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.

[diy-genius]

Same here, been selling odds and end for family and friend for 25 years. Ebay police just keep making changes that are ill conceived and  always very badly executed. My current listings will run until finished then that is my time with ebay at an end. 

[*maetrix*]

Totally..I think i've become lazy with my internet shopping over the last few years..always used to go to ebay or Amazon and that was it..the way this site has annoyed the hell out of me over the last few months i've started looking elsewhere - and found other sites/online shops selling stuff far cheaper.

If anything ebay have given me a wake-up call to not use their site when it comes to buying.

[theelench]

I hope you have a wonderful weekend   --  Don't get burned 🙂

I do agree with you when you say buyers and sellers should both use multiple sites and your reasons for saying that.  But it seems to me that the direction of travel for both buyers and sellers is all one way,  downwards, as sites adopt what is most advantageous to them.  In the end buyers and sellers end up with the worst of all worlds.

Ebay has taken up BPF, SD and compulsory payment holds from vinted.  Yet I've been reading (elsewhere) that vinted is expensive for postage costs to buyers under their version of SD and the seller is expected to accept (much) lower offers to compensate and get quick sales.  Isn't that the direction ebay is travelling in ?  Making more on postage deals and held funds than seller fees.

I've also been reading that returning badly described items is more difficult on vinted than ebay as the buyer has to cover the cost.  How soon will the MBG be watered down to bring it into line with that lower standard ?

Yes there's always change and development but increasingly it seems that the winner is always the site and the trajectory of the service offered is always downward, whether as a buyer or a seller.  I think that will only get worse as all sites adopt each others most profitable tactics and become increasingly the same as each other with no incentive to improve.   Leaving buyers and sellers with little real choice between them.

[cobwebcottage]

'Again and again it's been said about other sites  --  They're easy to use.  Ebay isn't easy for buyers or sellers any more.'

Tosh.

Speaking as a BS/ PS, buyer and seller. It's as easy as pie.

[dantwocats]

Day two and no notice ,,no collection ? was of time

[dantwocats]

Being a very untechy person ebay works very well apart from simple delivery (well it works ok ) but its the postage price interference / overcharging  /moving items to larger parcel sizes/ still no letter or larger size option & the mushroom management approach to all sellers that's been the pain and stress theses last few months ,oh and the time wasted, and now the book a collection that has not worked !!

[punzel9072]

Just as sellers shouldn’t use just one site, neither should buyers - as has always been the case.

All very well but when you are buying specific niche collectable items, they don't often come up for sale, and when they do they are uniquely available from that site. You don't get a choice. The particular items that I collect are almost only ever available on eBay (or were before the mass exodus of sellers) and of course at physical auctions where I also bid.

It's ok if you're buying any old tat, yes you can get that anywhere.

[ja142868]

I've just sold my first SD item, and the order total is completely crazy, is it even legal.

Item sold for £10.65 but my sales total states £15.17.

The break down is item price + postage (RM 48hr Small parcel £3.38 + PBF £1.14) 

So for theoretical tax purposes my gross transaction price is showing as the higher price but what I actually receive is the net item price.

I've seen some smoke and mirrors accounting in my life, but this completely takes the biscuit. I've never seen such a confusing piece of BS.

So theoretically should I have to make a IR statement, this invoice has increased my earnings by 30%.

Ive already had to make a RM lost item claim under BPF and I was actually refunded the gross amount ( item price + custom postage + BPF) due to the way the invoice is laid out.

Why is ebay making legal invoices that include a fee that the seller has no involvement with.

I was discussing SD policy with a friend and have come to the conclusion,  that it is most likely against consumer law.

Ebay will continue profiting off it until the regulator steps in and issues a reprimand. 

This will most likely be a fine that is actually less than the revenue raised from this whole SD debacle 

[richard-1977]

Ok Simple Delivery is compulsory for me now, and I hate it. That means I won't be listing anything else, along with thousands of others. Let's see how long it takes before the u-turn happens.

[department28]

 It feels like the 'Golden Age' of eBay is well & truly over, mainly due to this unsuccessful copying of what others are doing, rather than finding ways to promote their unique-ness, and 'enhance' what they were already doing right. I'm certainly finding it more complicated/time-consuming to find what I want to buy, or to sell a couple of measly items now & again.

The frustration with eBay for some/many? of us, is that it used to be so good - it never really occurred to me to buy or sell elsewhere. Now they seem to be on a mission to lose as much loyalty & goodwill from their so-called 'valued customers', in as short a time as possible...

[honeymonster007]

A lot of business talk going on there

[punzel9072]

Today I received an email from eBay User Experience Research Team: 
Invitation to Participate in eBay Research Provide feedback on your selling experience

Most of the questions were related to 'Simple Delivery' and there was an 'any other comments' field to which I responded:

I do not like simple delivery because some of the postage prices are dearer than from Royal Mail direct; it is too expensive to send cheap (under £10 value) large letter items using a tracked service when Royal Mail will compensate if lost with a just proof of posting; tracking low value items it totally unnecessary and makes them prohibitively expensive for buyers which is why I have stopped listing around 500 items on eBay.

[sunflowers4me59]

I was just going to say I also got the email you got, I really let them have it! I also told them to read the community boards if they really want to know people's feelings about simple delivery.

[punzel9072]

I was just going to say I also got the email you got, I really let them have it! I also told them to read the community boards if they really want to know people's feelings about simple delivery.

Good 🙂 I could have given them a long exhaustive list of what they've done to make eBay so bad now, but decided to keep it brief in the hope they may actually read it.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

you are kidding, e bay was not easy when i first started and it is the same now.  I only started really getting comfortable with it when i discovered the forum and have had over the past years taken many a useful tip from here, NOT from the site itself.  Trying to list something now is not simple either and as for trying to get the search engine to actually come up with what you want as opposed to what they want you to buy.....   I have got familiar with e bid much quicker than i did e bay, all it needs now is buyers.

[cobwebcottage]

I list every day. I have also listed with SD. It takes a few minutes once you have taken your pics ( and I don't use AI).

I buy items I want/need regularly.

Best of luck with Ebid if you have the time to wait for sales to happen.

[veryprint]

It’s easy for you to not have the problems with simple delivery as you are a business seller, with items basically well above the prices that private sellers items are listed. With smaller less expensive items try negotiating the minefield that is simple delivery where buyer protection and forced delivery options mean small low value items end up at an inflated prices. I wonder how many business sellers would be up in arms if EBay’s ridiculous new selling restrictions were forced on them. I refuse to carry on listing and hope that EBay can see how they are killing off the hand that feeds them. I await some kind of u-turn, but fear that there won’t be one as they have contracts with Evri and Royal Mail. I remain extremely frustrated.

[cobwebcottage]

You obviously haven't read my posts on the board as you would know that I and a lot of other business sellers also have private accounts to sell off our own unwanted possessions'. 

Last week, I sold 3 items on my private account.

No problems, no issues, recycled, money in pocket.

[sunflowers4me59]

I tried to keep it brief but once they opened the floodgates, it all spilled out.  I never used to answer these surveys, now every time they ask my opinion, I give it, hoping they might eventually listen. 

[veryprint]

I have had Ebay alter my listings against my wishes. It cost me the postage cost and to top it off they refunded the buyer the postage for the simple delivery unused label.  I followed the customer services instructions and it was a total mess. Had to argue that the tracked delivery had been received and told them that I was initially advised that payment would be in my account after two days, which it wasn’t until I contacted them again. Do you consider that is easy. I have been selling on EBay for twenty years and never, but never have I been treated as I was when I last sold. You carry on with your head in the sands, as you obviously think everything is just rosy.