegations and outright falsehoods.

[crafty_cat_lover]

Freedom of speech is a person's right in the UK but that doesn't mean it is freedom of speech without consequences.

[rugbyguy1960]

I agree with what you say about falsehoods but if it is something off new policy changes announced by ebay then freedom of speech counts.

[papso22]

Do you have a link to that announcement?  I can't find it.

[vinylscot]

I'm sorry, I can make no sense of that statement in message #14. Could you proof-read it please.

[vinylscot]

I got an email at 10:08 advising of changes to the eBay user agreement. I think that's what he means.

[rugbyguy1960]

I received it in my messages/notifications within the last couple of hours.

I'll try sorting a link for you.

[papso22]

Found it now.  It does indeed have an opt out.  Have ebay been listening?

[rugbyguy1960]

That is what I meant.

A lot of user agreement things are part of policies.

Wrong choice of wording by mistake by me but user agreement/policy changers do tend to happen quite frequently.