Simple Delivery

[colcoo-616]

Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage 

[lucy_farmer]

'Sold a Vinyl yesterday for £180 and Simple delivery only offer £150 protection on the service eBay selected... big warning telling me my item wasn't fully covered...'

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You got a warning!  

That's good; an improvment anyway...

[bat369]

I am going to list all my items as " collection only " and explain in description that postage is included in the item price . If after sale you are unable to collect I can post if you forward address , if you are able to collect will refund the postage . It was okay to exchange address after payment was made for sale without breaching their rules , unless they have changed the rules so buyer can't send seller address after payment has been made ? .

[bat369]

I am going to list all my items as " collection only " and explain in description that postage is included in the item price . If after sale you are unable to collect I can post if you forward address , if you are able to collect will refund the postage . It was okay to exchange address after payment was made for sale without breaching their rules , unless they have changed the rules so buyer can't send seller address after payment has been made ? .
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[rcal-96]

Brilliant.

[nichsm_2913]

Same here. I only use ebay on my mobile phone app.

Why does ebay keep messing with us? They are really trying to ruin all us sellers.

[subminman]

you have to work through the process around the qr code that the buyer gives you when they collect. If you don't read it into the system it doesn't get flagged as collected and you don't get paid for two weeks.

[sml192]

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@waxlrose1 wrote:

Sold a Vinyl yesterday for £180 and Simple delivery only offer £150 protection on the service eBay selected... big warning telling me my item wasn't fully covered but no option to change the service eBay had 'selected' 

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Simple Delivery provides compensation up to £750.

Was it sold on this account?  The only vinyl I can see sold on this account was on 25th June and that wasn't listed with Simple Delivery.

It would be interesting to know exactly what the warning message said and at what point it appeared. 

[rcal-96]

Yes.
Complicates things more.

[goosewell]

Great idea….may try that .

[sallyb0137]

Unfortunately this now does not work - obviously ebay has found out and made it so you can't do this - I used to be able to and now cannot.  It means I can't list anything because I cant do Evri as shop is miles away and most of my items I sell are small amounts  No one is going to pay Royal Mail post plus another 30p for RM to collect from me as we do not have a post office.  I am totally dismayed how e bay are treating long serving members by not providing more services ie Yodel which I can do!  Sadly goodbye Ebay like a lot of people!!

[edwardian-dreams]

You can switch off evri

Buyer will pay 3.38 for a RM small parcel, tracked and collected for free too

which is fine if you sell the kind of things you have on

evri can be dearer than RM too

[*manix*]

Only issue with RM small parcels is that one dimension has to be less than 16cm which can be quite restrictive 

[edwardian-dreams]

True for non clothing 

but anyway,  if eBay “recommends” small parcel when you list something,  you can send it as medium size and they pick up the tab 

Unless they’ve changed their policy as they’re often wont to do without telling anyone 

But medium parcel up to 1kg is very cheap compared to RMs own price 

for 2kg it’s identical 

[pra29]

That assumes that local PO will accept a medium parcel with a small parcel label. Mine won’t!
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[pra29]

But you cannot drop PO for parcels that PO will not accept but Evri will.
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[edwardian-dreams]

EBay labels don’t state the weight and size 

eg plus I believe all post office staff have been told to accept any eBay,parcel ?

[nickjw10]

Thank you for sharing your workaround.. that would work for me when the one I'm currently trying fails or is blocked. I'm completely determined to make it until Christmas (my end point for ebay) without using Stupid Delivery.

Nick

[pra29]

Ebay labels DO state size/postage paid. That how my sub-postmaster refused my package. Told me insufficient postage paid.
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[edwardian-dreams]

Mine don’t, as per my example, so that’s that , no idea further 

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[sml192]

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@pra29 wrote:
Ebay labels DO state size/postage paid. That how my sub-postmaster refused my package. Told me insufficient postage paid.
Sent from my iPhone

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Was the label printed by the Post Office or did you print it yourself?

The labels provided by eBay usually just have 'Marketplace Seller' in the bottom left corner and 'Paid by eBay Simple Delivery' in the bottom right corner with no mention of the size/price.

Those printed at the Post Office from the QR code appear to have a different format, and do state the size/price, which is what is causing the confusion.