New payment schedule

[scaryme75]

This is just designed it would appear to make money for eBay! Previously I could use funds to purchase postage but now funds don’t appear until 2 days after the item is delivered, since when does this happen on any other purchase! I will see how it goes but I am probably moving to Vinted!!

[tressygirl]

Under the new Buyer Protection Fee ruling pending funds can be used for purchasing postage labels and making any necessary refunds.

@scaryme75 

[parsley2003]

This is not working at all i have given £30 refunds for overpaid postage and they have all been taken from the available balance not pending. As for purchasing postal labels it's an absolute mess so i still buy direct from RM because i have collection for everything and only large letter or parcel has the collection option and not both at once from what i have seen. If SD becomes mandatory i'm definately gone. It seems that now we will be able to choose between RM and Evri but unless we allow both options Ebay will charge the buyer more and put them off because they will think the seller is conning them. For 21 years i have been a fair seller and always combined postage and there's no way i will let buyers pay 10 x 75p and postages if they buy 10 items. They might allow combined entered at listing but until you know what they are buying the size, weight and packing needed it's not possible to do it that way. 

[zoomingmouse]

I'm not sure if you meant to offer collection yourself, but I noticed that this week, for the first time in ages, when I relisted a few items, most of them were suddenly offering collection as well as postage.

I had to go in to each listing & revise the postage options to just postage only so something had changed without my input.

Combining does look like a bit of a nightmare, I agree.

The only way around avoiding the 75p per item buyer charge would probably be to create one listing for a buyer with the items they want.

I'd put the price stupidly high, but with the Best Offer added & advise that the price agreed would be accepted so no one else would be likely to buy.

Way more work though... not sure EBay have really thought this through...

[tressygirl]

Others actually reporting this too,  that is,  if there are available funds,  then postage is taken from that first, and not the pending funds.

If there is nothing in Available funds ,  postage can be funded now,  from pending funds.

@parsley2003 

[parsley2003]

I won't buy postage through Ebay for the reasons i stated it's the refunds i'm not happy about. People trust me and pay without requesting invoice so i combine and give a refund 

[parsley2003]

Yes every other listing i have to change from collection and postage to postage only am deaf no use someone trying to collect from me

[gorragerritgone]

"funds don’t appear until 2 days after the item is delivered".

Sorry scary, but this isn't necessarily true. I and plenty of others are not receiving payments even after 2 days after delivery due to a) Royal Mail are NOT updating delivery status after a parcel etc has been delivered and b) Ebay are NOT updating delivery status even if Royal Mail HAVE updated delivery status to 'delivered'. This has been going on for a long time but ebay do NOTHING about it. It wasn't a problem before the changes but now it is. I now have 6 items that have been delivered, all several days ago but are not marked as delivered by ebay. I have received feedback for 3 of the items and yet, days after delivery and feedback, I do not have the payment in my balance. As a result of this, I have no money for my goods.

[b1tsandb0bs]

Ebay are refusing my money back. one parcel posted on the 8th February was never scanned, the buyer has the parcel but ebay told me I have to wait up to 30 days to get my money back even though left feedback I was told this was meaningless. There the buyer has the purchase and I have nothing. It is not 2 days, I will have to wait for 30 days. The blame is with Royal Mail not scanning parcels, and I am being penalised because of these 4th February rules. 

[zoomingmouse]

Very unlikely a private seller would be using Amazon Logistics Europe, but that isn't updating either, stating 'running behind'.

Maybe Ebay's tracking page is not working at all again?

A nightmare for us private sellers waiting for funds when we've done our bit to get the parcel out the door promptly.