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.

[gmij1961]

The reason why I am still posting here is unlike you , I do believe that this post is a significant thorn in Ebay's side  and a cynical as Ebay may be  they are not totally stupid when dealing with customers .  Without the current debacle Ebay had actually improved their CS hugely from 20 years ago and they have done that for a proven reasons. 

I am quite happy to sit things out until either  Ebay comes to their senses , I find a more acceptable way of selling my stuff, or I just sell things appropriate to what Ebay has made a restrictive market  . My current opinion is Ebay will have to make some significant steps to get out of this mess 

The very real  problem Ebay has which has been over looked and perhaps Ebay has lost sight off , if things don't sell then no one makes any money .  That is also a reality for any seller , things need to sell and Ebay is becoming to look increasingly stale .   

The idea of an auction is to realise the best selling price for an item and one of the best ways to achieve that is to have the lowest start price possible .   The risk is more people will make what they perceive to be  a lose but also more items will run away in terms of bids the more bidders you can attract . So it swings ad round abouts for the seller , but as long as it sells Ebay earn revenue etc . I tend to start my bids at the lowest price I think it will realistically sell for , and if I have some thing that I know will go well or I just want rid  I will go cheaper  .  

I had a look at you site last night and I have to honest its a pretty impressive set-up  and you have obviously put in a lot of work  but do you think considering the amount of listing you have are you selling enough of your items on a regular basis ?

All the best 

[superchallenge]

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@gmij1961 wrote:

I had a look at you site last night and I have to honest its a pretty impressive set-up  and you have obviously put in a lot of work  but do you think considering the amount of listing you have are you selling enough of your items on a regular basis ?

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In short, yes.

I operate in a very, very niche market. I sell primarily Japanese videogames, consoles, and related collectables. As a software developer by trade, I've made systems that make listing items a bit quicker than it would be for most.

My goal is to sell 1% of my inventory each day. With 513 active listings, my records show I'm selling through an average of 4.2 items per day, so it could be better, but I'm happy enough with it for now 🙂

[vinylscot]

You posted "The very real  problem Ebay has which has been over looked and perhaps Ebay has lost sight off , if things don't sell then no one makes any money .  That is also a reality for any seller , things need to sell and Ebay is becoming to look increasingly stale . "

This has been posted a number of times, although I appreciate it's very hard to find anything specific, especially when threads go over 4,000 posts!

I don't think eBay lost sight of this. Quite the contrary, I think they are acutely aware of the amount of resources and hard cash they have been putting in, relisting literally millions of listings every month, the vast majority of which (by now) stand next to no chance of ever selling. I believe that's one of the reasons why they are making things a little more awkward for small private sellers. It make sense to rid the site of these stale, essentially dormant listings.

Perhaps eBay could stop automatically relisting after an item has been up for, say, two years. It doesn't need to be lost - the seller could be given the option to re-list. By forcing the seller to do something, I'm sure many of these listings would soon disappear. My account has a number of listings over two years old, and they do occasionally sell, but I would be quite happy if I was forced to actively renew them after a certain period had elapsed.

[heglo_59]

So... is it all change tomorrow like they've said or have we heard something else??? 

[sparebitsbucket]

No, that would be a very childish way of trying to stop a minority of private sellers from repeatedly listing items that don't sell - if that was actually a problem they'd need to also target business sellers since they'll be offending at the same rate. They'd also not want to deter the sellers who don't repost for years without lowering prices.

[dantwocats]

sent photos to CS regarding nonexciting letter post option and part of there reply was ,,

 I have gone through the image shared and can see that you are using eBay postage options to list the items and so unable to make changes from your end. Therefore, it is requested that you please try using "Custom postage" option and please be assured as you will then be able to make the changes from your end without any issue ? you can not make this up as there is no Custom postage" option on my relist page ? and still not letter post option ?

[dantwocats]

and have again been told by CS to use custom postage for my small cards ? its not there to use !!!!

[edwardian-dreams]

Are you not getting this when you click on package size?

it’s another way into custom postage 

but even if you get in, the letter options do not work ..you can change it to padded envelope though (LL) and then edit postage cost to whatever you want 

[theelench]

OK that's your view and I respect it.

It's not mine.

[dantwocats]

i only get the , up to 20kg,, not options below it ? also have one item that should go as oversize ,,freight only,, but this keeps jumping back to postage only ? now sold and see what royal mail will do as its going by the recommended option

[vynaldirect2u]

Completely agree, I'm sticking with it but have slowed a lot due to the amount of time I have to spend undoing what eBay want me to do so I can sell in the way I want.   They say it's never been easier to sell on eBay.... they're stark raving bonkers.   Please eBay undo all these cr8ppy micromanaging updates, nobody wants it.

Sad n disheveled in theuk.

[edwardian-dreams]

Have you tried listing as postcard 

chose continue without match

it should default to custom and not SD

again you’ll have to chose padded envelope as letters are on strike !

Obviously go and change category and title to suit after 

 

 

[fatbob*ian]

Act how they want you to, thought I was in Russia or China for a moment 

[nothing.anymore]

I've been following this thread since the very start, and a few comments made me smile a bit. I've noticed some saying it's only a small amount of sellers moaning here about the changes, and a much bigger number still carrying on selling. I don't doubt that, but it doesn't tell exactly how many are unhappy with the latest changes. I bet thousands of disapproving sellers are reading this, but not commenting. Over 4000 comments left already say enough. 

[fatbob*ian]

Just had a message from eBay "sell locally and free your next buyer could be down road" now wouldn't that make things easier 😃

[vinylscot]

in what way would it be "childish"?

I also see no reason why it couldn't be extended to business sellers - I even mentioned I would be happy to comply myself.

In the main, we're talking about totally inactive sellers, and listings with no activity history. For goodness sake, thousands of them will be dead!

it would be simple. A quick email to the seller. "On 27th May 2025, if still active, your listing(s) noted below will be ended. If you wish to re-list them, they can be seen on your "ended listings" page for the next 30 days."

[moonlight-rhapsody]

"Though it probably would have been tough to predict this level of backlash given that people were saying "We like Vinted, and FEEBAY (lol, I'm basically Oscar Wilde!) takes too much in fees" so eBay said "Let's switch the fees to the buyer side and make eBay more or less identical to Vinted" only to find people screaming "I can't believe you're charging buyers and trying to control me, eBay! I'm going to Vinted!"

^ If that was ebay's thinking, then it was very naive of them.  AFAIK Vinted had fees on the buyer's side from the start, and it was set up by a 20-something, aimed at younger generations who may have been venturing into online selling for the first time so they didn't know any different.  On ebay, OTOH, the customer profile is older and more longstanding, and it doesn't take a genius to think that it would take more than a badly conceived and implemented new system to convince those people that change was a Good Thing.

AFAIK there wasn't a demand that sellers fees be abolished and switched to the buyer.  Most reasonable people accepted the sellers fee, even if was beginning to look a bit greedy.  Ebay should have recognised the difference between the Vinted customer base and ebay's, and if they had done, then the level of backlash would have been predictable.

And what bright spark decided that it was a good idea to introduce several major changes within a very short time frame, and without fully researching the implications and testing the efficacy of each change before launching.

I don't care how many metrics they've got , in fact they've probably got so many metrics that they can't see the wood for the trees.  Metrics must be all they go by, because what they haven't got is commonsense.  If they had, they would have realised that the Vinted model wouldn't necessarily suit their own customer profile, and they would have known that it's hard enough to get people to change one ingrained habit, let alone get them to change several within a short time frame. 

And the backlash isn't just verbal - it's obvious from reading the many complaints by both private sellers and businesses about sales being decimated.  Ebay have sabotaged their own platform with manipulated search results, buyers premium, item specifics, mis-identified categories etc, and that's before the difficulties of SD.  It's a master lesson in bad management.

[crn303]

You are beginning to sound like an old record (get the pun = your business) but commentators on these community postings are in your opinion, childish or don’t get it (oh so often your  boring opening gambit when replying).

Don't talk down to people that are simply expressing their views regardless how you feel.

You are opposing free comment and speech. 
Yes, there may be crazy statements, suggestions etc expressed but who are we to discriminate.

[superchallenge]

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@crn303 wrote:

You are beginning to sound like an old record (get the pun = your business) but commentators on these community postings are in your opinion, childish or don’t get it (oh so often your  boring opening gambit when replying).

Don't talk down to people that are simply expressing their views regardless how you feel.

You are opposing free comment and speech. 
Yes, there may be crazy statements, suggestions etc expressed but who are we to discriminate.

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Would have been a great point if vinylscot was the one calling anybody childish.

He was responding to someone who was saying something was childish.

[moonlight-rhapsody]

"it would be simple. A quick email to the seller. "On 27th May 2025, if still active, your listing(s) noted below will be ended. If you wish to re-list them, they can be seen on your "ended listings" page for the next 30 days."

It seems so obvious, doesn't it?  It's along the lines that I was suggesting myself a few posts back.  Instead, ebay have allowed probably millions of free listings to mount up, so they only have themselves to blame if it's been costing them money.  What they've done to solve the problem, however, is to take a sledgehammer to crack the proverbial nut.  Others can disagree, but to me it seems like another example of bad management decisions.