As a Private Seller and buyer, eBay have finally come up with a system that works for nobody but them and the business's that have thousands of negative feedback's, It's called "Customers, what do they know" We do what the hell we like and how dare you customers complain about it.
My other post was how they have KILLED the private market for sellers & buyers alike with the BPF scam.
Buyers can't request a total if the seller offers discount on multiple winning bids, Sellers can't send an invoice with the discount, because it's been removed deliberately by eBay to maximise the BPF scam pay-out.
I myself won a lot of item the last Friday, from a private seller I've bought from 3 times before, and requested a total before paying for the items with the postage discount. The items I won last Friday I am not able to do this and the seller is unable to process the order like before.
I got in touch with the unhelpful CS, and for the 1st 20 minutes was told it was possible but the seller's setting's were the problem. (I'd already been in touch with the seller, this was not the case) Then all of a sudden they were having technical issues with the system and there is a tech team working on the problem.
I left it at that, informed the seller, and we will wait till resolved.
Then I started reading a lot of these posts, which If I'm honest I never really have, about the changes that have been made. So I got back in touch with CS, the only option was to have a phone call so I agreed. I genuinely was shocked that it was an international call but OK, and I got the same twaddle like the 1st time. This is very unprofessional and dishonest, but CS have a script and have to stick to it, no matter how many times they sat "I totally understand where your coming from".
Yesterday (19th March) I got in touch again with CS, as still nothing has happened, and I asked a simple question "Has the Combined Request Total from Seller been Disabled") This led to the first person after 10 minutes saying "I need to pass you over to someone who deals with this issue" OK can't answer the question.
Next person, same thing, really what the hell is going on!! Third person I got the same script and no answers like the 1st time I contacted them, to which they claimed there are no issues, it must be the seller's setting, if you get them to contact us we can help them sort it out. Then there was a Glitch with the system that effects some accounts and that the combined request hasn't been removed. If it had been removed they would have announced it. Would they? Why? Surely if there is a Glitch in the system, shouldn't us users of the system be informed about it with something like "We are having some issues with the system, that may effect multiple purchases from sellers. We are working on fixing this Glitch" But nothing just these forums of sellers & buyers complaining about something that worked, until eBay wanted to scam more money from private sellers & buyers with this Unnecessary and unwanted BPF.
The reason for the removal of this tool is so obvious, so buyers of multiple items from one seller pays the whole amount, and for the seller, when they eventually get the funds paid to them to issue a partial refund back to the buyer. Inbetween time the eBay BPF SCAM kicks in, they get the 4% + 75p per item first, no discount on that, then they hold the funds until they decide to pay out.
eBay if your reading this, Well done you've united the sellers & buyers against you with this unfair and unwelcome charge, for your own GREED, and you will lose out big time until you change this back before the introduction of you BPF SCAM. Buyers were and are already protected, this is an extra charge on them. Sellers who send with tracking are protected through postal insurance. All you've done is made it impossible for private sellers to sell & buyers to buy.
