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.

[sebastian4ever]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isDRWO3q5io

[smallplant93]

I am joining you as a business seller since 2004 will no longer be using the eBay platform.

[sebastian4ever]

I posted link but the grown ups might remove it.

search reseller George on youtube and video title is 

Is this a genuine eBay conspiracy? promoted listings / impressions / sales ?

[gmij1961]

A reality is many buyers are also sellers . Sellers who will use Ebay to  buy stuff to sell .  It is naive to think private sellers are just purely selling their own stuff . I have always traded stuff  to fund my own expensive hobby which are also the things I like to sell . Ebay has meant that I no longer lose so much money funding an expensive hobby 

While BPF has probably knocked down sale prices as it deters bidders ,  the same will happen when you try to sell .  I haven't bought anything this year with the thought of moving it on 

If you disturb the balance on any market then this is what can happen . Its the difference between proper Economics and shear  business greed . BPF is no different from so called tariffs , its a surcharge on trade  and will kill trade and Ebay is a trading platform .

I get why Ebay  would want to increase revenue and profitably but if you damage your core business it simple will never work and unfortunately those who currently run Ebay seem to know diddly squat about their own business and treat it as a cash cow that is in danger of being  milked to death . 

I won't be selling until at least the autumn,  and if I were to sell on Ebay  again I   would have  to know I have a decent chance of selling for a fair price .  That will change what I sell  and unless I am just getting rid of stuff  to clear space , any lower priced item I.E below £15 is going to be more work than its worth. And that bracket is a massive chunk of the Ebay market 

[diamond_star_2018]

Went to my local post office this morning asked them about simple delivery parcels they told me that over the last 2 weeks they have had hardly any parcels for ebay and people have been saying they have finished with ebay and leaving, why ebay just make the postage optional for simple delivery and you can arrange our own postage from the post office which we have neen doing since when we started on ebay 20 years ago before everbody leaves ebay and goes to other sites. 

And get rid of the buyer protection fee as sales have been dead for the last 2 months, as for me i don't mind being charged a fee for selling it's better than getting no sales buyer protection fee added on to your listing just makes your listing look weird when it comes out something stupid like £73.28.

i have been selling on here for over 15 years and ebay was a great place to sell but changes time after time has made it so stressful and harder to use and simple delivery is the last straw my days on ebay are finished like so many others we have all had enough, with all these seller leaving see how ebays profits will fall

will be going marketplace and carbootsales and fleamarkets lot less stress 

[punzel9072]

That video, based on searching as suggested, is from nine months ago and predates the shambles that eBay have introduced in the last three months. So it doesn't seem relevant to the current discussion...?

[sebastian4ever]

Are you sure?  I thought it was from 12 days ago?

4,740 views 13 Apr 2025

[nickcrow]

Well done! What a brilliant way to circumnavigate the flawed system, just pretend everything you’re selling weighs 20k and then reduce the postage down to what you would normally charge. I’ve tentatively listed a couple of items to see what happens - fingers crossed I can sort of carry on as normal. Thank you for giving me (and others) some hope.

[clearingmyshelves2025]

I've had no emails either. Maybe we're not 'special' enough.

[punzel9072]

Apologies - the same search again has now given me the video that was being referred to. I'll remove my earlier post (if I can). Sorry.
Seems I can't remove it 😞

[sebastian4ever]

No problemo

[sebastian4ever]

Which is also what the Bart Simpson socks on director of special forces read when he met Tony Blair before the Iraq invasion!

[honeymonster007]

Noticed there's a new message that comes next to orders now.

*tracked and fully protected by eBay* or has that always been there? I can't remember seeing it.

Will see what the local postmistress has to say tomorrow, and she doesn't suffer fools gladly... thinking about it might see if the wife wants to go down there just in case 🤔

[forestfeline62]

Our post office in Wh smiths ,has been very quiet since early march ,we used to go in and have to join a long queue ,but these days we can walk straight up to the counter ,and we haven't changed our times . But the staff also said that they too have had many people in who are giving up ebay because they can't cope with all the changes . My partner has tried SD with Evri parcels we don't have smart phones or printers so he has had to transfer the QR code on to his Galaxy tablet and take that down to the parcel drop off shop ,which is in a tesco express ,there is a small machine just inside the door to print labels out on but there is no where to put your parcels whilst you are printing ,so if you have several parcels it is very awkward ,the shop is small as it is, so not much room for people to pass by you so the whole process is not easy if you have several parcels, and making sure you put the right label on the right parcel . We were completely happy before writing addresses on parcels and going to post office and having them put the labels on the parcels ,so smooth and stress free ,this SD delivery is making a lot of work and it isn't SIMPLE .

[forestfeline62]

Yes it says 12 days ago at the bottom of the page the video says 12 days ago 

[trainsairplanesandautomobiles]

Shows how clever they aren't...my listings only go up to the 20kg ,there's no overweight option.

I'm out of here anyway,but just for fun,I listed 'Panavia Tornado fuselage',guess most will know,but just in case,it's an ex RAF  ground attack jet plane.

Is about 54 feet long,weighs roughly 8000kg.

Ebay comes up with delivery by Evri at £2.94.....

Wish I had one to send....

[knightinarmour]

Maybe an unpopular and uncommon viewpoint but I’m happy with simple delivery… and I will tell you why

1) I like EVRI and always use them anyway, mainly because they have better tracking and I don’t have a printer so printing in store is good for me. So I was pleased when I saw Evri was one of the default carriers. 
2) under SD you can edit your postage preference and deselect one you don’t wish to use, in my case Royal Mail.

(The Evri post place (Tesco’s) is nearer to me by miles than the post office and Royal Mail tracking is dreadful - I’ve twice bought thing recently which I have received item but the tracking still says weeks later “on way”)

3) post under SD is cheaper - nearly £2 in some cases of like for like “normal” Evri post, so the overall cost has dropped, off setting the Buyers Protection Fee to some extent (which I don’t agree with by the way). My sales have picked up since SD. 

4) I don’t need to use my money to pay for postage while waiting for the buyers money to ‘clear’ AFTER delivery. I like, same as Vinted, that the postage money is invisible to the seller and never involved. 

5) payment is quicker. If you use SD when it is delivered the 2-day thing is interrupted and you are paid immediately if buyers leaves positive feedback. 
6) postage labels under SD are seriously quicker than normal Evri (which takes a log in, multiple screens and options and keying in and copying addresses and the like. I’m saving 5-10 mins each label. 

SD Evri is slower than normal EVRI though. I have twice sold 2 things on same day that happened to be a mix of old post and new SD. Posted exactly the same time at the same point. On the first instance the SD post arrived 1 day later than the “normal” post. On the second occasion it was 2 days later but I received the money first due to positive feedback. 

in short I like it. 

[lamulady2]

I am trying to decipher how they come to the total that they do & what it means when they say...'£3.44 or what the buyer chooses'.....whaaat?  of course the buyer might choose large letter even though the item is well over 1" (2.5cm)  or well over 1kg...incidentally, on the website, RM give the new weight of large letter..viz 1kg which is going to be of great use,....even though the new price leaflet says only 75ogms.

The postage prices seem to be completely completely off the wall or a case of "think of a number.  And a post free item of which one of mine has been since 15/4 had postage charged bas far as I can work out.  Their BPF was more than the post so my customer had some sort of recompense.

If we don't kick against this we are all going to lose quite a lot of money. It would be far less complicated for them to re-introduce some sort of fee paying & go back to the way we had before October. we had 6 months of interest free selling. I have been refunding their BPF anyway out of moral indignation,  the lower priced goods BPF is nearly 20% which is horrendous..
Many of my listings go back 7 years as they are weird titles (books), unheard of, or else I am too pricey...(I value my items!!)....I have 1200 items in all.....how many hours in the day am I going to have to find to change my riders to allow for explanation for this/these new EBay edicts?  I have done a few whilst scrolling through for various reasons...I will turn my toes up before I manage to get through them all. As for removing said 1200 items to a new outlet......No Way Jose. It took me AGES to learn EBay 7 years ago,  it will take me far too long to learn another outlet.   Nightmare.......Rant over
Via

[edwardian-dreams]

This is all very well

i too am not fussed if rm postage is the same

But they’re deciding small cheap things over 100g must go at inflated prices because they have to be tracked as if most buyers are crooks 

the roll out of it has been abysmal negligent and incompetent no one can say otherwise

[aymanalvi]

All ebay users are bound to accept the scam of BP and SD. I agree with Lumlady.