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.

[mermaidwiggle]

This is what I am learning as I read through all these messages. Many are not in it to make money but to have a clear out, or to send once treasured posessions off to new owners who will love them for more years to come. And it's something to do for many too, taking pride in the listing and joy in the sale.

I've had certain searches saved for years, and sometimes they bear fruit. For clothes I have favourite brands at different times and haven't bought new clothes (except undies and socks) for years. I was about to start selling some of my clothes as well as a load of vintage things I've collected (now that I know more about them and which are my favourites, and which I can pass on). 

But my nearest Evri shop is a mile away, and to use the Post Office I'd need to take my parcels to work and pop out in my lunch break. I work five days a week so wouldn't always be able to fulfil the 2-3 day despatch time - and I'm not home for collection. With  my large letter items I could print my own labels (always bought from the RM site not eBay) and pop them into the Post Box or take them to a local shop (just 100 yards away) that takes in RM items (and will print labels too).

The number of items on my searches has definitely gone down considerably in the past month. I'm a disappointed buyer too.

I've seen many many changes at eBay over the years as I'm sure many of you have, but this is actually very sad as well as infuriating.

[lucy_farmer]

'Am I to understand payment will not be forwarded unless positive feedback is received?'

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You'll always get your payment- time scale, from 2 dys after delivery to 14 days after- feedback just speeds the process up.

'And even if I choose RM will it be changed to Evri? '

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If, like an awful lot of others, you don't want to use Evri, you can opt out of using them.😊

But you can't just pay with cash in the post office to post ; you have to download/print out your postage 'label' and stick that on your parcel.

[honeymonster007]

Have Evri turned off here and every item that has sold has gone via RM, non have produced a Evri label so far, but that's not to say it wont happen though.

Payment clears 2 days after delivery, some say it clears after receiving feedback but haven't experienced that yet.

Your A4 letter should be around £2.70 and you would need to take the QR to the post office if you haven't got a printer. A printer would be ideal though as you could just drop the letter off in the nearest letter box and they should scan it once it reaches the sorting office. Maybe corrected on that though.

You do have to juggle the figures a little to get the prices to look about right but someone has made a excellent  app that saves a lot of messing around.

eBay Fee Calculator - UK Buyer Protection Fees

The only pitfall I'v come across is offering free post, it can start to look messy as they take the post cost from your funds even if their pending, and waiting 5/6 days for your money can feel like a chore.

Give one try and see how you get on. I quite like it now as you don't have to go through all the custom postage options, but do understand others feel differently about it.

[honeymonster007]

Forgot to mention you can't do combined postage at the min, not without a lot of messing around.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

so why does it need to be put on the scales?

[kath3735_wxmjn]

you forgot to add that even though you can opt out of using EVRI e bay still retain the right to change it if they want to!!

[enormouschicken]

I'm only really falling down this hole due to finding out Royal Mail are bringing back the charge for collection, which sent me to these forums, which led me to post a comment, which led someone else to tell me about the SD changes.

On going back to check my items, all 103 remain listed with the postage prices I set when listing, I guess because I used the custom option? So that gets me a temporary reprieve I suppose. I doubt it'll be long before they remove that option too. It'd be good to have a schedule for all of this **** so that I can delist everything at the appropriate time, send ebay a strongly worded email, and ride off into the sunset to sell elsewhere.

I get a warm glow from reading about the number of people on this thread who get the same thing out of listing on ebay as me, and a warm glow from reading about the number of people who are prepared to sack ebay off to make a point.

If the worst happens (and ebay don't rethink) let's not worry too much eh? Something else will spring up. Something with a similar ethos to the one ebay originally held dear, and we'll all flock to it.

[sdrummond-uk]

I was told by my post office lady it is just so they have a weight in the system to print out the COP

If you drop it off at a post office locker it won't be weighed there.

[sdrummond-uk]

The way I read that T&C is if you only had Evri as your option and you get an order from a remote area ebay can change it to royal mail as they delivery everywhere for the same price. 

As the prices for Evri postage don't include remote fees.

Could be wrong though.

[honeymonster007]

Dunno...just out of habit maybe.

[ja142868]

Thank you ebay, you've done it again. Changed my RM large letter custom postage price to RM small parcel price.

I've now got to issue my 3rd over payment refund in a fortnight.

I've had a guts full of you tampering with my customers and messing with my listings.

On what planet does a 50 page paperback require a shoebox size packet.

I've spent my valuable time photographing, listing diligently and made sure the postage cost reflects the item size and weight. 

And then your ******* AI idiot algorithm alters it without my knowledge or consent.

[aymanalvi]

Ebay’s biggest Scam of 2025 called Simple Delivery and The biggest one is Buyer Protection and specialy when it applies to collection items and to top it off Ebay laying eggs on buyers funds for as long as they wish. Whicb they say 2 days which never the case. Beware, Bewise Ebay is not the same place.