02-05-2025 8:01 AM
Help! NOTE to The Gods of EBay .Your New 15th/
4/25 : New enforced system of courier
-'your way Only' ! 1) I Don't have a printer 2) l've been with you for nearly 10 years without one (.& + see positives reviews !) 3)
The Only & post office is open
ONE day a week in village hall
4) Ive always used village hall service -successfully quoting 5 days to despatch+ 5 with my
'chosen courier' in past! due rural & delays .5) your system forces 1-3 days in drop down options. 6) 8 years previously using village PO ,they have no printer either ! No issues Untill now! 7) otherwise next PO is miles away (bicycle my transport)8) The nearest printer is 4.7 away when library is open ! 9) it’s Your idea to relist (automatic) my items with your Simple system, from my choice & now I am at a loss how to fulfill orders 10) & please explain how QR helps me ? 11 ) how do you propose i continue & supply people now? 11) Also by just clicking on QR/label it shows Despatched !
Solved! Go to Solution.
03-05-2025 10:56 PM - edited 03-05-2025 11:05 PM
Imbecilic Ai there is no such thing
You have to laugh don’t you
because Ai is a robot which has to be controlled by humans sometimes imbecilic one’s 😐🙄🤣🤣🤣
I too will not use eBay if in any way they clamp down on my freedom , they haven’t done thus far
04-05-2025 7:09 AM
well i do not think it is okay for small parcels. Most of my stuff was small parcel which i was happy to take into the post office and pay for myself. I never send tracked unless a larger value item which are rare for me and the certificate of posting tracking number has worked well. Never had a parcel go missing or arrive damaged yet through RM (that is as both a seller and buyer)
04-05-2025 7:12 AM
they changed me to SD last week but i have still managed to get my own postage on. Not sure how long that will last this time, just put a few items back on. I like experimenting now, even for the entertainment value.... Got past the frustration, anger, annoyance and just accepting what is and am now on another site although i am having a problem with trying to list with photographs but my intelligence younger relative is going to sort it out for me.. I hate technology!
07-05-2025 6:38 PM
Looks like ebay have made simple delivery mandatory now. Not good. I have clicked on the get postage label for my current item, my preferred courier Yodel cost now comes up at £6.19 whatever the parcel weight and size. Royal mail cost is 3.44, evri 2.94; i could have posted this large letter for 1.77 a few months ago but now need to guarantee delivery confirmation so tracking required. What is going on at ebay?
07-05-2025 7:49 PM
07-05-2025 9:07 PM
I wonder what ebays criteria is that makes evri and royal mail their preferred couriers. I like others but simple delivery has made them prohibitively expensive
07-05-2025 9:09 PM
07-05-2025 9:38 PM
To the OP.
I'm sorry but they just don't give a sh-1-t about you or the rest of us.
Just had a message today where they're trying to make out that they're listening to us by offering some new "simple delivery" pricing for smaller packages (or something)...?
It's got to a point where i'm getting beyond understanding what the hell is going on here anymore - it was so simple up until some complete clown at ebay decided to stick their massive oar in & basically botch everything up for just about everybody on here.
Ebay - "IF" you were really listening you'd back down & put everything back the way it was.
I'd love to see your sales figures since Feb 4th.
07-05-2025 9:40 PM
Spot on with the "it's turning into an unattractive place to sell"...
It's also turned into a very unattractive place to buy.
How can you get things SO badly wrong ebay..?
07-05-2025 10:25 PM - edited 07-05-2025 10:26 PM
@jesso1 wrote:I wonder what ebays criteria is that makes evri and royal mail their preferred couriers. I like others but simple delivery has made them prohibitively expensive
RM because they have the universal coverage
Evri because ebay could make the most profit on reselling them.
Therefore ebay desperately wants the highest proportion of items to go to Evri - whenever both buyer or seller is in coverage. Probably makes ebay between 50p and £1 extra profit per order.
I'm pretty sure RM don't want ebay only putting all the hard geographic jobs to them as their services are priced assuming a mix of easy and hard to get to areas. As such I doubt ebay make any profit when people pick RM now they have had to reduce the rates to 'price march'.
Big supermarkets usually 'price match' the cheaper places like Lidl or Aldi but on ebay their SD rates were so punitive and obscene they are having to 'price match' the highest price carrier. It's like going into Tesco and them price matching Waitrose or M&S because otherwise Tesco were going to charge more - never happens in real life only in ebay's psychotic universe of double speak.