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.

[punzel9072]

kath, I agree with EVERY word you have said, spot on!

[theregoesatenner]

Thumbs up to RM for very quick reply to my email, it was from a different member of staff -

Thank you for your email.

With regard to eBay, I'm unable to advise on how their system operates, as it falls outside of our support scope. However, I can confirm that the Post Office will reject any parcel with incorrect size or weight. If such a parcel is accepted, the recipient may receive a fee to pay card to cover the discrepancy. 

If you have any further questions regarding Click and Drop, please reply to this email or you can also contact us by phone on 03456 113 425 from 08:00 – 18.00 Monday to Friday.
 
Kind Regards,

[dion5feb2016]

I buy RM on my account online, easier and if the seller is happy to pay the RM online price which is better anyway as I can send a parcel (2kg medium or 5kg) for cheaper than on eBay as at the moment if I used SD I would have to say it was 15kg and charge over £10 for either of those, WHY?

[dion5feb2016]

I’m with you there, where and how do they do this I would like to know

[lamulady2]

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[lamulady2]

I have just discovered that every is actually in our Post Office which is in WH Smiths! That is fine for me but do they deliver?
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[jonatjonatjonat]

You know what - I accept I might be wrong here.

It looks like they used to do google shopping promotions - but now....you have to pay extra for it.

[dion5feb2016]

Says it all!

[jag-50]

Yes it's awful. It simply doesn't work. They take the money for postage and charge buyer protection and vat. I can't get their postage label. I've ended up selling things for nothing. I've had to ship out at my own expense and then they've withheld the funds because you can't prove you've sent the items. After 25 years buying and selling I'm quitting eBay 

[sdrummond-uk]

On checking my listing today I'm still on the 3.64 price (3.44 the other day) which is supposed to be 1kg up to medium parcel size. Still no small parcel options or the bracket between 2kg and 15kg.

They have now put up a new price list in seller centre

For items sold between £0-100

Item weight & size	Both couriers selected	EVRi only	Royal Mail only
1kg large letter	£2.70	£2.94	£2.72
0-1kg small parcel	£2.94	£2.96	£3.38
0-1kg medium parcel	£2.94	£2.96	£3.64
1-2kg small parcel	£3.38	£4.06	£3.38
1-2kg medium parcel	£3.71	£4.06	£5.15
2-10kg parcel	£5.21	£5.64	£6.65
10-20kg parcel	£7.19		£10.80

[edwardian-dreams]

Looks like progress there in the chart from previous price list 

hasnt happened in reality though …yet

[sdrummond-uk]

Wording changed as well.

From 20th May small parcels rates introduced to

Starting from 20th May we will be introducing small parcel rates.

Keep changing the goal posts. They haven't got a clue what they are doing and we are supposed to figure out how to use it.

[akemp1]

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@sdrummond-uk wrote:

Wording changed as well.

From 20th May small parcels rates introduced to

Starting from 20th May we will be introducing small parcel rates.

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At least that seems to be an admission that the £5.15 problem people are seeing on small parcels in recent days is being worked on and should be resolved eventually.

I've never known so many high impact changes on ebay having such vague timescales.

I guess they have had to replan rapidly when they realised how unacceptable SD 1.0  'mistake edition' was. It feels like we have had SD 2.0 'price match edition' are now waiting for SD 3.0 'small parcel edition' before SD 4.0 'combined postage edition' before hopefully they agree to do SD 5.0 'fixing large letter edition' and SD 6.0 'no penalties for removing carrier and telling buyers name of carrier edition'...

By the time we get to SD 10.0 then SD might be no worse than managed delivery at the clothing place at which point I will accept it as that works OK. Although I appreciate this is still no good for those who want to use their own stamps or buy from their local post office but that's never going to happen as the postage revenue is hard baked into ebay's business plans now.

[akemp1]

I'm still hoping for Buyer Tax 2.0 'stop showing everyone the wrong numbers edition', Buyer Tax 3.0 'call it a platform fee edition', Buyer Tax 4.0 'one fixed element on combined orders edition' and maybe even Buyer Tax 5.0 'let's just go back to seller fees edition'.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

just lost my ability to do custom postage on revised items so will not be putting any more on.   Will keep the current stuff on until they change it.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

trouble is that the youngsters in my family consider e bay naff these days.  They all used to use it but now do not bother, they give me their stuff or put it on other sites themselves, depending on what it is of course.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

mine are in their early 40s.  E Bay is/was good for selling unusual and odd items (i sold all my Le Creuset pan lids on here!) and to be honest most younger people are not looking for unusual/odd items unless they have specific hobbies/interests.  Why come on e bay for a lot of stuff you can buy cheaper and new from the main sites, like Shein etc.

[dion5feb2016]

Same here re offspring.  There was a time when I had to be watcher and bidder for mine, when she didn’t have time to do it herself, not any more, not for a very long time. I also list for friends etc but looking elsewhere now to do so. It’s beyond pants now, what more can I say.

[akemp1]

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@kath3735_wxmjn wrote:

just lost my ability to do custom postage on revised items so will not be putting any more on.

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Sad times, sorry for your loss.

Blessed are those postage options which give meaning to our lives;
holy and precious are the listings they leave behind.

It's so wrong they are forcing this on people while it's still duff.

Still I guess someone important at ebay has targets to meet and hang the consequences.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

sounds like my young relatives.  One of them spends more through amazon than he does in the local shops!