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.

[parsley2003]

Ah am allowed a like ! It will end that way they brought this one in for new ideas to raise money and alienate people seeing things weren't going well last year. Laying off 1,000 people and replacing them with bots hasn't really been a great success 

[rugbyguy1960]

Hopefully they'll learn quicker than their AI bots to put this mess right.

[parsley2003]

It all makes sense if the CS lot are putting their brains into the bots, my bank has a brilliant one that works. Everything done on the cheap here and they think it's going to be a posh upmarket place

[michaelhampsononline]

Me too. I'll leave my ebay shop up while I get organised, but before the 7th (the date when ebay would otherwise, without my consent, and with no information about the size or weight of my items, guess all my postage rates and charge my customers random incorrect amounts) I will have moved so that my customers will have the choice of either buying direct from my low-tech hand-built shop (using Squareup.com Payment Links - sign up now, it's brilliant, it also converts your mobile phone into a contactless payment terminal), or buying on Amazon if they prefer to pay Amazon's approximately 100% markup for the security of a known name. At least Amazon is clear and comprehensible for both buyer and seller. With ebay, fees and postage are now both utter chaos, for both buyer and seller, and not worth the grief at any price. Bye bye.

[manyjamjar]

@rugbyguy1960 

When managed payment was introduced, I didn't list anything for 3-4 years.

I'm in the same boat. wait wait wait and see.

I have few concerns. If they come out to be true, I'll be waiting and seeing 😂😂😂

[rugbyguy1960]

Great post and thank you. My only fear would be that I have never been a business seller and never really want to become a business seller. At my age being a private seller worked great until this new upcoming policy change which is 1 policy change to many.

[wintersdawn1]

Agreed, its not artificial intelligence but genuine stupidity!

[rugbyguy1960]

I hope everything turns out ok. When and if this becomes user friendly again then I might become a seller again.

[gmij1961]

I have just raised an official complaint to Ebay and have made it clear that I cannot and will not sell on Ebay unless I can opt out of simple delivery . It has blatant flaws for regular sellers .  Even If I knew I would always get Royal Mail home collection , I lose the key ability to manage collections etc 

The more Ebay get hit with complaints the more likely they are to to get their act together

[dfernand101]

The other thing to consider is that if you become a business seller then Ebay later down the line may request you to open up a Limited company in order to continue using the Ebay account to sell. This happened to a friend of mine in Europe that got enticed onto an Ebay 'Business' selling account  due to too many restrictions on a Private seller Ebay account and then months later they obliged him to either set up a limited company to continue selling or to quit selling. He worked out that it was too expensive for him to set up a limited company so he quit selling on Ebay before they could enforce it; also some strange bug prevented him from reverting back to private seller on the account. I think he was in mainland Europe but he somehow subscribed to the Ebay business subscription via Ebay COM which is the U.S. version of Ebay not Ebay E.U. so his Ebay account was stuck in limbo and no-one knew or could fix it !

[rugbyguy1960]

That is so unfair. So know people will have to try and remember what posts they want to give kudos to from day to day.

[sgeezus]

But what to do if you work full time and your only option is to drop the parcel at local collection point? ebay AI is forcing Royal Mail, which is out of option unless someone is patient enough to wait till Saturday.

Then what to do if your buyer s desperate and wants the item within 24hrs? Where's DPD or UPS for larger/heavier items, where's Yodel or InPost for local parcel drop off 24/7?

Should I now ember the cost of bubble wrap, cardboards, sellotape, etc. onto the listings? These things does not grow on trees and comes at a price.

What a massive cluster... k

If ebay wants private sellers out now, just say it.

[rugbyguy1960]

That really is underhanded. I seriously cannot trust or believe them anymore.

[edwardian-dreams]

The bots only do what they’re programmed to , so not sure about that lol

Unfortunately for both vinted and eBay they’re trying to amalgamate two completely different systems, that of couriers vs RM

its not as bad on vinted because there’s a huge range of couriers at very cheap prices (cheaper than here) and who are quite flexible on size and weight  too , and finally they integrated Royal Mail too and they only charge 3.39 for tracked 48!!

[rugbyguy1960]

So very true. They obviously don't want to just say they no longer want to bother anymore with the very people who helped get them to this size. Hopefully even they will realise that no structure will survive without a good foundation.

[rugbyguy1960]

That really isn't bad as for a large envelope collected RM have been charging 2.70 dealing with them direct.

[rugbyguy1960]

I have said since the beginning of this year that if Simple Delivery became compulsory that would be the final straw of me being a seller. So on the 6th any of my listings left will be removed by me and until and if ebay becomes user friendly for private sellers again then that's me done as a seller.

[wiganyankeeron]

How about sellers whose items only warrant an ordinary sized envelope  i.e. people selling postcards?? which with a card strengthener, may just go over the 100gm limit?? and sell for £1.00 to £2.00 plus another 70+p and then the exorbitant postage cost i.e. £2.73 Who is going to but them now... No one is going to pay £5.00 for something only worth £1.00...

[rugbyguy1960]

I've done what I can to try and be fair to buyers. I got rid of the best offer option. I stopped listing items as a auction. I pay for the things like extra bubble wrap and envelopes out of my pocket. My reward for that is SD becoming compulsory and so on the 6th I'll remove my unsold listings and that's me done as a private seller.

[edwardian-dreams]

You will still be able to sell items like that and do your own postage s eBay said they’re keeping the custom postage option available for them 

but if you use a stamp to send you have to wait longer for your money

re the 75p plus 4 it’s disgusting as it could have been tapered or just not charged on very low value items

and all for the luxury of having  24/7 customer support

as that’s the only thing the buyer fees are allegedly for 

everything else people always had 

and the more expensive your item the more expensive the customer support gets 

was looking at an item today and bpf was 66£ hahahahaha

what a joke