Not so 'Simple Delivery'

[zamnocob]

It would appear that eBay 'Simple Delivery' announced with great fanfare by eBay over the preceding weeks, is not actually effective for ALL private seller listings as of 15/4/25.

I just had a chat with eBay Support whom advise new listings will be 'ramped' into simple delivery from 15/4/25 and that existing listings will be phased in from 23/4/25 and fully implemented by 28/4/25!

Why don't you tell us that eBay in your elaborate simple delivery news release?

I think the real truth is that eBay over burdened themselves with the task at hand.

[jckl1957]

It is a mess.

And it is inconsistent.

I have items I listed last Saturday where I had no choice but to use Simple Delivery, and then I listed 2 or 3 items in the middle of this week and was able to leave my postage options as they were - RM Large Letter or 48 hour tracked.

I plan to carry on selling and have decided to accept (not embrace!) Simple Delivery, but the uncertainty of the past few days has been a bit stressful.

Although, as I do like to say, 'It's only Ebay.'  And most of us have more important things to fret and stress about.

[caf_uk]

Couldn't agree more.....yes the changes are idiotic and senseless (from our point of view of course) but at the end of the day all these sellers that are shouting 'I'M NOT GOING TO SELL ON EBAY ANYMORE' are merely . 'cutting their noses off to spit their faces' 

Things change, not always for the better, but those that survive are those that learn to ADAPT...

[simplybygone]

I hope eBay add Yodel to their simple delivery. I sent an email of complaint about SD and they replied implying other couriers would be added.

[jckl1957]

I think once you discount the business sellers using private accounts who could easily upgrade and avoid BPF and SD, and all those members who are going to end their listings (at some future, unspecified date ...), it will be a small minority of sellers who actually leave.

I have had a look at other selling sites recently but adapt the policy below:

If the grass looks greener on the other side... Stop staring. Stop comparing. Stop complaining & Start watering the grass you're standing on

[roberpalme_236]

They could do with a new advertising campaign:

Ebay 'We over promise and under deliver'.

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