NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY

[rugbyguy1960]

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.

[lotsofthingys]

Thanks andyf117.
That looks incredibly complicated and appears to be tailored for combined items rather than multiples of the same item.

[rugbyguy1960]

It's a nightmare. Sellers should be able to choose the best postal option that suits them. I used to pay RM online for my postage and chose their collect service so they collected from my home. I'd never use evri.

[infohelps]

Well, you are  entitled to your opinion, and I obviously respect that .  But as they say "Read the room".  It is down to perception, and that is how so many of us feel.   So if eBay didn't intend us to feel that, it has a serious PR problem to address along with  tweaking all its unhelpful practices.. I saw a lady in the post office today who said she was posting off her last ebay parcels due to the (and I quote), "utter contempt shown to private sellers who built the company up."  So there you go.  As I said, if the main problem is businesses posing as private sellers, why not focus attention on that problem.  eBay appears to be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, so we are left with the feeling that the loss of genuine private sellers is acceptable collateral damage. 

[raspli-0]

I've just noticed this in the SD FAQs:

"If your buyer has purchased more than one item from you in a single transaction, you’ll receive one prepaid label for posting your items to them. You can only use the label provided once. 

If your buyer has purchased items from you in different transactions, you’ll receive separate postage labels to post each of the items."

This could potentially mean added packaging expenses which weren't considered when putting individual items up for sale. How is that fair?

[andha-21]

@raspli-0 

They are advising sellers that they incorporate packing costs into item price.

Which doesn't exactly hurt them as they get a percentage of any increase.

[rugbyguy1960]

I do hope you manage to get things sorted out though.

[heglo_59]

I've just triple checked and I've definitely got Evri deactivated but it's coming up at £2.94 for some changed listings on SD. What's the friggin point then in having options, very few anyway, then they don't work. Teething problems??..... 

[sunflowers4me59]

Well this was odd! As I said, I've put all my listing's over 100g on collection only last Sunday. Now I haven't sold anything since 25th March. Today I had bids on 2x items by same buyer, so I contacted her to ask if she knew they were collection, (no she didn't realise). So after chat, I cancelled the 2 listing's and tried to put both as 1 listing and custom postage, 200g RM, £2.50 to get it posted at post office the old fashioned way. And it let me!! + I was also able to do an invoice. I am so confused as to what is happening today.

[rugbyguy1960]

The teething problems have been going on since not long after it was announced that it was being made compulsory 😨.

[andha-21]

@heglo_59 

As I've mentioned many times before, eBay did a simultaneous press release when they told sellers could choose courier.

The other release was that they could override any choice the seller made and then they updated terms and conditions to include that.

The seller ability to choose courier is something akin to a fantasy.

The ability to deselect Royal Mail should have told everyone something was rotten. They are the only courier with full UK coverage. 

Almost like eBay are encouraging postcode discrimination.

[jonatjonatjonat]

but in what way does any of that suggest business sellers have animosity to genuine private sellers?

[raspli-0]

Yes, I have always done that, but the issue is what could happen in a combined order. 

I include the cost towards packaging each item in its price. Or not – maybe I plan to re-use packaging that has only been used once before and is still in good condition.

Now suppose someone buys multiple items from me in one transaction. None of the packaging materials I already have or had planned to buy are suitable. I have to go out and buy whatever extra is needed, at extra expense. That I didn’t plan for, and can’t plan for, because I have no idea what combination of items someone might buy. 

I once sold two dozen magazines to the same person. It worked out cheapest to put two or three per envelope taking into account the value.

If SD was in force back then I would have had to go and buy a cardboard box to put them all in – I don’t keep suitable boxes to hand, because the odds of one person bulk buying is so rare. 

That’s just one scenario off the top of my head. As a private seller I can’t bulk buy packaging materials and get them for pennies each. 

[rugbyguy1960]

It would be great if a new UK platform started up.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Why did OnBuy not take off?

[andha-21]

I totally get where you're coming from and I've been a vocal opponent to Simple Delivery since Feb 3rd. I knew it would cause problems especially with combined orders.

As for your example the only way to avoid that now is selling predetermined bulk lots.

I'm not happy either but it's the only safe move forward for us in those regards now.

[rugbyguy1960]

Really don't know. There are a few options about but it's finding one that might work for me when I sell from my collection to make room for new things.

[havewillsell]

Finished on ebay  after about 20 years,  just one "collection only" item left.

Nothing selling these days and I certainly don't need this new postage hassle!

"B Y E  BYE  EVERYBODY"  as Mr Corbett would say....

[rugbyguy1960]

I'm sorry that you are another user that these changes have affected.

[wintersdawn1]

I purchased something on ebay last night and it was on simple delivery as the postage options said 'standard' and 'express'.  I couldn't see who the courier for each was only the price.

I paid for standard delivery and it was only then that I saw it was evri.  The price was £2.94 so I believe that whenever a buyer sees a standard postage price of £2.94 evri is the courier?

[rugbyguy1960]

Glad to see you back and thanks for posting that info.