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.

[rugbyguy1960]

Your post is great. Even A I seems to understand why SD is so disliked and why so many users here have given such a negative response to it.

[lamulady2]

Greetings,  more likely a personal reply but can you not buy,probably quite low price, a door radio thing that will make a light flash (you wd put it where you are working/sitting!!)
I now have....along with 1,000's of others,  R.Mail dropping on us a fee again for collecting...even though not as bad as before their Christmas strike of , was it '23 or '22 when it was 70p an item, just to add insult to the injury that ebay have done to us...30p is not excessive  but when one only gets say £3 an item,  which includes all the relative hard work of entering/photographing,  having customers trying to beat one down, & all the costs & effort of packing (only tape for me as I reuse everything else from scrounging various shops &  an office for their throw outs!! or even Lidls for the box bases of their tinned goods) Being slightly disabled in the walking I have to use an electric buggy to get to the post office which is ok in the fine weather.  Getting to a shop drop off for a courier is even further & I have heard such dreadful things about Evri, I have used Yodel but you cannot even use them now. I am very down hearted.  A pity really, as downsizing is such a cathartic action & quite fun!!  As for most of the courier drivers,  many of them do not seem to be able to pronounce one's street.......enough said.

[goodibags]

Downsizing is very cathartic as you say and I usually have an idea at the start of the year which of the accumulated junk/treasure I'd like to re-home. Up until Ebay and RM often have their own 'development' plans which completely scupper what I had been planning to do, like having to use up postage stamps before they become obsolete? Ebay's latest 'efforts' are certainly testing their users' resourcefulness.

I see you have a lot of books listed and maybe you could combine more into lots? e.g. Group together by author or genre or series? I know it's more hard work for small reward and there's a limit  on what you can send but it may help. Maybe a collection-only job lot would help to at least clear out a bit of space and at least make you feel like you're making progress?

Or maybe there's someone nearby who is looking to sell stuff but scared to start out, so you can combine efforts and then they could do the dropping off for you? Beyond that, maybe check your items with the most views or watchers and lower the price on those. It's possible that you'll end up selling most of them to business sellers to flog on themselves but there's usually a 'right' price at which things will sell.

Having said that it'll need more people buying and selling. I get the impression that businesses too may be waiting out Ebay's self-imposed 'storm' hoping to glimpse a bright light on the horizon?

[fatbob*ian]

As with a number of people on this thread I have just put together a test listing (not made it live in case of a forced change) and I was able to use custom postage, size, weight, courier etc.  I'll leave it in drafts until after the 20th when further changes are supposedly being introduced then go back to it to see whether I have to make any alterations. An interesting few weeks lie ahead I'm guessing 🤔.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

just waiting for the hammer to fall!!!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I delisted my items on 7th april in anticipation and started listing again two weeks ago when i found out i could still do custom  even after they transferred them on to SD.  Unlike a lot of people in Feb and March i had really good amount of sales, so far views are down on what i would normally have expected and no sales at all.  Maybe it is true that the buyers have started leaving the sinking ship, another couple of weeks will tell (that is unless they manage to enforce SD on everyone again, then i will be gone for good.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

but at least you can allow for the 30p in the postage figure if you want to, unlike if you used SD.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

the problem with your comment is that it is most likely true!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

actually i think it is increasing as a lot of sellers did not know or did not realise what it actually meant, that is judging by the number of new sellers coming on this forum to have their say.

[gmij1961]

Up until Ebay reinvented the meaning of the word simple .  The process that we all followed was the most simple given the practical requirements

The person who packs the items buys and arranges the postage and for obvious reasons that has to be the seller . The buyer pays the seller for the postage and packaging costs .

Anything that departs from that basic practice is adding a complication which is the opposite of the meaning of simple . That is why SD is doomed as its a contradiction in terms 

Its amazing they ever got investment funding for SD as concept but that's "Merchant Bankers"  for you 🙂

[kath3735_wxmjn]

mine have been back on using custom for the past two weeks and they are still showing as that, i check regularly just in case.

[clearingmyshelves2025]

Agree entirely. It's the hope of finding a home for that item. Most of mine weren't suitable for charity shops (they're rather, let's say 'selective' in my area). Most of my sales in the last 2 years were items belonging to my late parents, both collectors of various things. Any money I would make would be split between us 4 children. I sold some of Dad's items to buyers who quite realised  after that they either knew my father personally or of him. And it was a wonderful connection to have. Mum's craft stuff, some part-used, some new (and expensive to buy new) - practically all went to much appreciated homes, and she would have been delighted at that.

I've still got a lot that I have to find homes for. It's such a shame Ebay's taken that away. I had no problems with my sales, no cases bought against me, no items ever returned as 'not described' (I put a lot of time & effort into my listings - a professional on an amateur basis), I think in 20 odd years of selling maybe 4 or 5 items went astray.

[honeymonster007]

Not sure if this clears anything up but have just been to the post office (with a SD printed label, not a QR code) and they scan the label first, lady looks at her screen and asks for it to be put on the scales then hands over a receipt. That's pretty much it. 

[grannytrampler]

It seems to me that ebay in its madness is trying to monopolise the market on behalf of evri, perhaps the monopoltes commision would like to here of this turn of events

[suelel1968]

Exactly Parsley, limbo land. 

Is there a feel for how many sellers or categories have been transferred over? I have 2 I put on myself, one switched and I was able to switch it back, i have added some listings, all without SD at any size or price and even automatic relists don't change over. What is going on?

Anyone going to bother asking on Wednesday? I'm not available to do it and the answer / non answer will put my Blood pressure up anyway. 

[infohelps]

I totally agree.  I was mainly selling items that belonged to my late parents, and items from hobbies that I no longer indulge in!  A little money is nice to have, but not the main focus for many of us.  I get a buzz out of knowing that a weird and wonderful item has found a home where it is wanted and appreciated instead of ending up in landfill when I am gone.   This is something that many business sellers, and the eBay execs do not get AT ALL.

eBay played a very important part in matching vintage items to the right new owner, thus helping to preserve our social history and help people replace broken items.  My husband and I had a new boiler fitted.  As a result we needed to replace 4  tiles (20 years old!) that got broken during the refit.  We were able to search on ebay and find a private seller who was selling 6 original tiles for a pound each.  Sorted.  Cheaper than a re-tile.

Another time we wanted to sell an old camera and the dealer said he would give us a good price for it, but we needed the battery cover.  We went on eBay, bought the cover from a private seller for a tenner, off we went to the dealers, and sold it complete for a fair price.  And then of course, a collector bought it from the dealer.  A string of happy people from one eBay transaction, that eBay probably consider pointless.

I once sold 4 Williams and Glynn's plastic piggy banks from the 80s to a guy in Canada who bought them because he had some on his childhood windowsill, and he bought them for nostalgic purposes.

These are the reasons why eBay brought joy to so many people.  It is actually heart breaking to see that it has been hijacked by people who care only for the bottom line. 

[pauliner5045]

Less than £10 value and weighing less than 100g from what I’ve read.

No longer selling because of Simple (?) Delivery.

[aymanalvi]

Any one standing up to SD is a legend. Its a total scam, You don’t even get a refund as a seller even if you posted the item.

[sunflowers4me59]

I think only if it goes in a normal envelope, not LL.

[slipinsidethishouse]

I took all my items off in early April but am tempted to put one item on as a try out. Can somebody just describe what the pitfalls now are for selling in a kind of nutshell as I have read so much on this forum its all a bit confusing. I sell vintage comics and always used Royal Mail and posted the comics in a card A4 envelope addressed by myself, taking it to the post office counter and paying cash. Am I to understand payment will not be forwarded unless positive feedback is received? And even if I choose RM will it be changed to Evri?