31-03-2025 10:45 AM
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.
23-11-2025 6:59 AM - edited 23-11-2025 7:00 AM
Nothing surprises me here anymore.
I still create dummy listings to see what the latest situation is and it is still a complete joke.
Simple Delivery and all of the other things involved with Selling and buying on here really does show that this platform does not give a jot about it's users at all anymore, and it's only concern is making as much money as it can from it's users anyway it can.
23-11-2025 7:09 AM
I like your post.
Until common sense is actually used here i will not have Simple Delivery forced on me, and i will not let this platform have as much control over me as they seem to want.
A lot of other places are now getting the money i would have spent on here, and it's this platforms loss.
23-11-2025 7:21 AM
Same for me, now 80+ items to list, and I can't. I am not risking in Xmas time other messes, plus I am trying to save this Xmas, I am moving back on the other platform where I am, I don't enter there in a while, I need to update the listings or make them again if expired, I made Ebay my main one, I liked it more then the other ones, I can't believe I have been offered more elsewhere, and I used to move some sales here, now i have to tell buyers I cannot post here. What a mess. Ebay is going to lose lots of money with sellers like us not selling anymore, I can't believe they don't realise that. I also withdrawn all the money I happily kept and spent here, this might become my next ghost platform, plus there are so many few lists from private seller and I search a lot them, since I like not in fashion or original things, most of them shops does not sell it anymore. And maybe I had have more buyers this years cause I was one of the few to have Simple Delivery enforced just few days ago, so they bought from me, I am already looking for what I need or like elsewhere since here there is poor selection now. Just 3 pages, hence once there were more then 10, I couldn't check all the listings available, I had to stop at some point. I also saw in America there is another mess Ebay did with Business sellers, but it is not the Simple Delivery, I have to follow up, but it seems they had hidden cost for promoting adds, hidden until customer pay, and then they found out, promoting or not is the same. I just think they want to squeeze the most possible from Ebay in this year, and then they will sell it to someone else before they realise it is becoming unpopular, I don't explain all this desruption, Worldwide.
27-11-2025 9:41 AM
I cannot sell badminton raquets on here now as SD are trying to charge £12.97 postage to send (they are long) which I know buyers wont pay. So I posted one on vinted for £5 (less than here) the postage was £5.60 a great price for the item yet the buyer sent an offer for only £3 so not great on vinted either. The thing with vinted is to ask more for your items as buyers keep sending silly offers so can be misers just like here. & you cannot stop offers only ignore them but they you don't sell the said items it's catch 22
I've had so much hassle trying to sell other raquets on here with a buyer having to cancel an order due to postage being wrong & couldn't change it to a reasonable amount due to SD
27-11-2025 3:40 PM
To save me wading through this thread, has anyone had success with selling on here, and booking a royal mail collection where they bring a label?
If so, how did it work for you please? Better to do it on a laptop than android app? Cheers
27-11-2025 5:44 PM
This monster thread is more of a general vent, moan and rage-room about S.D. !
If you have a particular question and can't find an answer on any existing threads, you'll definitely have more luck starting your own 'question thread'....
But as far as your app or laptop query goes: thing seem to work better on a lap-top, on the whole...
27-11-2025 6:02 PM
I use a tablet. Sales are far slower since simple delivery. I have booked free royal mail collection with them bringing the label. After a sale, in order to get that you need to click on book collection before clicking on get label otherwise it doesn't work.