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.

[welshjoskin]

I imagine if the buyer pays for it will be them who has paid not you as the seller. If the seller ignores the label and goes to the post office themselves they should only have paid one lot of postage. Personally I would pay for the postage myself rather than use Stupid Special Needs Delivery. 

[technthread]

Cheers I’ll go back to that page and dig a bit deeper. 

[edwardian-dreams]

With SD you don’t get charged for the SD label that buyers paid fof

ebay buys it from Royal Mail or evri 

unless you offered free postage 

free postage  under SD means eBay supplying their label for you to use 

If a buyer has paid for postage and you don’t use that label they get it refunded

youre then left to get the money back off the buyer for the money you spent to send a different independent way 

not sure how that works though 

but you don’t get charged twice 

[treemas]

I agree. Hardly any sales to post.

[treemas]

If you go to the simple delivery section press 1 kilo button. This opens options for parcel weight. Scroll to the bottom to 20 kilos, there is a tab tab that reads custom postage. Click on that and you have the Royal Mail selection. Hope this helps.

[the_book_seekers]

If a buyer has paid for postage and you don’t use that label they get it refunded

youre then left to get the money back off the buyer for the money you spent to send a different independent way 

not sure how that works though 

I doubt very much that ebay will provide any means for sellers to reclaim money from buyers if the seller steps outside Simple Delivery. It'll be like INRs where the buyer gets a refund and then the package turns up - ebay offers no assistance and the seller has to depend on the buyer being willing to pay up. 

[gmij1961]

Buyer Protection Fee will seriously impact  the sale of lower priced item as it no until you go beyond £20 that the BPF  below 10% at £10 its closer to 20%.

As a buyer , for  stuff I would be interested in for my own collection , I have  only bought 1 item since January . In term of buying things I would consider restoring and then selling , I haven't bought anything as although selling prices are lower for job lot items ,  there is no point buying thing to sell if things don't sell . I have never bought so little  from Ebay in 22 years . The only things I have bought are bits and pieces for domestic use 

Higher priced items I look at tend to attract bids  but unless I want them purely for my collection it just not worth  me bidding now. 

This year I was going to concentrate mainly on thinning down my collection but I am just going to sit tight for now . I am not going to start selling  until  after the summer . Hopefully Ebay will have come to their senses by then !

I have never known Ebay to be this flat 

[edwardian-dreams]

Well they will just have to set something up 

like make a claim for postage label that wasn’t used

its not rocket science 

or they could make it not necessary in the first place 

[p123dvd]

Hello, a similar thing has happened to me today. It seems as a business seller today I'm unable to send anything via a Royal mail letter under 100g (0.87p). Can someone tell me why this is happening, it's just so confusing. 

[theelench]

IMO you're paying £70 for free listing and re-listing.  That works well if you have thousands of items to sell (like stamps).

I'm selling off my glass collection and it's taken me years of rather leisurely listing to list a couple of hundred items, so the fee is of little value.  See my earlier post as to how I list/pay.  Both also give the PP checkout.

Last year on ebay I listed about 50 items, sold 4 with 13.2%(?) fees.

The other site I sold 28 items. 10p to list each one + 5%FVF (Not on P&P) + PP  (2.8%?).

But FAR more important to me is that it is far and away a better selling experience over there than it has been on ebay for years.

Also very important is the fact that buyers can find and buy my stuff there  --  The search is strictly Key  Word based-- NOT rigged to favour those who pay bribes to ebay.

[sml192]

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@gmij1961 wrote:

Buyer Protection Fee will seriously impact  the sale of lower priced item as it no until you go beyond £20 that the BPF  below 10% at £10 its closer to 20%.

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I think you need to check your maths.  The BPF on £10 is 11.2% in total so nowhere near 20%.

[lamulady2]

I have around 1200 items!! Mostly books with some collectables, china etc & surplus CDs' mostly jazz, some classical.  I have listed these over 7 years,  selling some of course on the way, possibly 150 items a year, adding more along the way!!
It has taken this dinosaur user a long time to do it all, especially the photographs. I would dearly love to sell a few more items but do not know which to go for, & how one lists etc. How can I find an alternative? 

[sunflowers4me59]

Perhaps it's just a glitch cos eBay separated 2nd class letter from large letter 2nd class RM for private sellers with this stupid delivery, but if they have messed it up for business sellers as well, they really are messing everything up.

[lamulady2]

I also am very muddled about this label thing & who pays for postage. Are they automatically deducting postage, whether you buy it from them or not, I haven't checked all my orders from last week...all 2  of them, as to where I obtained my postage. 2 of this weeks have been post free anyway for various reasons. I want to continue buying from Royal mail especially if EBay have quoted the incorrect postage as originally decreed by myself. Some items are 5-6 years old & postage has changed many times since then & also cost of the tracked services have been reduced fairly recently, which I use for anything at all pricey.

[lamulady2]

That medium parcel thing is adding insult to injury...I think that I have spotted a few anomalies on my latest entries but not taken much notice of it. I have yet to have an order which is straight forward since they suddenly removed our ability to charge our own postage. I am awaiting another order so that I can check more closely. I am *bleep*ed however if I am tied to this iniquitous controlling...I have far too many items to move to another seller.

[edwardian-dreams]

Hi eBay are not charging medium size parcel prices for small parcels under 2kg

Medium size prices (ok overcharged here scandalously as they only have 2-15kg choice) are only getting charged if you click over 2kg

[lamulady2]

Flaming Henry........it looks as if it is still open to choice...either use SD or buy your labels directly from Royal mail? When I listed a few more items this last week I noticed that it gave ONLY the SD & nowhere to find our own postage.  It also states that it is the BUYERS who can choose their method of postage.(which looks to be a lie)...which has often prevented me from using EBay labels as the postage level was incorrect or I wanted to send tracked & it was not "ticked"..so I had the usual red notice about inability of them posting  blah blah blah. So I wd just shrug & go direct which takes a little more effort.  What is their point I wonder in making it so difficult?

[lamulady2]

good to see someone with the moral obligation for a refund!!  I am actually offering my customers a refund of the "Buyer protection" thing as, much of the time,  it is far less than what they took as "fees",  so consider myself fortunate to have had nearly 6 months without charge..& it gives much goodwill to ones' buyers. .but are they still allowing preloved clothes for free?  don't worry about answering that one!!
I am just praying that I will manage these new inhibitions they are producing.

[lamulady2]

Apologies but this bird brain cannot work out SM........?

[lamulady2]

Good luck...check that they do not charge you postage as in SD if you use RM to buy labels......