SIMPLE DELIVERY AND BUYERS PROTECTION FEE WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO SELLERS & BUYERS

[crn303]

Simple delivery will never be acceptable to sellers and buyers.

Inflated postage prices created by eBay just to make them more money.

What was wrong with sellers deciding for themselves how THEY wanted their items to be despatched … what service to use, preferred delivery source etc

eBay should NEVER have introduced Buyer Protection Fee.
It inflates the item price that the buyer sees and will obviously be a deterrent in achieving that sale.

Don't penalise the buyer.

I note on these community postings, a preference to return to the previous features such as buyers fees, occasional free listing promotions etc. 

Whilst this would make sense, I doubt if eBay would want to appear stepping down and admitting they have make mistakes.

If they were to compromise I feel they would regain the respect they have lost or is their greed more important to them ….Probably the latter.

[theelench]

if it's not going to have a huge effect then I think it's an even worse mistake by ebay.  Post Offices are under threat everywhere and there are a lot of people trying to keep their local one open.  Especially when the banks have deserted many towns and even city areas.

I appreciate what you're saying about adding to the inconvenience of running a business on a private account but I wonder if ebay has considered how many private sellers can, whenever possible, prefer to support their P.O by buying stamps/labels over the counter?  Trying to push them into printing their ebay labels and helping to close down their only local P.O isn't going to be popular IMO.

Still, it's their site and they can wreck it any way they want.

[crn303]

All sellers whether GENUINE (your favourite word) private or business are showing a definite drop in sales this past few weeks.
We are all on the sinking ship together.

Some us are waiting to see how eBay are going to be able to turn things around … or will they bother to !!!

[vinylscot]

To both @theelench  and @crn303  

It may be that eBay would be happy with a smaller, leaner, but much more profitable company.

They have not introduced these changes at all well. However, when it boils down to it, it really doesn't matter if we like them or not, they're here to stay.

Unhappy campers can leave if they wish (where to, really?). eBay will have gamed this, and made the decision that they can quite easily do without those who leave. Their reluctance to address any of the many issues this has brought up shows how little they value that part of their clientele. It may or may not work out for them. It's too soon to tell.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

the problem with that is that i want to purchase my postage from the post office, why should i have to purchase through e bay?

[vinylscot]

To eBay, that doesn't matter. You're expendable to them.

[superchallenge]

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@crn303 wrote:

All sellers whether GENUINE (your favourite word) private or business are showing a definite drop in sales this past few weeks.
We are all on the sinking ship together.

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They are?

My sales are up 29.6% over the previous 31 days.

[aymanalvi]

You must be selling Loo Rolls, else can’t see any thing selling. The Ebay ship is sinking slowly but surely.

[superchallenge]

No, I sell video games and collectables.

I guess your view must not be the only view or something. I don't know.

[crafty_cat_lover]

I haven't noticed a drop in sales either.

Plus I do wish some of the posters on here would stop assuming that everyone agrees with them. I don't!

[aymanalvi]

Seller do not see Buyer Protection. A buyer said to a seller can you sell your item for £50 , seller says yes I will lower the price to £50. Buyer went to buy the item and saw BP £5 which made it £55.

seller has no clue about BP on his item.

Ebay are CONing buyers

[parsley2003]

No it's worse than V has many couriers and they clearly show the BPF separately 

[crafted_by_jeffrey_driver]

I just don't understand eBay's model. It feels like they have chosen to stifle sellers from growing on here. For all its faults, Amazon allow and encourages growth.

[wintersdawn1]

Ebay = greed, understand this and view their model through this lens and everything fits into place and makes perfect sense.

[hummingbird-curios]

Just looked at an item listed with simple delivery - £2.94 standard tracked, delivery Wed 23rd to Thurs 24th

or Express tracked £3.44, delivery Fri 25th so pay more for a later delivery! What planet are eBay on? They're not only screwing sellers but ripping off buyers too.

I'll be buying elsewhere in future, certainly not on eBay.

[dartmoorpaul007]

I have taken my listing down a few days ago and not buying any more, just like you.

[lucy_farmer]

'£2.94 standard tracked, delivery Wed 23rd to Thurs 24th

or Express tracked £3.44, delivery Fri 25th '

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I wonder if the 'standard' was Evri, and the 'express' was RM?

(unfortunately no way for the buyer to tell ☹️, which is a bad thing if the buyer doesn't want their parcel left in the street or chucked in a wheelie bin....)

If so, it's possibly part of ebay's drive to get people to use Evri not RM.

( this isn't a conspiracy theory on my part ; we've already seen the odd and unneccessary increase in postage price when Evri are dropped by the seller. *And* the transcript of a converation with evri, where the operator openly says ebay are pushing for Evri....)

[moretonryse]

Why would they push for Evri, they are already recognised as the worst performing delivery service in the country. I've been in business for 40+ years prior to retirement and if I modelled a business on Ebay, I would have gone bust in no time.

The most precious asset to any business is their customer base, lose them and you eventually lose the business.

It doesn't help with the constant bickering by business sellers about private sellers, it's created a war between the them and us to the point where it will ultimately affect them hugely as sellers will stop buying on eBay.

I think it's such a shame but I feel now that eBay have reached the end of their chapter and perhaps it's time to start a new book - Amazon, Ebid , Etsy etc

[lucy_farmer]

'Why would they push for Evri, they are already recognised as the worst performing delivery service in the country'

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Why would they push for Evri? Possibly because the dreadful reputation means Evri would jump at the chance to get an enormous contract with a customer like ebay, for much less money than other delivery services would negotiate for.

So more profit for Ebay.

And the way the listings are set up, the buyer doesn't know their parcel will be delivered by Evil, therefore no red flags for buyers to avoid.

[susapric-68]

Found evri have got better this year, since a major Chinese ebay clone have started to use them they do what they should do. Used to hate them

[susapric-68]

"I modelled a business on Ebay" what business? You're a private seller