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.

[lamulady2]

Has no one else tried ignoring the "buy label" & gone direct to the Royal Mail site....it takes longer but can be a saver of a few pence & one does not get any complaints of overcharging customers as I reimburse the tax anyway...just add the small amount of extra postage to give them a nice feeling!!  I then mark item as being sent & add any tracking or postage number that R. mail give you.  A proof of postage or email from RM if collected (at an extra 30p!!) is quite enough for any problems that might occur surely?

[colcoo-616]

Still able to list and opt out of simple delivery , no listings changed as others mentioned? what is happening.

[sml192]

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@lamulady2 wrote:
Has no one else tried ignoring the "buy label" & gone direct to the Royal Mail site....it takes longer but can be a saver of a few pence & one does not get any complaints of overcharging customers as I reimburse the tax anyway...just add the small amount of extra postage to give them a nice feeling!!  I then mark item as being sent & add any tracking or postage number that R. mail give you.  A proof of postage or email from RM if collected (at an extra 30p!!) is quite enough for any problems that might occur surely?

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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by 'ignoring the "buy label"'? 

[jonatjonatjonat]

I think they mean they are not downloading the simple delivery label eBay supply and buying their own postage.

[honeymonster007]

If you buy your own postage, mark the new tracking number on the originally generated label and then cancel the originally generated label for a refund what happens to the tracking number?

Would it be right in thinking the ebay 486 is seeing 2 separate labels? 

[sunflowers4me59]

But don't you need to download it to get a name and address? I've not had to do it so don't know.

[sdrummond-uk]

If you use the drop down menu on the order page to print out an invoice/packing slip the address is on that.

[suelel1968]

I was glad to see that you tried "the question" this week. I was really cross the week before with his (same) response to my question. Can we leave it with you for next week? 

[suelel1968]

NO SD for me either. No option allot of the time either.

Do you remember Gerald Ratner verbally trashing his own business? This is the technical equivalent.

I don't mind using SD,  I don't mind it being just RM & Evri. I don't mind Ebay creaming a little off the top (take it from Evri and the soon to be foreign owned RM) Lets face it RM is nothing without the likes of Ebay. Most other online stores use anything but RM. What i object to is not being in control and not setting the appropriate postage rate myself. If it costs 0.85p / £1.55 I would like to use 0.85p/£1.55 and I'm sure buyers would like that too.

V'ted get away with it because they were selling clothes only until fairly recently and in general the postage rates they use are reasonable for heavier items. Nearly £3 for something that should be £1.55 is just a con and a con which will largely benefit RM which i don't understand. Got that off my chest. 

[vinylscot]

Surely it's someone else's turn?

I was also disappointed nobody brought up combined postage in SD this week.

[1956glyn]

It does not necessarily bebefit Royal Mail it benefits Ebay.  Ebay will have negotiated contracts for delivery with Royal Mail and also Evri at a fraction of the cost we would have to pay without simple delivery.  At a guess it would be something like £1 per item no matter what the weight.

[pwyl4943]

Sent from my iPhone

[suelel1968]

I'm fine with that. My point really is just let me select appropriate postage through SD. The fact that we can only select  two carriers will benifit those companies, thats fine too. It's quite simple really. I would call my new delivery plan "Very Simple Delivery". 

[pra29]

So what would you call it  when you sell an item that Evri will carry but NOT the PO and then eBay only offers the buyer Royal Mail and label produced is a Royal Mail one. What then?  I was stuck with an item that neither the Post Office (because item is too large) nor Evri (because label is for Royal Mail) would accept.   Not so simple now!

[ruby*ryan]

Unfortunately many (most?) of the problems seem to be caused by Post Offices who have no idea they are supposed to accept the items. I have had no problems with SD parcels - including a couple that have been oversized - but then, I haven't set foot in a PO for years!

[honeymonster007]

That sounds pretty stressful. Did you manage to send the parcel in the end? 

[honeymonster007]

Have you thought of any ideas how to get around it on your pvt account?

Spent all day yesterday trying to figure out a solution, but the only thing I could think of was buying your own postage and posting outside of SD.

[punzel9072]

As an experiment, I had just one item listed on eBay which was a large letter (200g) and I had set to custom postage for Royal Mail Tracked 48, buyer pays, £2.70, which is the correct amount for that size and weight. The item sold, and the buyer paid including the postage. I printed off the label, took it to the post office, and off it went. On the receipt that I was given it stated weight 100g, and looking at the photo of the label that I had already taken, that said 100g too. No idea why as it was never going to be 100g and I'd already selected on my listing 'large letter up to 1kg'. It's due for delivery tomorrow so I'll see what happens.
The only other items I now have listed on eBay are under 100g and under £10 and I have set the custom postage to 87p.

[lucy_farmer]

Out of interest..... was your buyer in the 'Highlands or Islands'? (inc. Isle of Wight)

If so:

Evri don't do postage or collection to or from absolutely everywhere... (I don't think.) Which I reckon is why ebay have the clause of reserving the right to use a service that is *not* the one chosen by the buyer or seller. Because that chosen service doesn't go to that address (R.M *has* to go everywhere in the UK)

So if you have a parcel that is too BIG for R.M (under Simple Del) and Evri doesn't want to deliver there......

I think the only way around it is a real faff.  As follows:

1. Cancel the sale (with buyer's knowledge and agreement of what you're doing)

2. get a quote from Parcel force (they do large parcels over the whole of the UK)

3. Calculate how much more that is than the S.D. price and add that difference to the price of the item.

4. re list item  just for your buyer  (call it something daft, and tell buyer what that is, so nobody else sees it and buys it...)  and re-list as 'Seller pays postage'.

5. Take parcel to Parcelfarce and post it.

6. 'Request' a refund of the unused S.D. label.

7. Sit back and wait 14 days to get paid (unless somebody here has worked out how to add a non-S.D. tracking number to a sale??)

Simple delivery, eh...???   yeah, my ar&@. 😂😂

[pra29]

"Out of interest..... was your buyer in the 'Highlands or Islands'? (inc. Isle of Wight)"

No, unless Cornwall has moved!