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.

[justinjupiler]

I have several magazines listed which typically sell for £1 and have always charged £1.75 for Royal Mail large letter, envelope etc. Now eBay is forcing me to charge buyers £2.87 to receive a £1 magazine and there's nothing I can do about it. 

What's simple about that?

[uk2015_perm]

Hi I listed a couple of items yesterday and the options for all postage
were there again . Does this mean they have actually listened to the
sellers about stupid simple delivery ?

[books1ecb]

A warning - EBAY seem to be retrospectively changin listings to SD
without telling us. I had a box set of books priced for Seller Pays
Medium Parcel

They changed it to SD Small parcel

[robertnew16]

What is simple about that, is that ebay spends about £1.60 on the postage
and the rest is profit for ebay, but a lot of buyers will think its going
to you!

[robertnew16]

Yes, I have had that, if you make any changes to your listing, or even open
it using the phone app, a quick message will pop up about changes to postal
options and, hey presto, its on simple delivery

[books1ecb]

There are ways to avoid stupid delivery as some listing categories for
low value items are not infected by SD

Magazines are - but if they are listed as BOOKS, LARGE LETTER, and cost
£20 or less you get back the option of selecting PACKLINK

There are other categories that this applies to as well, such as stamps,
postcards as similar small thin items.

It would be helpful if there was a Reddit post, or similar listing all
current EBAY categories that are not SD infected

[drew77drew-0]

Last week I understand the programmers reversed the simple delivery and custom postage option buttons and then realised their mistake and corrected it.

[raw-bike-bits]

Not bothered to sell anything for some time now.   Is Simply Delivery still *bleep* ?

[ratecheap_comics]

Absolute *bleep* take, I send low value £4-£5 comics and got pay extortionate prices for unnecessary services that aren’t worth it. I’ve had to manually change everything to custom and had an email saying everything will be changed to simply *bleep* delivery on 26/12/25. Absolutely fuming.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Why not change to be a business seller? At least for the listings that are 20 available copies of the same New comic? 

that being said, I don’t collect comics, maybe there’s a reason a collector would get 20 copies of a comic for their personal collection.

[ratecheap_comics]

Because a business account is basically paying the company to do what your already doing! Bizarre statement, I buy collections, keep what I want and flog the rest to buy more collections. That’s how collectors work.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Like I said, I don't know how comic collectors work - just how a listing with 20 new comics might look - hence the suggestion.

[dougbat20]

Same, I've just received an email saying that listings will be automatically changed to Simple Delivery. That's just *bleep* if you ask me.

I've been trying to make sure I don't have Simple Delivery! I don't want to use it.

Simple - more like *bleep* Delivery methinks

[ratecheap_comics]

It is an absolute shower of a service for low value items. I’ll try to mass edit them back after, failing that it looks like I’ll be car booting next year. 

[books1ecb]

[It doesn't work for low value items] ... and high value items too -
just sold a nice old book from our collection priced £450. Stupid
Delivery decided to send it Tracked 48 i.e. second class post. I instead
sent it Royal Mail Special Delivery purchased from their online Click &
Drop site. Even though EBAY claim to offer full value protection that is
not the issue. What matters is how the items are handled during transit
- Special Delivery is a premium guaranteed fast service, with minimal
handling - second class post is not. I would have bought the postage via
EBAY's Packlink service, that is not allowed now.

SD has no consideration for a key concept Quality Customer Service

[president_slush]

Simple delivery might have had a chance of working if the Royal Mail had kept their old pricing method - by weight alone.  When you've also got to start measuring-up then that's when things get complicated.  The worst thing about SD is that the ebay robot thinks it knows everything about the item you are trying to list, or your personal circumstances in being able to drop-off the package within a limited time allowance / wait around all day for a courier pick-up; (it doesn't).

It appears that SD will now be compulsory in the New Year.

[robertnew16]

What do you mean compulsory in the new year? It's compulsory now, I have
not been able to list an item for a couple of weeks using any other than
simple delivery!

I can't put the actual word in, ebay censors part so the bit in brackets is
an anagram, clue is change the first and last letters. The term is call
en(this)tification its a term for making a website worse just for the sake
of it!

[drew77drew-0]

For items under £20 in certain categories you don't have to use simple delivery. (at the moment), IO hope this will remain the case.

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[tressygirl]

@It doesn't work for low value items ... and high value items too -
just sold a nice old book from our collection priced £450. Stupid
Delivery decided to send it Tracked 48 i.e. second class post.

Remember that items sent under Simple Delivery T & C's , are insured for loss or damage for £750.

[books1ecb]

Please read my post again - The claim that SD offers #750 cover is not
the issue. SD uses 2nd class post - valuable items need fast and minimal
handling which is why they need to be sent by Royal Mail Special
Delivery, or a credible courier (not EVRI). SD is not fit for purpose.
The goods belong to the seller and then the buyer NOT EBAY - it is
wholly unjustified that you refuse to allow us to use the shipping
method of our choice. PACKLINK offered choice SD does not.