Simple delivery is awful

[jezzagold]

I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did they have to stop the seller from deciding how to post items? Put me right off bothering to use Ebay.

[vintage_shoes]

Large letter up to 250g in the UK costs £1.80. Ebay charges £2.73 for simple delivery. Over 50% more and no better service. Makes a £2 item look really expensive

[pegr-834437]

Is the compensation on both of those services the same? 

Really though eBay don't want to be a marketplace for selling items at £2, they will never come out and say it but small value items will be a casualty of simple delivery but for eBay they wont mind, especially from private sellers where they don't actually get seller fee's. 

[clydeandrascal]

I couldn't agree more.  Simple delivery is simply inadequate.  It does not allow for customer variants, it does not facilitate combined postage, it does not allow signature on arrival, it does not allow for 2kg-5kg parcels; it does not permit medium parcels of over 61cm & it does not offer compensation for delivery to the wrong address.  It was (ill) conceived & just an additional way for eBay to make money from the carriers concerned, with whom it has contracts.

[jonboselr]

Quite so. 

I preferred Royal Mail Click and Collect. 

Simple Delivery might be simple for ebay but I have had to drive to the evri shop 3 times already this week. 

I don't think I can be bothered to sell much more. 

That and the NI threshold has put me right off.