Simple delivery opt out for items under £10. What if I sell someone 2 x £6 items? Auctions?

[chodster]

Apologies if this has been answered. Much as I despise the new SD, it looks like we're stuck with it. 

In some categories, you can opt out of SD if the item is £10 or less & is under 100g. 

Q1: What happens if I sell 2 items at £6 to someone? I read a while back that SD couldn't combine postage, but they were working on it. Also, as the combined invoice has gone over £10, does the opt-out auto-cancel itself? 

Q2: For auction items, how do you set your postage if you're starting the item at under £10 and have no idea if the final price is going to be over or under £10? 

[xyz307xyz]

Someone may have a better answer - but at the moment-
-Different private users experience different results, when listing similar items.
-Different items, e.g. in different categories can produce different results

-ebay are sometimes making changes e.g. new parcel options and prices supposedly either today or yesterday.

In short, I doubt anyone can answer.

Q1 - as far as I know, if they are on SD, it's currently likely you would send them separately. I guess if they are not on SD, they won't combine into mandatory SD automatically.
Q2 - no real idea. I would guess if the auction starts as non mandatory SD, it would finish and progress that way. That would be logical but ebay may have their own view.

I've not had it myself, but people have reported on these boards about ebay changing the amount charged as postage on live SD items - if that's the case - anything could happen. A lot of people have paused their items or reduced to having only a few items, until it's clearer what is going on (and what might change again...)

[chodster]

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated. 

The conclusion is that it's an unpopular idea, badly conceived, badly executed and as clear as mud. 

How unlike ebay........🙄

[akemp1]

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@chodster wrote:

The conclusion is that it's an unpopular idea, badly conceived, badly executed and as clear as mud. 

How unlike ebay........🙄

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To be fair they really are striving for the highest levels of under-achievement this year.

Anyone clued-up at ebay must be horrified at how out of touch their management are.

This week I've sold 4 items on ebay and 2 at the clothing marketplace (that now does other categories) which I signed up to after ebay announced their inferior version of managed delivery would become mandatory. My sales have been roughly 50/50 between sites since I started selling there around a month ago but now I am down to just 2 listings there and still have 171 listed here.

I'll probably move another batch of listings across to that place this weekend. Once SD becomes mandatory for my account then I'm putting a no-sales holiday on ebay while I move the rest of the things that are better suited to that place away from ebay.

I'll then have to go through what remains on ebay making sure I have filled in the size and weight properly as I usually don't bother and just make sure the right postage product is selected but that won't work once they the SD virus infects them.

I really hope that clothing marketplace keeps introducing more categories as I am getting great results (per listing) there and am fedup of ebay.

With the changes this year ebay lost their status as my preferred platform for buying or selling. I actually feel relieved to know I have viable choices elsewhere covering a lot of stuff and I don't need to be a victim of ebay's relentless attacks. I'd imagine the costal villages that were frequently raided by the vikings felt the same way.