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.

[edwardian-dreams]

I don’t know which question has gone if any

there are four there now when I looked

and yes you get to see all the replies from the eBay community staff team Dave marco and Kat 

[punzel9072]

I don’t know which question has gone if any

there are four there now when I looked

and yes you get to see all the replies from the eBay community staff team Dave marco and Kat 

Thanks, but the first question  has gone, it's not one of the questions there now. Seems I should have screen-shotted it but I didn't know it was going to be removed.

[akemp1]

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@wiganyankeeron wrote:
So who is going to pay £3+ for a large letter that weighs 100g when RM’s
price is £1.55

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I guess some people will be paying it but to get an overall attractive price the seller is likely to have to reduce their item price by a further £1.50 on top of the circa £1.50 reduction they might have already made to cover the buyer tax. That's huge reduction on a small low value item - a category killer.

[zed1015]

It was probably a question they couldn't answer with a plausible lie so swept it under the carpet..

[magnoniboy]

Like you, I had decided that it was time to stop selling on eBay as I have no intention of using Simple Delivery.  However, I have found that there is still a way of selling at auction and avoiding Simple Delivery.  If the starting price is £10 or less and you offer free delivery, you can choose Switch to advanced options twice and then choose Custom postage.  It doesn't seem to matter if the item sells for over £10, as you can still choose how you would like it delivered, ignoring the option to purchase a label from eBay for 87p.  The eBay computer clearly doesn't know that the item isn't going to fit into a letter, at least for now.

[wiganyankeeron]

EXACTLY A lot of Sellers only sell "Paper" items which weigh between 100 and
750gms

RON,

[akemp1]

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@wiganyankeeron wrote:
EXACTLY A lot of Sellers only sell "Paper" items which weigh between 100 and
750gms

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Yup taking at least the lower weights of Large Letters out of SD (where the item value is under £20) is joint top of my list (alongside combined buyer tax / postage on multiple item orders) of further changes they need to make for SD to become acceptable.

Around 50% of the stuff I buy and sell on ebay is at 100g or 250g LL rate. I hope they don't do an exception by category as they have with the 100g / £10 / Std Letter exemption that's way too complicated and incomplete for something claiming to be simple.

If we must have SD then it should ideally be Parcel-Only and never charge more than the carrier list price.

And of course sellers should  be able to exclude carriers with no penalties.

And buyers should be told the name of the carrier (not hidden behind standard/express) so they can make an informed decision should they want to avoid the undeclared Evri horse meat in their meal.

[gandalf_hawkshead]

I’ve counted 5 questions that have been deleted thus far including, funnily enough, this one. 

[azathothdreaming]

I do feel sorry for the eBay team who have to do the Wednesday chat thing, they weren't the ones making the decision and yet they're catching the flak for it, I hope they're recieving proper support internally. 

End of May is now the deadline apparently, no commitment on that coinciding with the ability for the postie to bring a label but they can only feed back what they've been told. The policy does seem needlessly exclusionary to people with illness, I can't believe how half baked this whole thing is

[dion5feb2016]

Attempted to respond to your last post, the longer one, CLOSED apparently!

[wiganyankeeron]

Testing is this topic still LIVE?

[dion5feb2016]

Many posts now strangely disappeared, tried to give kudos to some and respond to others, all CLOSED, how very odd, or NOT!

[nothing.anymore]

''I said no, RM have agreed to just deliver it. She said it must be a scam.''

That made me laugh. Although it is not a scam, it still sums up well what ebay are making themselves look like with all the incompetence that their recent changes are soaked with.

Sunflower - do not let the likes of vinylscot intimidate you. Not the first time somebody posts something that doesn't match his ebay/reality vision, and he calls that person a liar. 

[sunflowers4me59]

Thank you for the bolster.

[crn303]

Hello Ron … We all know there is a Father Christmas, how else would we get presents.

[crn303]

Hello sunflower … agree with your support from nothing.anymore.

[luka0001]

So, if I understand correctly, S.D. will roll out to all private sellers by the end of May?

The suspense is killing me, apart from obsessively watching to see if my listings have been changed.

[nothing.anymore]

Ebay turned into kgb. 

I can believe some messages got deleted. Somebody mentioned ebay cheerleaders working on this forum, and then got a ban.

Bans cannot shut the people up nor can they deny the truth that ebay are not genuine anymore, and it includes this forum.

[vinylscot]

I take exception to your last comment. I have never called anyone a liar.

I have said some things are "hard to believe"; I do think posters are often mistaken; and I do think some posters are simply trying to stir it up.

Many of the events related in posts on here are greatly exaggerated, for effect. I think every rational poster acknowledges that.

But I haven't called anyone a liar.

We are actually on the same "side". I don't approve of eBay's latest changes, BPF and SD, and I think they have implemented them extremely badly. I am sure there were problems of the kind discussed on here in the early days of Simple Delivery, but from my own experience (I have a private account too), including discussions with my local post office manageress, most of these problems should no longer exist in real life.

The more recent problems with prices fluctuating almost daily, is simply unacceptable, and eBay should be addressing this as a priority. There is enough wrong with eBay's recent developments, that there is no need to invent improbable scenarios; if other posters can see through them, do you honestly think eBay doesn't?

So, keep it real. It'll be better for all of us.

[grapecr-30]

Sending items by Royal Mail Tracked 48, the item is Insured for up too £150 , and it is Tracked every step of the way....