Like many posters here, I just don't see the need for Simple Delivery.
I have been on this eBay account for twenty years, and on my private account for twenty five. I am comfortable with my own choices for shipping, and my buyers are too. I can accommodate individual requests, combine shipping, post in my own declared timescale, choose my own courier, and set my own shipping costs to include a small amount for packaging materials, and generally do all this much cheaper (with appropriate tracking) than eBay offers with Simple Delivery.
On the surface, it's not a bad idea, but it falls down as soon as anything out of the ordinary arises. At the moment combined shipping doesn't work, and it is unclear how it can every work properly; if a buyer requests I send something by UPS, I can't do it - it's got to be RM or Evri; if a buyer asks for a delay in posting, I can't do it, as the label has an expiry date; I now need to include an amount for packaging in my item price, even though eBay still calls SD "postage and packing"; and the price for our shipping is dictated to us, and is often much more expensive than it should be.
eBay will be making well over £1.00 in pure profit for every single package sent under the Simple Delivery scheme. That's money they weren't getting six months ago, and which they are really not doing anything for. If they had made a decision to "split the difference", by foregoing some of that profit by reducing their prices, people may be more willing to put up with these inconveniences. But eBay are not only extracting a huge profit through SD, they are partly doing this by charging users higher prices than they would pay if they arranged their own postage.
Other posters could add other reasons. I could add more myself, but I reckon you get the point.
So, do you see now why so many people aren't keen on it.
