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.

[wgwillia]

Or just go to your local post office

[greycat777]

I was told by an agent that I could no longer do this. All postage has to be via Simple Delivery where you buy the label from ebay.After speaking to her for ages I was more confused than ever. I'd rather just pack it all in.

[kateybuns20]

Hi, why don’t you object to having to separately do this, so another task, as well as costing more. When eBay were trying to compete with p2go they matched the £3.63 2kg drop off or collect. Collect was a massive bonus for me working all day agai every day, I just left parcels on the doorstep and they were gone when I got home. I don’t want to North Americadial back in to a different site to arrange collection


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[woo_shrimp_head]

This opting out was available for items under £10 but from today (21st June) I noticed it's no longer an option? Has anyone else seen this?

[punzel9072]

This opting out was available for items under £10 but from today (21st June) I noticed it's no longer an option? Has anyone else seen this?

I have just checked and I can still list letter-sized items under £10 and under 100g and choose custom postage thereby using an 87p stamp.

[woo_shrimp_head]

I was getting this up until yesterday but it's definitely disappeared for me now. I've tried clicking around everywhere and it just won't bring up the custom postage again, even for a small and cheap item. 😞

I feel like they must be phasing it out?

I can't even see anything on any official eBay documentation to suggest it should ever have been there (eBay seems to say mandatory Simple Delivery has been the only option since April?)... 😞

So rubbish and demotivating and pointless...

[akemp1]

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@woo_shrimp_head wrote:

So rubbish and demotivating and pointless...

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Sorry for your loss. Seems you are the latest victim of this insidious rollout.

They seem determined to push this unwanted junk on private ebayers to make them stop buying and selling  here or at least substantially reduce activity levels.

Their greed and stupidity  is causing them to cut open the bird that lays the golden eggs.

[theelench]

"So rubbish and demotivating and pointless."

I don't think that just applies to the fiasco that is SD at the moment.

It just about sums up the whole 'ebay experience' for so many private sellers now.

[nursediesel]

Just a little something off topic that sums up ebay at the moment. The fact that they constantly remind you to leave feedback for the buyer and what you get is a "Positive" button and nothing else. That shows you the intellectual power that ebay is flexing right now!

[johnwash1]

@woo_shrimp_head 

Maybe it depends what category you're listing in?

[buyincornwall]

I'm not having eBay tell me how I can post my items so once existing listings are sold I'm out. BYE SIMPLE EBAY XX

[woo_shrimp_head]

Possibly. It's so hard to know. 😞 Do you know if this occasional availability of custom postage - where you click around and for some items, if the category is right, the price is right, it's a waxing gibbous moon on the 13th day of the month, etc - is official or just a workaround?

If it's official, it'd be great to see the actual terms of when custom postage is allowed.

[billben2014]

Ive come to the realisation that Ebay do not want Private Sellers anymore.  Generally Ebay Private sellers have been using ebay for years and tend to sell a variety of different items and of differing weights & value (not drop shop items from a warehouse that the seller doesnt even posses) and so they dont fit in with Ebays vision of being nothing more than the middleman for 'drop shoppers'.  In addition of course Private Sellers are not governed by EU trading law so spoiling Ebays policy of giving even unscrupulous buyers their money back even when its a fraudulant claim. 

Well I had a good 12 years ...ill be looking for an alternative & im sure Ebay will be glad to see the back of me !