31-03-2025 10:45 AM
AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.
I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.
15-04-2025 10:38 AM
What Trump is doing to other countries, ebay is doing to its private sellers.
That is adding a levy on buyers, effectively taxing sales and enforcing unwanted changes. No negotiation, no consideration just do it our way or else get out.
In Trump's case he might relent in certain circumstances. With ebay I doubt they will row back on anything.
15-04-2025 10:45 AM
No sign of any changes to my listing, its almost as if the powers that be have buried their heads in the sand and hope for it to blow over.
How the F can you run a global business and not communicate with a core income stream.
15-04-2025 10:53 AM - edited 15-04-2025 10:57 AM
Its safe to say ebay is consistent when it comes to confusing users.
D Day is here and we still don't know how SD is mandatory when you can still see custom option.
15-04-2025 11:08 AM
Could I ask who you are now using, without saying them straight out 😄 they sound like maybe?? 👍🏼😄
15-04-2025 11:09 AM
Based on what?
15-04-2025 11:16 AM
It is a lot of views for sure, but it isn't the number of people that you might think it is.
The count increases each time the thread is opened including re-visits by any person. So, it could be 100, 1,000 or 10,000 individual people - none of us really knows, but I would guess it is likely to be towards the lower end of the scale.
15-04-2025 11:36 AM
Lower end of the scale yes but just the tip of an increasingly large iceberg I would say.
Titanic you say?
15-04-2025 11:40 AM
I think we can imagine a conversation the ebay UK boardroom.
"Hey! We've got 1000s of sellers leaving..." - Underling.
"Argh they are just little losers. Plenty more fish in the sea. - Big Boss.
15-04-2025 11:47 AM
I don't see much comfort in that.
It's like having the sword of Damocles hanging over us.
Or it would be if anyone was still listing. I think most on here have given up because they are tired of these tedious ebay tactics and see no future on the platform.
Sick of it.
15-04-2025 11:54 AM
In a lot of cases I've brought things lately from other places and they've actually been as cheap or even slightly cheaper. Plus the service received is far greater.
15-04-2025 11:59 AM
Time for the April 15th Limerick
A site that we all know called eBay
Has got us all talking it seems
It's not hard to conceive
Just how many will leave
Due to eBay's unpopular schemes
15-04-2025 11:59 AM
Today was the deadline for Eve Williams to prove she was actually listening to her customers that she falsely claims on her inane posts.
If she had a half a brain she would have realised it is one thing forcing a properly testing and working system but forcing a bug ridden ill though out system is reckless arrogant incompetence on her part , she is in charge and she is the one telling people how wonderful " Simple Delivery" is .
As a customer the imposition of Simple Delivery is one thing but the way she is ignoring valid concerns is simple rude and very annoying . So for me it no longer an issue about not selling on Ebay , its a making sure Ebay get rid of the person and people who have caused this issue and that won't be as difficult as they think given their brain dead vision . Given I am no longer selling I now have free time to this like many of us , to pursue this . I will be emailing any sellers business or private as to why I can't bid on buy their items any more.
Even if this is a cynical ploy to get rid of private sellers , without private sellers Ebay lose a core value to attract buyers . many private sellers are also the buyers that Ebay platform rely on .
Who is actually acting in Ebay's bets long term interest Eve Williams or her disenchanted customers on this post that she is ignoring !
15-04-2025 12:01 PM
Business sellers are bound to be hit when the majority of sellers left are other business sellers.
15-04-2025 12:09 PM
Very good. I think we've now entered uncharted territory even after all the recent changes we've all experienced.
15-04-2025 12:10 PM
I'm straining to think of a situation which compares with this.
Closest I've come so far goes back to Dr "mad axeman" Beeching shutting down the branch lines in the 60s.
He cut the number of trains running so that there were hardly any to catch and just to make sure of destruction raised fares.
Then the transport minister, who owned a motorway construction company, announced that buses, lorries and cars were much better anyway.
Together, Beeching & Marples, with government approval, sold the railways its staff and passengers down the river.
A deliberate policy of destruction. I suggest what ebay is doing is no different.
15-04-2025 12:30 PM
eBay’s new shipping rules are now live. If your eBay account is still set as a private seller, you’ll no longer be able to use Smart Send to ship your eBay orders — they may be rejected* under eBay’s new Simple Delivery policy.
To continue using Smart Send without disruption, you’ll need to switch your eBay account to a business seller. It only takes a few minutes.
15-04-2025 12:31 PM
History has proven on many occasions that trying to be something you're not does not work out well. These changes could work out proving that the grass isn't always greener on the other side but sometimes it's just a mud patch.
15-04-2025 12:34 PM
…and then you can declare all your income to HMRC as you will be liable to pay income tax on it as businesses are required to do!
15-04-2025 12:34 PM
eBay’s new shipping rules are now live If your eBay account is still set as a private seller, you’ll no longer be able to use Smart Send to ship your eBay orders they may be rejected under eBay’s new Simple Delivery policy.
To continue using Smart Send without disruption you’ll need to switch your eBay account to a business seller It only takes a few minutes
15-04-2025 12:35 PM
I think you mean a s**t heap 💩