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.

[buffster1963]

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@make-my-day-357 wrote:

So private sellers have to now wait to get paid after delvery is 

Also, I heard that you have to buy your postage from eBay only - is that right ? I won't be allowed to give my local post office the business?

I am startiting to feel a bit #@&#&@# annoyed !!  😞

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Soon all private sellers will have to use managed/simple delivery. The buyer will choose and pay for the delivery and the seller will need to print the postage label or use the QR code and drop off at wherever the buyer has chosen. 

[vintique*violet]

To be fair they usual dump my parcels In the hedge out front so they probably could deliver a plant 😆.

Oh that made me laugh out loud - I have no hedges but they did throw my plant over the gate? Should have left a shovel out 😉 

[dougbat20]

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@buffster1963 wrote:

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@make-my-day-357 wrote:

So private sellers have to now wait to get paid after delvery is 

Also, I heard that you have to buy your postage from eBay only - is that right ? I won't be allowed to give my local post office the business?

I am startiting to feel a bit #@&#&@# annoyed !!  😞

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Soon all private sellers will have to use managed/simple delivery. The buyer will choose and pay for the delivery and the seller will need to print the postage label or use the QR code and drop off at wherever the buyer has chosen. 

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That ain't happening, at least on my end.

The local Yodel shopkeeper is a right *bleep* who won't accept parcels that are within the size and weight bands for Yodel, and Yodel itself is a pathetic company.

UPS is so far out of the way that it makes more sense to pay for a collection and then swallow the collection fee.

Does this mean I will have to cancel orders whenever a buyer chooses UPS or Yodel? As I sure as heck am not using either of those options.

Edit... why censor that word ! M O R O N is not a swear word

[vintique*violet]

I have never used Evri when selling only and always RM for many reasons- I have no choice when purchasing... 

However, due to all these changes, purchases on eBay are well and truly left in the past... of  2024! 

[make-my-day-357]

I am not really understanding - You mean buyers are going to dictate how I send the item?
I don't use anyone except Royal Mail. I can see me having to give up on eBay !

[sml192]

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@myriad*seller wrote:

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@vanilla_vixen wrote:

"Pay me when I despatch the item, fair enough. Pay me when delivered when the delivered part is out of my hands, nope, aint happening."

Exactly this. Being paid when the courier collects the item makes far more sense as we've then done our job as sellers.

I'll be busy listing things this month but come February everything is being removed until I see how this plays out. I knew there was a catch to the removal of seller fees! 

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That's not even how it works now! Dispatching the item isn't all you are required to do, you are required to ensure it is actually delivered, and refund the buyer if it isn't! 

If you dispatch an item and the courier loses it in transit it is up to YOU the seller to refund the buyer. That has always been the sellers responsibility to refund for lost items. 

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However, if the seller uses eBay's new 'Simple delivery' service then their responsibility regarding the actual delivery does end once the item is despatched.  Sellers using 'Simple delivery' will, in theory, be fully protected against loss or damage in transit, as well as late deliveries and negative feedback relating to deliveries, once the item has been scanned into the system by the carrier.  

[buffster1963]

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@make-my-day-357 wrote:
I am not really understanding - You mean buyers are going to dictate how I send the item?
I don't use anyone except Royal Mail. I can see me having to give up on eBay !

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Yes, thats exactly what is going to happen. 

[sml192]

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@wilth3505_gtnhsdglsn wrote:

There aren't supposed to be any business sellers on Vinted.

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Vinted Pro was launched, for business sellers, in the UK in October of last year. 

[jchajecki]

So that £2 + £2.00 postage will now be £2.83 + £2.00. Standard second class post is not tracked but they do offer delivery confirmation. I believe you can still buy postage from other sources but eBay does automatically push you to buy the label from them. AFAIK you can still add tracking numbers and mark as sent manually. Of you buy the postage from them, then RM failures aside, delivery confirmation gets updated automatically, otherwise I presume the buyer has to update it manually.  In short, eBay have done what they can to discourage and put the seller at greater risk if they buy postage elsewhere.

[podlingsmum2007]

I need to be able to have items collected and use only Royal Mail. I'm disabled and the nearest evri drop off is 2 miles away. I might be able to continue if I can eliminate the services I can't use and still book collection.

[buffster1963]

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@jchajecki wrote:

So that £2 + £2.00 postage will now be £2.83 + £2.00. Standard second class post is not tracked but they do offer delivery confirmation. I believe you can still buy postage from other sources but eBay does automatically push you to buy the label from them. AFAIK you can still add tracking numbers and mark as sent manually. Of you buy the postage from them, then RM failures aside, delivery confirmation gets updated automatically, otherwise I presume the buyer has to update it manually.  In short, eBay have made it difficult and created a situation that puts the seller at greater risk if they buy postage elsewhere.

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You can at the moment but not for much longer. No date has been given yet apart from early this year but all private sellers will have to use managed delivery. 

[jchajecki]

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@buffster1963 wrote:

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@jchajecki wrote:

So that £2 + £2.00 postage will now be £2.83 + £2.00. Standard second class post is not tracked but they do offer delivery confirmation. I believe you can still buy postage from other sources but eBay does automatically push you to buy the label from them. AFAIK you can still add tracking numbers and mark as sent manually. Of you buy the postage from them, then RM failures aside, delivery confirmation gets updated automatically, otherwise I presume the buyer has to update it manually.  In short, eBay have made it difficult and created a situation that puts the seller at greater risk if they buy postage elsewhere.

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You can at the moment but not for much longer. No date has been given yet apart from early this year but all private sellers will have to use managed delivery. 

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Wow! Didn't know that. 😞

[make-my-day-357]

Surely that can't be correct - At moment (and always have) listed an item and specified the postage (usually at a loss)
then I usually send it RM 48 Tracked via RM collection because I am disabled.

You mean that I will not be able to do this come February ??

[jchajecki]

Is there no option to select RM collection when you buy postage via eBay?

If not, then wouldn't that discriminate against disabled sellers?

[buffster1963]

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@make-my-day-357 wrote:
Surely that can't be correct - At moment (and always have) listed an item and specified the postage (usually at a loss)
then I usually send it RM 48 Tracked via RM collection because I am disabled.

You mean that I will not be able to do this come February ??

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No, the buyer will choose the delivery method and pay for it. I doubt i will sell anymore once it happens. 

[sml192]

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@make-my-day-357 wrote:
Surely that can't be correct - At moment (and always have) listed an item and specified the postage (usually at a loss)
then I usually send it RM 48 Tracked via RM collection because I am disabled.

You mean that I will not be able to do this come February ??

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The CEO has intimated that 'Simple delivery' will become mandatory for private sellers at some point this year but there has been no official announcement or date given as yet.

Collection is available with Royal Mail when using 'Simple delivery' but it's not clear at the moment whether you can opt to just use Royal Mail and not Evri. 

[vintique*violet]

Totally in agreement with your post... plus I have items sold last year ( Nov and December ) still showing as not delivered albeit feedback has been left so clearly they have - so how many weeks am I truly expected to wait for MY funds? I just cannot get on board with leaving my good reputation ( which I have built, not eBay!) and my funds as a seller on an online marketplace in the hands of a delivery status and automation. 

eBay state that small sellers are their biggest buyers - I am one of them, I have purchased more than I sell.  If others feel the way I do, they have made a huge mistake,  as no more do I buy from this untrustworthy platform! They are restricting and dictating the way I handle my account to suit me and my customers and have been a part of  "building" eBay for the past 17yrs with absolutely zero gratitude; so it is only fair that I restrict them! 

I do not think they have understood the caliber of the " platform of people"  who have been committed for years! 

 It is a sad and sorry state of affairs and leaves more than a bad taste. 

[make-my-day-357]

There is at the moment because thats what I have been doing for over a year now.
I am just trying to confirm if this is stopping come Feb.

[23sandlane]

For private sellers it also means an automatic increase in the selling price shown. This actually is simply another way for Ebay to profit - first from the charge they are going to automatically levy for "buyer protection" which will virtually mean most of this will go towards their profits and secondly the interest they will get from holding the funds for 14 days. Typical business double-speak the pretence that this is for everyone's good when, in realty, it is a sneaky way for them to profit.

[grumpyoldposter]

I wonder how many private sellers will suddenly realise that they were in fact business sellers after all and adjust accordingly so as to get the spondoolix on time ?

about time methinks.

now to hide under a rock as the abuse for this comment is likely to be brutal 😏