Your funds will be available for payout once we receive delivery confirmation

[silverfoxx68]

Hi I've just received this message contacted ebay and is being sent to everyone 

That's me I'm done no more ebay for me bye bye

We are making changes to the way we process payments on eBay. Going forward, we’ll make your funds available for payout within 48 hours after we’ve confirmed delivery of the item. Until then, you’ll see a “hold” on your funds. This process helps keep our marketplace safe.

[millcottage]

For the item I sold last Monday and had royal collect Tuesday it would have been instant payout.

I sent the item via Royal Mail 48hour service and collect from home.

The postman pressed the wrong button on PDA and it showed as delivered before I even handed him the parcel 😆

Tracking now shows as delivered with a picture of my feet at  my doorstep , yet tracking shows parcel on its way to buyers town.

[papso22]

Tracking can't show both as delivered and en route. 

[myriad*seller]

Best hope the buyer doesn't open a case stating that the tracking shows delivery to somewhere other than their home address then...... 

[podlingsmum2007]

The item will be scanned again during the parcels journey and then the tracking should update to correct information.

[millcottage]

Yes it can.

I’m looking at it now 😀

Shows as delivered with a picture of my feet and below it is updating as parcel moves through Royal Mail sorting offices.

[millcottage]

Buyer is aware.

Told them it should be with them Friday or Saturday.

If it was a very high value item then I would be worried. But sale was only £17 so not too concerned.

Unlike when I sold some Gold sovereigns to a bullion dealer in Birmingham aka £1700 worth at the time.

Royal Mail had my special delivery tracking number going to Camden Town in London and showed as delivered with a signature. I sweated it out until my parcel was confirmed as arrived by the bullion dealer.

[doctor-gonzo]

Been selling since 2002 but this will kill my sales as I rely on having the postage cost for the item in my bank so I can post the items.

Also feel that items are shadow banned unless you pay the extra for promotion, that's why people sales are down.

[ile136yz]

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@doctor-gonzo wrote:

Been selling since 2002 but this will kill my sales as I rely on having the postage cost for the item in my bank so I can post the items.

Also feel that items are shadow banned unless you pay the extra for promotion, that's why people sales are down.

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I buy Royal Mail postage from eBay with the funds from the sale.

[mlemon99]

They will potentially make much more than they ever made from sellers when they bring in the new buyer fees this year. Standard seems to be about 20% like Vinted. A lot of people will no doubt stop shopping when they realise they’re paying a markup if they do it from a private seller on ebay. 

[podlingsmum2007]

It is hard enough to make a sale now but if they add 20% on then who's going to buy my items 🤔 EBay will no doubt expect us to reduce our prices but why should I do that. Will they refund this buyer fee in the event of a return? I doubt I will be buying when this takes effect. 

[sml192]

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@mlemon99 wrote:

They will potentially make much more than they ever made from sellers when they bring in the new buyer fees this year. Standard seems to be about 20% like Vinted. 

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Where are you getting that figure from? 

[reuserecycleresell]

This new payment thing is ridiculous! If your item isn't tracked you'll have to wait 14 days!!!! not only that but they are adding fees for buyers similar to vinted. Ebay going to lose loads of custom. Fees for buyers + higher postage cost for buyers = lower sales. lower sales = seller leave eBay. EBay HATE sellers,  always stick up for the buyers but now buyers are going to deal with eBays *bleep*py policies with the new fees. 

[pokemoncardssanctuary]

But what about sending small parcel or letter just with 1st or 2nd stamp ( no tracking). How will ebay know items was delivered.

[dangr49]

It’s cheaper to send online Royal Mail tracked 48 is £2.70 so if you select £3.39 on eBay small parcel you actually make over a £1 compared to what eBay states 

[tressygirl]

With no tracking they won't  , so those payouts would be subject to a 14 day hold, eBay believe this to be a reasonable time given, for a buyer to open a case if necessary,  for item not received.

@pokemoncardssanctuary 

[dangr49]

I agree this is a grey area! It’s looks like you will have to send out everything tracked and pay top dollar your don’t have a choice unless Royal Mail adapts second class system to some minor tracked method, but why would they 

[pokemoncardssanctuary]

I understand that's one of the opinions but .

For example like me and 1000s of others on Ebay selling for example collectebles like cards , pokemon cards , sports cards etc . Lots of cards are only worth like £0.99 so everyone doing postage at £0.85 second class to make it cheap so total is only under £2. 

Nobody is ever going to pay £3.39 for tracked postage if buying a card for £0.99. 

They can literally just go to game shop and buy like 5 to 10 single cards for same price.

Of course this change will differently affects sellers on ebay depends what they sell and the price range of the items. If they selling something for like £20 + £50 over £100 + paying £3.39 for tracked postage is nothing really. 

[dangr49]

If no tracking id provided you will have to wait 14 days for your money! So basically you have little choice but to send everything tracked no matter how low the item value is! Otherwise you will not see your money for weeks 

[reidscott1]

It feels like this is going to become quite a task to keep a handle on what's been posted, what's been delivered and what monies have cleared with ebay (or haven't) and when.

A quick glance through 2 pages of recent(ish) sale shows that from 84 sales (not all from the last 14 days), 26 still show as 'dispatched', with the rest as 'delivered'. However, from those 26 'dispatched' I have 7 buyers who have left positive feedback, so they clearly have received their items - but the money won't clear until 2 weeks after I posted it, even though I know they've got it?

Admittedly, a few of those 'dispatched' might actually still be en route and 1 has arrived at the Global Shipping Centre (so I guess has arrived? Although maybe not for payment purposes??) but I don't know that - and neither do ebay.

I buy all my labels from Royal Mail through ebay (not all are tracked - but all are created with a QR code that Royal Mail should use at every step) and all are scanned in when I post them, it's at the receiver's end that the postie isn't always doing their job.

I'm all for treating the buyer well but this all feels a little like the wrong way of going about it.

[reidscott1]

If labels are bought from Royal Mail through ebay, even non-tracked have the QR code that is standard on every label, so I guess that counts as tracking in ebay world? That is currently how items show as 'delivered' even when tracking hasn't been paid for.

As I've mentioned above, the actual postman, however, doesn't always scan the QR on delivery, so you'd be correct in that sense, yes.

Or have I got that wrong? I certainly can't afford to add tracking to CDs where I'm making less than a £ after postage.