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.

[slipinsidethishouse]

They should call it complicated delivery as I don't understand any of it. I'll be quitting ebay next month as well. They've ruined it. I hope they lose millions.

[rugbyguy1960]

I agree. When business sellers only have a majority of other business sellers it will hit them too and they'll realise that the control Freaks at ebay have now gone to far.

[clearingmyshelves2025]

I've already dropped a note to Ebay saying I won't be selling after 15th. 

[rugbyguy1960]

I'm just going to remove the last listings that I have on the 15th as I won't be a part of this madness plus after the 15th I'll be buying less due to the amount of private sellers listings becoming smaller and smaller.

[slipinsidethishouse]

I'll be quitting ebay too but can anyone recommend ebid? I prefer taking my package to the post office and have never used a QR code in my life. 

[clearingmyshelves2025]

Same here. Never used a QR code either. 

[rugbyguy1960]

Same here aswell. The decline of ebay being a good platform for private sellers to sell on will well and truly start on the 15th April.

[papso22]

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@rugbyguy1960 wrote:

I'm just going to remove the last listings that I have on the 15th as I won't be a part of this madness plus after the 15th I'll be buying less due to the amount of private sellers listings becoming smaller and smaller.

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You need to remove them all from the 6th, ebay will start adding SD to live listings from the 7th.

[paul-and-marley]

Yeah im out as well i think. I sell mainly bits of pottery collected over the past 30 years and a lot of smaller items under 1kg wont fit in Royal Mail's 16cm max height boxes and i refuse to be pushed onto Evri. I use Yodel/Collectplus and never had any issues with them. Doesn't appear they are available to be selected. What a mess its all become. Just too much effort now. 

[rugbyguy1960]

Thank you for that info. Much appreciated. Obviously common sense is something ebay decision makers need to learn.

[lovewoodbridge]

Over the last 15 years, I have spent many thousand pounds on ebay, amassing my post card and cigarette card collection. That is now over as I will not pay £2.70 delivery for a £2.00 post card. Nor will anyone else with any sense.

Having retired last year and now with more time, I decided to sell off parts of my collections and the many duplicates. I currently have 1550 cards for sale and I will be deleting all of these in the next two weeks if ebay do not see sense and change their minds on low value items.

I am more sad than angry at ebays change of direction. . I find it completely baffling to discard so many loyal customers. Just, what on earth are they thinking?

[rugbyguy1960]

I have only used Royal Mail because my items are small and not really high value as they are signed cd's from the collection that I built up and Royal Mails collection worked perfectly.

[myoldpaperclutter]

They will only stop once they’ve ruined everything for everyone. I preferred it when I paid a fee and was free to send how I pleased. I really hope Simple Delivery goes horribly wrong. It’s a shame RM signed up to the scheme as they had the leverage to stop this money making delivery scheme. I wish someone could demonstrate to me how it’s 20% cheaper.  Utterly appalling🤯

[rugbyguy1960]

I am the same as you but instead of post cards I sell from my collection of Signed CD's. I too am sad that this yet another policy change coming is the end of me as a private seller.

[rugbyguy1960]

RM were crazy to sign up to this madness which is doomed when SD will be the final straw for so many private sellers.

[andha-21]

I wish someone could demonstrate to me how it’s 20% cheaper. Utterly appalling

@myoldpaperclutter 

It's 20% cheaper based off eBay's most expensive tariff rates.

There are 3rates

Both couriers available is the cheapest 

Evri only middle 

Royal Mail only, the most expensive 

But it's a trap.

Evri only is impossible, there are loads of places they don't deliver to

& they left a backdoor for themselves that allows them to override any settings you make, so if you select Royal Mail only they can still use Evri anyway.

All that you really accomplish is making your buyer pay the highest rate.

[aphystykqa]

I am totally FURIOUS !!! 😡

Ever since I first joined Ebay back in 2003, Every single deal I have ever done has been carried out by posting parcels to buyers using my local Post Office and using the Royal Mail. I have Never used any other form of postal service, I have never gone online and even tried to use Royal Mail click and collect, I completely avoided the GSP (Global Shipping Program) service, also, never used Evri either - and all I want to do is to carry on as I always have been doing, but Ebay (through their own selfishness) - has destroyed it all. 😡

I did try to have my previous rant about it on my own post, which you can see here -

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/If-the-Post-Office-is-your-be-all-and-end-all-for-sel...

But, all to no avail. I did read Warnings from people posting in this Ebay community forum, that very soon it would become mandatory with this stupid Simple Delivery system, which shouldn't have the word Simple in it at all, as to me, it is all so very complicated and alien.

I want to keep selling on Ebay, I really do, but this particular change has either made me want to jump ship and permanently sell elsewhere, or, simply to LIE and transition to a business seller, simply so I can carry on using the Royal Mail and the Post Office counter service. But lets face it. Even Business sellers may soon be forced to transition to Simply Delivery as well as Private Sellers, so for myself to transition to a Business Seller may only buy me a few extra months - maybe a Year ?? - before it becomes mandatory for every Ebay seller.

[rugbyguy1960]

Ebay should have announced this on the 1st April that way it would become one of the worst jokes of all time.

[rugbyguy1960]

I too am furious 🤬 and sad at this madness. I would be happy to continue selling on ebay as a private seller if their decision makers had a ounce of sense between them.

WHY FIX WHAT WASN'T BROKEN FOR A LOT OF PRIVATE SELLERS.