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.

[steven5872]

Compared to the number of sellers on eBay, I fear the number of replies on this thread is pretty insignificant - although I am sure there are a lot of dissatisfied private sellers who have not thought to come here.  I decided to take down the vast majority of my items but leave a few up to see what would happen.  I see that my items now all have the bogus "buyer protection fee" added to the cost - a totally unnecessary charge given that it is the sellers who have to pay up if anything goes wrong.  I know that there are some dishonest sellers who just disappear but no-one is doing that for the £5 to £20 I normally sell stuff for.  And yet all private sellers are tarred with the same brush of being unreliable, slow to post, and potentially dishonest.  I have sold one item since 4th February - I have no idea if the buyer had to pay the bogus BPF and I'm not going to bother them to ask.  As it happens, I got positive feedback from them on the day of delivery and got my money two days later so that worked as it should under the new rules, but I still think I should have got my money straight away.  One last point for now:  I have received a notification from eBay about simple delivery.  I don't know if that only applies to new listings or whether you can opt out, and I am not going to be making any to find out.  I still have about 40 items up for sale but I will be taking them down in the next few weeks, it would be nice to know if so called simple delivery is being applied to them.

[sunshinedior67]

You can opt out. If you offer free delivery it's then your choice what
service you use to post.
eBay say it will be manitory but state you can opt out, so that's not
mandatory is it!
Picking up on your point about private sellers risks. It's actually
buisness sellers who have below standard selling performance, neg feedback
& bend every rule. I buy as well as sellers & like most have had some
shocking buying experiences from buisness sellers. Not just the goods they
sell either. The latest was a seller who manipulated the removal of neg
feedback I'd left by applying a partial refund claiming I'd returned item
missing parts. The item hadn't been returned & I hadn't even been sent a
label. I contacted eBay who refunded me & see it hadn't been returned & the
sellers message telling me to keep item which was sent after they claimed
it was returned. eBay said they couldn't reinstate my feedback so as I
buyer don't trust feedback reviews as the seller can use the new feedback
removal tool. I'm sure this goes against the purpose of feedback. Just 1 if
many examples of scummy moves from buisness sellers

[nitrohopup]

Summed it up perfectly for me.

my understanding is simple delivery will become mandatory as well.

the moment I am dictated to on courier choice is when all listings come down. 

The post office is a 2 min walk for me, evri is a car ride 

[sunshinedior67]

If you offer free shipping they can't force you to use simple delivery.
They say it's mandatory but in the same sentence say you can opt out, so
they clearly don't know the meaning of mandatory.
Offer free post & increase item price. Just stipulate what service &
carrier your using in the delivery section of the listing or create a new
policy ♥️

[steven5872]

I absolutely agree with you about business sellers, especially the ones with huge feedback scores who can afford to have the occasional negative feedback as their percentage still looks good.  I have mostly been selling my old books on eBay and have become familiar with large-scale booksellers who attract a lot of negative feedback for the condition of their books but shrug it off.  As a small scale private seller I have to avoid negative feedback like the plague so, unlike some large sellers, I under-play the condition of my books, note every mark, tear and scribble in the description and include photographs of the actual books on sale (no stock photographs).  What large business seller takes such care? 

[thesmi42]

Offering free shipping may not be the best option as the 4% BPF is applied to the item price, not on postage. Although I haven't tried it yet, my understanding is that you can opt out of Simple Delivery when you’re creating the listing, presumably by selecting your own choice of delivery in the 'old' way.

Perhaps others who have opted out of SD can confirm that that is the case.

[andha-21]

For the moment you can opt out of SD but the CEO is on record saying they want to make it mandatory for private sellers before the end of Q1 2025, so a matter of weeks.

They still haven't said anything to suggest that they've changed their mind.

[sunshinedior67]

Exactly. You're the type of seller we all want to deal with. I like treat
my buyers as I wish to be treated. My 100% feedback & comments reflect
this. I can have about 10 sales per day but even if I had 200 I'd treat
every buyer the same way.

Reputation is everything & if a buyer trusts you they'll return. I always
check reviews before buying. The price isn't the absolute decider of my
purchase but the way sellers work. Most private sellers sell with care and
should be honoured with the same privileges as buisness sellers. Buisness
sellers with poor performance should have privileges removed.

EBay needs to rethink their buisness practices because their losing
sellers. If I stop selling they lose 10 buyers, daily.

Most buyers come to eBay to grab a deal. If the sellers offering deals
aren't there they'll stop using. Buisness sellers don't like private
sellers because we can undercut their prices but what they need to
understand is when we've all gone they'll be left undercutting eachother
until they have no viable business on eBay 😀

[ett1954]

"Buisness sellers don't like private
sellers because we can undercut their prices "

Any sensible business seller has no issues with a genuine private seller; it is those business sellers registered as private sellers to operate on the site illegally that business sellers object to.

[haynesexplains]

They will I’m sure ….

[kath3735_wxmjn]

you have to love the irony though!  Where is Papso when you need him/her!!!

[jow1995]

May i ask where all your new stock comes from?   From an outsiders view it hardly looks like your selling unwanted items

[podlingsmum2007]

My first sale since the change has been delivered today and now the funds are available in balance on the 19th. Why is it 2 days wait after delivery of a tracked item. But 1 day wait on an item delivered to GSP and 1 day wait on a collected item with code. And from end of month it will be 1 day wait after positive feedback received if under £10. So why the 2 days?

As we know second class is covered up to £20 with Royal Mail, so why won't the feedback work to release the funds on an item £10.01 to £20.00? 

[streetfighter-customs]

because ebay are trying to be something they are not and never will be

it will be fulfilment by ebay next 

where you have to sent your items to a ebay warehouse

just trying their hardest to be a carbon copy of amazon 

but even amazon get it wrong sometimes

[objects-of-intrigue]

Payment 2 days after delivery would be fine if ebay could even fulfil that.

Because that's not working either. I have two international sales currently completed (ie tracked delivery confirmtion on the ebay platform) from 5 and 6 days ago. Funds still not released to me.

These are not cheap items either.  How this is possible is beyond my comprehension. They are claiming this is a technical error. Anyone else not getting paid even though delivery has been confirmed?

I guess I should read the policy change. It says funds will TYPICALLY be released 2 days after delivery confirmed. This is frankly not good enough.

[andha-21]

Across the threads there are hundreds.

[streetfighter-customs]

somehow i dont think ebay took overseas sales into the equasion 

they think that the small time seller isnt capableof overseas shipments

just wondering if they are going to only allow overseas for buiness stores

and cut out the small people 

[streetfighter-customs]

i bet 

ive had quite a few this week since ebay uk were taking a back seat

personally i would list them in other countries 

ie:

ebay.com         USA

ebay.com.au   AUSTRALIA

ebay.ca             CANADA

ebay.fr                FRANCE

ebay.it                ITALY

ebay.es              SPAIN

ebay.ie               IRELAND

ebay.gr               GREECE

ebay.sw              SWEDEN

ebay.de            GERMANY

("but to ship to germanyyou have to have certificates of what type of packaging you use

this way i think you may be bypassing the ebay uk rules

ie: every ebay has its own rules

on ebay.com you can sell digital downloads but you cannot on ebay.co.uk

ebay.co.uk will soon get the message when you are paying your ebasy fees to another countries ebay site

[andha-21]

I'm not sure if the warning they gave in another thread covers this but they stuck a big banner basically saying "any attempt to bypass eBay UK policies could result in punishment".

Just saying in case you missed that and off memory that was an official eBay account, not the mod types that work for the host site. So even though the common consensus appears to be that they don't pay attention here, it appears that they do, at least sometimes.

[streetfighter-customs]

so how does that work if you sign up for a third party advertizing company like webinterpret?

because they advertise globally?