Simple Selling, Huge Nightmare?

When I sell am item, I currently book it in for Royal Mail collection the next day, and send it via a Tracked 24 hour service. 

 

Will "Simple Selling" stop me doing that? Will it stop me selecting the postage option I prefer, and also stop me from adding in the costs of packaging materials to the postage fee? 

 

TBH I just can't understand why Ebay insists on making all these changes. If a business model works, why not just leave it be? Ebay has surely made billions for its owners. 

 

 

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Simple Selling, Huge Nightmare?

I seriously thought about stopping selling.

However, for me, selling on Ebay is:

An activity I mainly enjoy;

A way of downsizing a large collection of costume jewellery before I go into a care home or die - at least one of those is inevitable;

A small additional income to boost my pension and pay for 'little extras'.

 

So, I am going to carry on.

Sales are slow, but that is not an issue.

I have to wait for payment - not so different than before as I always got paid weekly, normally after I had posted my items.

I will have to use Simple Delivery but fortunately I have an old printer from my pre-retirement days when it was a necessity and an old and inexpensive phone if I need to use the QR code.  Many of my items are under £10 and under 100g so don't even qualify for SD.

 

Every seller will have to look at their own motivation.  If Ebay is your 'hobby' then you can choose to adapt to the changes and even buy a cheap printer.  Most hobbies involve some expenditure.

Or, you can stop selling on Ebay.

Nobody has to use the site.

 

 

 

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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Simple Selling, Huge Nightmare?

Yes they are and all to hold onto our funds longer I have had a knightmare trying to get my funds released as I sent it next day delivery by Royal mail as no option to change postage item delivered next day and proof of delivery received 6 phone calls to ebay and 7 days after delivery still no released funds even with positive feedback confirming next day delivery and confirmed tracking delivery notification. NEVER AGAIN  will I sell on Ebay 

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