NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY

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.

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Sure. I don't know your method obviously. Just saying if you follow the official instructions that I posted, created by eBay, then it fails. I've done it twice now. They come to collect but never bring a label. 🤷‍♂️

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i just had them change evri to royal mail but the item is too big for royal mail so i have to cancel the order...absolutely crazy system

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I’ve just been reading today’s Community Chat.  It was a very dispiriting read, with very unsatisfactory answers.  For example, one seller asked the following:

 

Now that Simple Delivery has kicked in for me with no more custom postage option, are vinyl records still on the excluded list re being covered for loss & damage en route to the buyer? 

 

This was the answer given (bold type by ebay):

 

If the item is sent with Simple Delivery postage then eBay offers protection. Please see the below 

  Items are protected against loss or damage from the moment they are scanned into the courier’s delivery network until they are marked as delivered by the courier.  There’s also no need to call the courier or customer support. In the event that a buyer raises a claim for an issue that occurs during transit, you won’t be held  responsible. 

 
Have I missed something, or does that answer totally ignore the actual question?
 
Gotta commend vinylscot though for his persistence over reporting business sellers passing themselves off as private sellers.  The ebay team came up with a “justification” for not taking action against them, and I thought vinylscot’s reaction was priceless (and very brave!):  “Marco, that's utter nonsense, and you know it is.”  Just say it like it is, vs - and are you still here? 😄
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I have an item listed for £30 and had used the custom setting to manually
choose Royal Mail 48 hour tracked which is the service I use for ALL my
listings. I decided to drop the price to £25. When I looked at the listing
a day or so later ( this was last week, (July 7th) it had become simple
delivery with Evri! I cannot change it to Royal Mail and the option to use
custom settings is no longer available. Under £10 was never part of the
listing! This is all very wrong. Do the English laws regarding Restrictive
Trade Practices apply here? Perhaps a legal brain could comment?
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@moonlight-rhapsody  Still here - got a few private message mentioning these posts in the chat. Everyone knows it's true, and Marco's silly justification may apply in a tiny minority of cases, but in almost all cases, if someone goes as far as to report a seller for pretending to be a private individual, it's pretty obvious.

 

I think the way to approach it is that every single buyer who buys from one of these sellers is paying a BPF which is being applied illegally, as the seller is trading illegally. It may actually partly explain why eBay is so reluctant to take action (now, anyway) - if a seller is forced to convert, should all the BPFs that their buyers have paid not be refunded? Legally, I think it may be the case that they should.

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just read the chat and what a waste of time it is!  I have to agree that the responses to 'private' sellers being businesses are a load of  hogwash.  One of the examples was a thousand handmade new items, they say that because we cannot see the account we do not have a clue as to whether it is a business or not.  News for e bay, even an idiot could determine that in that circumstance it is a business.  There are a lot of ones that may be up for not being a clear case but so many are.    What they mean is that e bay are not prepared to lose that market!  

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just to say that you once again lived up to my expectations in your measured comments, that is the @vinylscot we all know and love!!!  (even if sometimes disagree with)

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I bought 2 items ( used, collectable) from the same seller last week and paid BPF on both.

When they arrived and Ebay prompted me to save them as a favourite seller, I clicked on their 'about' which stated 'We are a small family run business'.

Will I get a refund for misrepresentation? Probably not.

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Report the seller to eBay - and point out what they say in the "about" section.

 

If nobody reports them, nothing can ever happen, as eBay are obviously not doing anything proactively.

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Just seen this on Google. For the US, an auction on trading cards will go on beyond the finish time if bids are coming in at last minute!

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Report the seller to eBay - and point out what they say in the "about" section.

 

If nobody reports them, nothing can ever happen, as eBay are obviously not doing anything proactively.


Can you actually report a seller?  I thought you can only report individual listings?  I'm not familiar with how it is now because I long ago gave up reporting.  Some 20 years ago I was trawling ebay for stuff relevant to my DSLR camera and would see so many auctions where clearly there was shill bidding.  And that the seller regularly organised it.  Reports were useless.  All that changed was that feedback on the site became obscured so it was harder to spot such activity (though the Trust & Safety department doubtless had access).  I became very cynical and gave up reporting.

 

Why would loss of the BPF be any incentive for ebay not to force conversion on a seller?  They'd get back far more in (non-level) business seller fees.

 

@vinylscot   That Wednesday chat.  I predict there'll be a team of cheerleaders with pom-poms at a future chat, chanting "Go Vinyl, Go Vinyl, ra ra ra!".  But I'd hate to see you banned.  Maybe tone it down a little, we can read between the lines.  Nice try though.

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It's hidden well and the results are as useless as reporting an item.

Report an issue with a seller | eBay

 

I agree with your advice to @vinylscot  as we lost a very good seller from the boards who also challenged the system. 

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@johnwash1  @cobwebcottage  I do think that these people do need their feet held to the fire on this issue, but I reckon I've done my bit. Someone else can take it on from here.

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@sunflowers4me59 wrote:

Just seen this on Google. For the US, an auction on trading cards will go on beyond the finish time if bids are coming in at last minute!


@sunflowers4me59  eBay hasn't given much detail about how they are determining which "select items" are included in that test, but just FYI - the same banner message appears on the eBay UK bidding help page, as well as the same pages for Canada, and Australia, so it appears to may potentially be a global change.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/buying/bidding/bidding?id=4003 

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