New Simple Delivery pricing!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

So they are introducing new pricing for SD from Feb 12th!   Methinks that mandatory SD is approaching rapidly....    Well goodbye E Bay when that happens.

[johnwash1]

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@jond1492 wrote:

Here's a link to what the REAL costs are to Sellers, if you try to opt-out of offering one of the Simple Delivery couriers:

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/Simple-Delivery/m-p/7814666#M717799

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Thanks.  I was sure that ebay would make use of their negotiating power to get cheaper prices from couriers  and share the benefit with sellers.  A win-win.  How wrong I was.

I've just booked a 12kg parcel through parcel2go, to be carried by ParcelForce (a company that I know from experience handles parcels with care and doesn't chuck them over evri 10' fence), for just £9.11.  It's too large to book with RM, which would otherwise be my normal choice.

Ebay can swivel ... on their office chairs.

[jer19671]

This is what I copy-and-pasted from Ebay's own information today (31st March 2025). I am a seller in the UK:

Eligibility

Simple Delivery is available for eligible listings by private UK sellers listing on eBay.co.uk (including the eBay app).

To send your items through the Simple Delivery programme, your packaged item will need to meet the following requirements:

• Weighs up to 20kg

• Dimensions:

  • For an Evri parcel shop drop-off – no side exceeds 120cm in length, the volume is no more than 245cm. To calculate the volume, add together the two shortest sides and multiply it by two, and then add the length

  • For a Royal Mail parcel shop drop-off or collection – dimensions should be up to 61cm x 46cm x 46cm

  • For locker drop-off – dimensions shouldn't exceed 66cm x 41cm x 38cm

• £750 or less (Buy It Now price, auction starting price or reserve price)

First, de-select Evri as an option. The reason needs no explanation, as Evri's incompetence is legendary! Secondly, note the part I highlighted in blue; now that you only have Royal Mail as an option, change the sizes of your items to 70cm x 50cm x 50cm. That way, your items automatically become ineligible for SD! When you do this (i.e. use those dimensions), you don't even get the option to use SD, as the item is now outside the maximum allowed for SD. Someone else suggested increasing the weight of your items to over 20kg. I suppose that's another way; however, Ebay could query why the (for example) stapler you're selling is 20kg+. But, with regard to the size (NOT the weight), you could simply say that you send items...even small items...in packages that large, as even Royal Mail can't lose something that size! Job's a good 'un! 😁

[jobdone*jean]

Same here. I’ve been selling since pretty much the start of eBay but this is a step too far.

[613lesw]

SD is annoying, it does not cover the actual costs when taking it to be posted at the PO counter -especially if sending it tracked as ebay recommends. Listed something today and had to fudge/input incorrect info for the SD to get anything close to the real proce I will pay for my small package postage. I came up as £3.71, then when finalized and looked at the listed, it was changed to £3.09 -without me doing anything to change it. Really annoying

[jckl1957]

If you are using Simple Delivery, you won't get the payment from the buyer and you should definitely not be paying to buy a label at the Post Office.

Ebay collect and keep the payment for postage from your buyer and send you a label to print or a QR code.

[brookheather]

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@613lesw wrote:

Listed something today and had to fudge/input incorrect info for the SD to get anything close to the real proce I will pay for my small package postage. 

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But you won't be paying anything for the postage - with SD the buyer pays and you just print out the label or use the QR code at the Post Office.

[jobdone*jean]

If my husband hadn’t bought a label at the post office his buyer would not have got the item they’d paid for. Despite eBay’s assurance that if you “use their suggested postage and it’s not enough then they have arranged to cover the excess” Royal Mail will not take an item with insufficient postage. I never thought they would to be honest, why would they. The whole thing is just a disaster.

[mabel.meadows]

Misleading comment there I think.

The buyer may be paying for the item and the p&p but ebay will deduct the postage charge from the sellers account so it's the seller paying.

If it is sent 'freepost' ebay will still deduct the postal charge from the sellers account.

[613lesw]

Same with posting package  via Parcel force. Buying online postage for large item (suitcase as ebay call it) -  Parcelforce charge £14.95 for 48 hr, they bring their own label so no need for a printer, Ebay comes up with £13.63 for same service.

[613lesw]

Agree - I was sent an ebay return label. for under 2kg weight.  However, the size specs, which cannot be changed, were insufficient for the item, which was around 70 cm long - no matter what ebay might say, the post office counter will not accept it as oversized - I took it to 2 separate post office branches and told they cannot accept it at counter due to item exceeding their maximum size.