eBay

rugbyguy1960 · ‎31-03-2025

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.

jonatjonatjonat · ‎08-10-2025

Vinted. Vinted do.

moonlight-rhapsody · ‎08-10-2025

I don't use Vinted but that figures, seeing as ebay are copying what Vinted does. It's a pity ebay had to copy the name as well as the practice though.

gmij1961 · ‎08-10-2025

Exactly 🙂

Maintaining an already long installed system is definitely an operational cost . If E2E security were to fail or to be compromised Ebay would cease to trade immediately . They are duty bound to maintain it at their cost and not quote some kind of fake protection insurance as a reason to fund it . Ebay are perfectly entitled to fund via valid transparent service costs such as properly named buyer or sellers fees . As said their are probably so reluctant to do that as it would take some of the fake shine of "Free to Sell" mantra as it would clearly show they have just renamed the sellers fee to a buyers fee

Its not only misleading to customers its probably breaches FSA rules as well and the more you think it through the worse it gets .

The only thing buyers fee could be said to be as protection for Ebay to mitigate the risk they have created by implementing SD. With SD the seller is no longer responsible for delivery and from a basic legal point of view all the Seller has to do is hand to the courier for that legal responsibility to be absolved . Ebay get round this by changing T&C's but this in itself is one monumental reason for sellers to stop selling as what BPF actually does in practice is increase the risk on the seller as they have no choice to accept Ebay's refunds and returns for which the seller has no control .

The VTD set-up is very clever but has limited application and only really works or is safe for lower value items . At some stage Ebay will need to work out old model was so much better . Copying VTD was never the answer to Ebay's problems , they just needed leadership that understood their business and not some else's 🙂

rugbyguy1960 · ‎08-10-2025

Please can we keep the posts from discussing the pros and cons of vi**ed and avoid technical posts.

It would be a great shame for the thread to be closed because of differences of opinion, and because of posts straying away from the problems and issues that SD is still managing to cause users of the platform.

THANK YOU.

sunflowers4me59 · ‎08-10-2025

I have an issue with "simple delivery". Somebody suddenly bid on 2 fabric listings, 1 was a parcel, so is simple delivery, 1 is LL so custom postage. I quickly messaged buyer to say I couldn't change parcel, so to avoid 2 different postage, I could cancel both listings and relist both together as buy it now. Buyer agreed so that's what I did, ( both in same simple delivery parcel). I looked a little later, yes buyer bought again, but had also bought another piece with custom postage, and bought 2 more as collection only to make up for the other postage!!

All now going in 1 parcel, and I asked buyer to send me the qr code number for the collection ones even though they will go in the parcel. Which he has done.

How on earth is that "simple delivery "?? Course I couldn't do an invoice because 1 of the listings was "simple delivery " and the message came up that eBay deals with anything "simple delivery "!!

department28 · ‎09-10-2025

It's all such a palaver now, especially if someone buys more than one item. You have to go all round the houses to do things that were so much easier when the seller was in charge of their own postage arrangements.