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.

[technthread]

100%. I really love listing on V compared to here. Irrelevant item specifics do my head in. eBay tell me my descriptions are too short but I don’t want to use AI, I’ve never had any buyer issues with my way. 

[technthread]

I love that £2.29 price. I’ve listed vases and things weighing 5kg and I have put in my description to buyers a note to use InPost as the price can’t be matched anywhere else. 

[akemp1]

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@wellingnorth wrote:

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But also you seem to able to buy most things with inPost store to store for £2.29 - I think if comparable rates were available with Simple Delivery ebay might have more sellers actually wanting to use it!

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Yeah that's super cheap and for some reason they seemed to give it to me free a few times even on low value items. The problem I had when collecting was the lady my local petrol station made it clear she really didn't want to be dealing with my parcel and made me stand aside while she served all the customers behind me in the queue first.

Now when ordering I just pay the RM rate, where the seller offers RM, to save the hassle it seems to be at the RM published price so much cheaper than SD RM. Maybe the other place are getting a hidden incentive from RM but as long as I am not paying more than RM standard price that's OK with me.

[welshjoskin]

So if you are prepared to wait 14 days for payment you can override stupid delivery by just sending an item yourself and sitting it out for a fortnight? 

[technthread]

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@cz7373 wrote:

£70 fee = 0% fee but no thumbnail, 2% fee have a thumbnail on the listing. Both options still let you have pictures on the "Items" own page. No fee taken off of the postage. Have up to 5 "Stores".

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Ah right I get it now, thanks. I misunderstood that bit of the fee structure.

[aymanalvi]

Ebay should be reading all these threads, if they are not then someone needs to alert the CEO. What are they doing to the platform that once used to be fun place to sell stuff. Now its all about control. 

[akemp1]

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@technthread wrote:

The buying side is very good actually and they made it better by allowing bundles by not making the seller confirm a parcel size. I lost a few good buys as the seller didn’t respond in time under the old system. It also seems like buyers are more likely to add impulse buys in to a bundle than on here.  

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As a buyer at the other site the way they show the % bundle discount it offsets a lot of their combined buyer tax so it kinds feels like if I buy a few items from the same seller then I am not paying the buyer tax or at least only a few pennies. On a bundle I am basically paying the total price the items were listed at with combined postage. A great buyer experience and a great seller experience as they get to sell a few things at once.

[forestfeline62]

Our local main post office has at last started to accept SD parcels they say that people are being charged more for the label than the parcel weight and dimensions really are . So people are being charged for a medium parcel rather than it being a small parcel . But they will also reject parcels if there isn't enough postage on them .Items being sent with royal mail to overseas buyers using global shipping the Post office staff will ask you if it is an ebay parcel and they put a special sticker on it to identify it incase  there is a problem further along the journey .Once the parcel has reached the global shipping depot ,the sellers job is over and ebay take responsible for it after that .My partner has sent quite a few items overseas in the last 2 weeks especially to italy and france and there has been no problems items have been  delivered  and my partner has had notice from ebay to confirm that the item has been delivered .

[crn303]

Will eBay not take the cost of the printed label off your sales even though
you go and do your own postage with Royal Mail. Surely you are paying out
for 2 lots of postage.

Please tell me if I am wrong. Thank you

[sunflowers4me59]

I thought I would try to list a draft as RM large letter 2nd class custom postage, under 100g/£10 as Marco said it was allowed. It wouldn't let me. Each time I had clicked done or save, it went back for me try again. I also tried as a letter, the same happened. It just won't let me do either! The choice of letter and large letter have separated like eBay said would happen today. I'm just confused, they seem to be changing their minds every 5 minutes.

[wintersdawn1]

I think it would spook the ebay shareholders if they spent a bit of time on this forum lately.

Although only a small fraction of ebay users frequent this forum it doesn't mean that everybody else is happy about things, they just might not know about the forum to vent their frustrations.  They might be unhappy and be silently walking away from ebay.

[papso22]

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@crn303 wrote:
Will eBay not take the cost of the printed label off your sales even though
you go and do your own postage with Royal Mail. Surely you are paying out
for 2 lots of postage.

Please tell me if I am wrong. Thank you

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The SD label is not part of the seller's sales.  If they choose to buy their own label, they pay for that out of the sale proceeds (which don't include the SD label).

They therefore pay for the label out of what the buyer paid for the item, and get less at the end of the day than if they used the SD label.

Ebay will not deduct the cost of any postage bought direct from RM, from the sales proceeds, but will do if the postage was bought through ebay, if that is still an option.

[keeshyakat]

Does it matter what date we leave as my sales have now nose-dived to a big fat zero !!!

[gmij1961]

I was just tempted to start listing items that should never sell . Its genuinely free to list and Ebay have a cost to host your listings . 🙂

As a form of protest it could actually be effective  as its a form of free advertising  and you all ways use some carefully chosen words in the listing

[welshjoskin]

How would I as a seller be paying out of the sale proceeds if I took my own earnt money (from work not sales of ebay odds and ends) to the post office and handed it over the counter? Just completely bypass the ebay label. 

[edwardian-dreams]

It’s so cool listing on there

they don’t ask you what length sleeve something has and after you’ve filled in the specific (if they did ask)  to say it’s sleeveless they then don’t ask you to say what type of sleeve it has 🤣🤣

nor does it say what era is your item

then ask what time frame was it

then what blimmin year it was made in

then is it vintage?

is it antique?

err if it was made in 1970 then no it’s not antique…do your own donkey work 

think eBay went OTT on all that 

the one that gets me every time is what character is it?

im selling a ladies dress

its not Spider-Man or anything like that 

but it tells me I’ve not filled in all the relevant specifics 

[gmij1961]

They really should  be reading all the threads.

The revenue  Ebay have earnt from me since they announced "Free to Sell " in September has reduced by 99.66% compared to the  same period last year.  Plus I also haven't contributed to an sales that generate BPF  as I stopped  selling just before BPF for other reasons.

While  for other Seller probably won't the lose the same % revenue per private seller is still probably above 80% for most and there is little chance BPF or SD will recoup any where near that . 

I would guess with the cartel deals they have with SD they probably stand to get at least 10% of any label they sell , but that's meaningless if sales through fall through the floor

Those kind of figures  should make any business  and their backers shudder to the core 

[crn303]

What if the buyer pays for and wants to use SD (example buyer chooses evri
who I will not use).
Don’t eBay charge me the seller for the label even if I don’t print it off
to use and it’s cost is taken from my selling funds even though I go and
send item using my local post office and paying post office for stamps out
of my pocket.
Looks like I am paying postage twice.

Sorry if I am missing something here. Thanks.

[keeshyakat]

That is assuming that the private sellers are getting sales as everyone else I've seen on here myself including is complaining that their sales & viewers/offers etc have now totally died 

[theelench]

READ all the selling options.  Silver seller, use Platinum listings (5p + 5% FVF).  If you decide to continue, re-read the Up-grade FAQs.  There is a way to re-activate the £70 offer if you read carefully.