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.

[heglo_59]

It probably is but I don't use Evri. 

[sml192]

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@gmij1961 wrote:

Something I have noticed , in terms or private seller Automated feedback  it has been quoted somewhere  as being a new feature of SD. 

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Nowhere has it been stated that automated feedback is a feature of Simple Delivery.  It just happened to be in the same announcement, on 4th April, to that regarding updates to Simple Delivery, US tariffs, etc. 

[lamulady2]

Nor do I!! My nearest is Yodel & I use them only for larger than usual size boxes,  generally light weight!!

[crn303]

It is becoming bloody ridiculous when certain “high ang mighty” community posters continue to “put down” acceptable comments and opinions from others.

As mentioned by others, you are a business seller who appears to be personally hung up about private sellers.
You state eBay will not back peddle on their recent decisions and changes knowing what they are doing, but is that really believable ?

They probably will have to do something as they are definitely “bleeding” at the moment.

Did they really expect the backlash they have HAD and are CONTINUING to receive.

Certain correspondents will continue to seek “ticks” on their postings totally disregarding others who are equally allowed their own opinions but who do it in a quiet and civilised manner.

Each of us, whether a business or private seller make our OWN decisions and it really should not be any one else’s concern.

To those of you that have already left or may be leaving the eBay platform, I sincerely hope things change some time soon and you may wish to return.

[lamulady2]

RUDE word,  VERY rude word  . That is even adding insult to injury.  I NEVER use automated feed back,  just as I NEVER use their AI description...(for books it is uneducated & inept as well as being excruciatingly crass & recognisable a mile off) I ALWAYS give a personal one,  that is AFTER the customer has bothered to give theirs...even 'thank you' from them is adequate. How the hades can we stop this? My rider at the end of my description is going to be longer than it is already.  Thank you for this info.

[sml192]

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@wiganyankeeron wrote:

I've just called into my local Post Office. I asked thee girl behind the counter, who is also the owner, if they had had any notification from R.M. or Ebay to accept undervalued packets or parcels. She said they hadn't..I n fact she showed me a packet someone had just dropped off a few minutes earlier , with an Ebay pre paid label which was under paid. and she had just added postage  stamps on to it, to bring it up to the correct postage value..

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Stamps are not subject to VAT so cannot be used to top up a VATable service such as Royal Mail Tracked as no matter how many stamps are added the VAT element would remain unpaid.  If she is supposed to be in charge and doesn't know that then that is actually pretty shocking! 

[lamulady2]

Hmm.  Thank you for info...I must admit that among other failings, I am a useless techno person. I need lessons suitable to a six year old,  & then have to have many repetitions & make notes which I hope to be able to find again later!!

[vinylscot]

This is true. However, with all the publicity around this, I can imagine post office workers simply taking their lead from disgruntled eBayers, who will no doubt have grumbled about the price. They may not know the "ins-and-outs", but they certainly hear the general comments.

As I mentioned earlier, I've had a couple of SD packages to send through my private account. The first time I handed one in, several weeks ago, the lady in the post office asked me if it was cheaper, and if I was happy with it. She knows me well, so I imagine was just satisfying her own curiosity. The manageress, who I have mentioned before, is really on-the-ball, and I know she spoke with a couple of sellers at the outset, to straighten out a couple of things which weren't too clear in the original Horizon bulletin.

So, the staff at my PO certainly know SD is not popular, and that we would much rather it had never happened.

[vinylscot]

Although you are one of the most active disrupters, I'm sure you agree that those posters,  who are still pretending that the PO is turning away their SD packages, are simply wasting everybody's time.

I do have a private account as well, and have sent a small number of parcels using SD. I don't like it, and I can't see it as anything other than a money grab by eBay. There are some very specific circumstances where it will be better than the "old" system, but these are few and far between. To >90% of private sellers, SD is a "bad thing".

Whether it is popular or not, once it is well bedded in, and working better, say in a year or so, I'm sure it will be extended to some business sellers, probably those with turnover below a certain level, almost certainly including myself. Therefore, it's only natural I should take an interest.

[lamulady2]

Ahhh,  that is interesting info...thank you.  Strangely enough I have not had many orders since the PFD  thingy started (& I have refunded every single one of them so far & have changed my 'rider' on oh so few because of time available to include this info)  & NO orders since the SD........ Strange. 
 I also use the word "iniquitous" quite a lot!!!!!! I wonder if I am going to be kicked off before long even after the usual quote to me " thank you for being a good member for so long"!! when I ever get to speak to their staff in Bulgaria or wherever.

[manyjamjar]

Do we have a new date for SD only option ?  😑🙄😂

[lamulady2]

Dear Mr Vynilscot (Advisor),Thank you for sending me one of my 55 posts today. Never having come across you I am not sure why you should name me as "one of the disrupters (there might have been an adjective...I have forgotten)  I realise that I am inclined to carry on rather a lot on a subject which irritates me, ( my family call it 'ranting') but I am always ready to take a reprimand if I feel I have deserved it....However,  this is nothing to do with the iniquitous taxing applied to Private sellers, along with the dangerous SD, just a personal peeve.Yours sincerely Lamulady2

[lamulady2]

  & also gives no indication as to our satisfaction that they actually bought something from you!!

[tommystrezures]

I know its not popular with our local PO, but it is what it is if you will @vinylscot  However like you I am against this mess, but our local village PO knew about this at the end of march, (as good as a month ago now).....

[papso22]

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@lamulady2 wrote:
Dear Mr Vynilscot (Advisor),Thank you for sending me one of my 55 posts today. Never having come across you I am not sure why you should name me as "one of the disrupters (there might have been an adjective...I have forgotten)  I realise that I am inclined to carry on rather a lot on a subject which irritates me, ( my family call it 'ranting') but I am always ready to take a reprimand if I feel I have deserved it....However,  this is nothing to do with the iniquitous taxing applied to Private sellers, along with the dangerous SD, just a personal peeve.Yours sincerely Lamulady2

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No-one is personally contacting you,  you are simply receiving the automatic emails ebay sends when someone responds to any posts on a thread you have subscribed to.

You can unsubscribe.

[wiganyankeeron]

Let me get this correct If I take a packet to the Post Office with an 87p
EBay prepaid label and the item weighs 2kg which should cost £4.05 The Post
Office are obliged to accept it????

RON,

[lamulady2]

VERY interesting....however, for someone slightly dodgy on her pins & no transport, a visit to the Evri dealer here, about 1/2 mile away, is OOQ.  Royal mail pick up my parcels when they deliver to the office over which I live, so, apart from Saturdays/Sundays, it is my life saver.
With no orders since SD was thrust upon us  (strange) I have yet to discover how it works!! But EXTREMELY interesting about no weight/size. I suppose those that deliver have this info about them as I was caught out, sometime last year,  by under estimating (?) by a few grams or mm, I cannot remember yet again) & my customer charged me for the extra (with a photo from the RM demanding payment).

[lamulady2]

Some hope!!!!

[lamulady2]

Thank you....but crikey...if it says Lamulady on the address bit does that mean that they are personally tagged but sent to EVERYBODY? (wih their own name on?) I have had some replies which were comments on what I THOUGHT I had followed up.  Groan.  Now I am REALLY flummoxed...do my small comments get sent to EVERYONE................

[tommystrezures]

STOP being pedantic, you and everyone else well knows this would not happen.

Firstly it would be an envelope sized item under 100gms, meaning if the item was under £10 it would be exempt,  for which a tracked 24/48 service does not exist and the label to that end would not say marketplace seller. If it was an item weighing 2kg then its a small parcel for which the last time I looked there was no 87p price bracket.

In the unlikely event your scenario were to happen then the answer would be yes as ebay have some sort of MBA agreement with RM which will be based on average weights, not actual weights.