When to cancel current listings

[crn303]

Fun and games when from 7th April, eBay will rewrite existing listings.

Are they capable of separating those less than 100g weight and envelope sized items that will be exempt from the Special Delivery fiasco ??

I don’t intend accepting eBays new rulings ie BPF, Special Delivery, wait for my funds etc.

 Is it best to delete current listings the day before 6th April ?? 

[department28]

Yes, I can't see how they can apply Simple Delivery to existing listings without causing all sorts of problems.

Sellers will have to go combing through every listing to check what has been done, and fiddle around deselecting couriers, and choosing who pays for postage etc, to avoid being caught out by all the defaults that will have been selected for you, 'to make your life easier'...

[millcottage]

I’m simply going to leave my listings as they are and after eBay have done the changes.

if I make a sale (unlikely these days as sales have basically stopped), if the changes to postage don’t fit my requirements (correct for size and weight and courier) then I will cancel the sale giving eBay as reason.

[department28]

I'm sure there will be many sellers who won't be aware that their existing listings will be interfered with, and many certainly won't be up to speed with how Simple Delivery works. Even those of us that have been reading about it are struggling to understand it!

A lot of private sellers have already felt obliged to adjust their prices to allow for the BPF - now there will be new (mostly higher) postage prices to consider - and no way to adjust postage pricing, because eBay now decide the prices...

I think the least they could have done was to leave existing listings alone, and not be so indecently hasty to rush everyone into this.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I was going to leave mine on until the 15th and cancel if they had messed with my posting but have decided it is not worth it so will be gone by the 7th.

[edwardian-dreams]

Thing is eBay has become like politics

a week is a long time 

we have agents and the community team telling us different things  on the same d ay 

ebay doesn’t know *bleep* from elbow still 

it might be ok to sit it out past the 7th 

good luck whatever you decide

[suelel1968]

Mine are mainly free post for which i generally pay £1.55. They should remain as exempt from SD as under £10 and under 100g.... but I am going to change all the free post to large letter £1.55 on Sunday night (Bulk change, 2 mins work), which i think will give the AI a big clue as to what i post them for. and I'm not going to change the price to reflect the fact that i won't be picking up the postage bill and then just sit it out. If i sell, great, if it is SD, I'm not the one paying, if it is RM £1.55, great and if nothing sells ..... I think Ebay will have bigger problems than I will. 

I can always tweak the prices in the future, but Ebay have put us through enough changes for now and trying to change them without a clue what AI will change your postage to is too much. AI guessing how much something weighs is too much!  One step beyond.... Who sang that?

[department28]

😎Madness... very appropriate. 

[clearingmyshelves2025]

All mine finish on Sunday. All 159 of them! I've got 2 with bids so far. If I get a manic run on sales I'm going to have a fine time packing and posting on Monday. Fingers crossed.

And that will be it. I've been on Ebay since 2004, first as a buyer then later mainly as a seller of perhaps 15 years or so. I still remember walking to the post box with my first sale. I was so chuffed! But I don't need dictating of how I should post. 

And Ebay, you've lost me as a buyer too. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.