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.

[*maetrix*]

Now now,don't take the urine or be sarcastic...it's not their fault that they can't do their jobs.

[lavenderthimblebunny]

Naively, I hoped ebay would field staff who have access to answers, or provide an update however narrow  its scope.

My optimism scares me.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

wonder why this is the latest comment on this thread, It is now 09.55 on the 29th!!  Normally there would have been a couple of pages to read or is it some kind of glitch??  Of course that would be unusual for this site, right!

[*maetrix*]

Think it seems to be the norm in this day and age that a lot of them seem to be incapable of doing their jobs properly.

This seems to be from the top down at ebay.

[dantwocats]

people have run out of nice things to say about simple delivery ,all the others get-----------

[suema_62]

Had an email now saying 5th June everything 'Simple' Delivery.  As bored I asked CS what happens to sales that were previously signed for. 'Oh we dont do signed for'. Option is not to use the provided label and buy your own signed for which of course you wont have been compensated for.....and add that tracking.  Wonder what will happen when the first expensive sale goes walkabout and ebay reimburse??? or will they say 'should have sent 'signed for'......... I did point out what was so wrong with listing and stipulating how much postage would be and get paid and THAT was SIMPLE.  Maybe they think we all have little metal boxes with flags on for our post in the UK.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

They do not think, they just plan the next money grab regardless of the results!   I actually feel relief now that they have forced me on to SD and i have taken all my items off.   Changes need to be beneficial to both sides to succeed properly and some of the latest changes definitely do not come into that catergory.

[sumnites]

Went to edit a listing and lower the price on an item now in Simple Delivery. (It was a jacket that i dont think would creep under 1 kg) The listing said the buyer would pay £5.15 or more depending on post method chosen (I have excluded Evri).  Royal Mail second class with tracking number is @ £3.90 from PO. Little wonder no one is buying anything from ebay now. This fee is excluding the BPF which is on top.  Pointless trying free delivery and adding RM second to price as BPF is added to that.

[sumnites]

Great have sorted the postage gouging issue....you have to review EVERY listing....check postage charged.....if more than the usual small parcel up to 2kg you have to edit and change the parcel size to small 16 cm on EVERY listing as good old 'Simple' charges for medium. Simple also charges for medium parcel on 1kg items o have to change to 16 cm.

[sumnites]

To anyone unfortunate enough to still try selling compulsory  'Simple' is only allowing 3 working days max for dispatch which some may know.  Tough on 'net zero' forcing travel to hubs as cant wait a couple of days for anymore sales (we wish) Tough if your 'hub' isnt open 7 days a week.  Tough if no car. Tough if rural and rubbish wifi.  Changed listings by ebay default to 2 days unless you realise!  Thanks ebay for the heads up ..not... Try bulk edit and lots of more days options available! yay! submit and listings still default to 2 days including those changed to 3.....

[forestfeline62]

We get very frustrated here because when we go to drop off parcels at the evri parcel drop off which is in a Tesco express ,many times the shop can't take anymore parcels because the bags are full and not been collected ,this happened again  yesterday and  the shop had taken the parcel label machine away and the staff behind the counter said try again in an hour  ,the parcels might have been taken by then .We hadn't got time to wait and there was no point going home to go back to shop in the hope the parcels had been collected later ,the next evri drop of point is a few miles away so to use the fuel to go there is then not making the postage cheaper .We have noticed how quiet our Main Post office has been since SD and every one must be having to use evri because regularly the sacks are full and so no more parcels can be taken in .

  So it means having to  make a trip the next day to try & post said parcels which isn't always Ideal but there is no concession made for being unable to post parcels ,2 days or you get a mark on your account if you are late ,totally wrong .

[crn303]

Very frustrating and is it going to get any better ?
As several have previously posted the despatch of items sold is so more straightforward and simpler using the local post office.

Surely eBay should make more options available, for example increase size and weight on Custom Postage via the post office.

[johnwash1]

I think my visibility is so low now, I'm only getting about one sale a week.  I've not been forced onto SD yet, but I daren't end and relist for fear of it.  Will ebay notify me when they switch listings over to it?  Or will the first time I'll know be when I've made a sale and can't book postage with RM?

[1956glyn]

You will know when custom postage is no longer an option or Ebay without warning just flip your listings without warning onto SD 😞

[akemp1]

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@crn303 wrote:

Surely eBay should make more options available, for example increase size and weight on Custom Postage via the post office.

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The main thing they need to do is take the lower weights (or all ) Large Letter out of scope of SD (or get SD to provide a standard untracked LL label if under £20 as it would still have delivery confirmation) as it makes some things uneconomic when you are stuck with the cost of a tracked parcel rate (plus the relatively high 75p fixed element of the buyer tax).

However that would be no help to their unreliable friend Evri would it?

Ebay would rather people buy an inappropriately expensive postage service if they can get a kickback.

It would be impossible to hide their circa 50p-£1 target profit margin in a 100g/250g large letter label.

But then it's going to be costing them 75p+ in missed buyer fees on items that are not purchased because the postage service is unsuitable and expensive. And worse people will signup elsewhere to sell their small stuff so it's a killer for user loyalty.

[moonlight-rhapsody]

I feel your frustration and it makes me really cross on your behalf.  The utter stupidity and hypocrisy of Simple Delivery was highlighted for me by a new poster starting a thread asking “How does selling work - So someone buys your thing, sends you money and their address then you go down to the post office and send it? Is that how it works on Ebay?”   It brought it back to me how genuinely simple selling on ebay used to be.  I’m so cross that those in charge have such contempt for their customers that they thought it was acceptable to impose on us an extremely complex system in place of the genuinely simple one.  And to add insult to injury, they called it “Simple Delivery” 😡

Heads should roll, and they probably will in due course - along with the obligatory multi-million dollar payoff.  How can ebay expect us to have anything but contempt for them when they have such contempt for us.  And I say that as someone who used to be an unofficial "brand ambassador" for ebay until SD was introduced.

[grapecr-30]

Well said...!!

[grapecr-30]

They are just making it pointless to sell anything low cost...

[akemp1]

I'm having a(nother) clearout this weekend and just took a couple of bags of low value DVDs and computer games maybe 40 in total to the charity shop as with the 75p+ buyer tax and looming prospect of overly expensive SD on Large Letter sized items then it's just not worth it anymore. I could have taken them to CEX but they would have only given me around 1-10p each which might have covered the parking costs for the half hour it might take them to process them.

I could have listed them at the clothing marketplace at £1+ each and maybe I would have got a few people buying bundles which might have been worthwhile but then even their postage rates start at £2.29 and I really can't be bothered with small stuff anymore since the changes to ebay this year. Even as a joblot it was unlikely to be worth it. Life is too short.

That charity shop is popular, does good trade and to be fair with selling my unwanted stuff on ebay I have been insufficiently charitable for the past 20 years (before that I volunteered on a Sunday shift in a charity bookshop for 3 years - mostly to read all their books!) so it's time to give back and move on.

I was careful to only give them stuff that was saleable and not lumber them with disposal costs. I don't know how much they will put out for sale or how much will get passed onto WoB etc as I understand that some charities do that these days with excess stock.

[infohelps]

Have you tried Music Magpie?  I sold a lot of old CDs through them recently, (they were listed for sale on eBay but not any more!) in 4 separate parcels.  Some they only offered as little as 9p but a couple were around £2.  I made a lot of space and around £40.  You just need to find a box and package them securely.  The postage is free.  They email you a QR code which they scan at the post office, they print a label and you're done.   I don't have a smart phone, so I forwarded the email to a friend who came with me and they just scanned her phone, but I think you can print the QR code out.  It was really easy and the money is in your account within a couple of days.  However, you have to key in the barcode of your CD to get the price, and a lot of mine didn't have barcodes which they recognised.  I took those to the charity shop.