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.

[dougbat20]

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@palitoy78 wrote:

This is all part of a scheme and the likes of Royal Mail are in on it aswell. Ebay used to be a fun place where you could relive the past. I remember my first purchase was for a bundle of Star Wars figures way back in 2000 and I was hooked. Now it is just daylight robbery at its finest. 

Withholding our money whilst making interest with it, getting rid of PP system and so on. Ebay is dead.

The one thing that really annoys me is whenever you go on live chat etc the agent always says 'thanks for a being a member for 25 years' how condescending does that sound. I know they share just agents but I ask them not to say it to me anymore because I find it insulting. All the money I have put their way and still they choose to take a dump on people.

This is going to hit resellers really bad IMO, especially those who go to car boots etc and do it to put food on the table as a way on earning a living as a business seller.

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Business sellers still get to receive their funding 1 day after payment has been confirmed by the buyer. It's only private sellers' funding that is changing (basically becoming like Vinted).

Also the new fee for buyers is only when purchasing from a private seller - when purchasing from a business seller there is no buyer fee (however the price will show the full amount regardless).

[k.eleven]

So your best bet to get your fund quicker is to ship using tracked service (tracked 24/48 and special delivery) rather than using non-tracked where you have to rely on having the buyer confirm that they have received it. If people aren't bothered giving feedback to sellers what makes eBay think they will do the same for confirmation? it's so weird how eBay is willing to cause inconviences to private sellers just...because they private sellers. 

[meleksale]

Sellers will end up losing loads of items because buyers won't confirm they recieved it?

[claymarsh_house]

I’ve got sold items that are 3 months old and they still don’t show as delivered. How will eBay track those for releasing payments? It relies on the form of postage somewhat doesn’t it? What if it gets lost in post or isn’t tracked like most 2nd class parcels? Will we never get paid?

[sml192]

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@claymarsh_house wrote:

I’ve got sold items that are 3 months old and they still don’t show as delivered. How will eBay track those for releasing payments? It relies on the form of postage somewhat doesn’t it? What if it gets lost in post or isn’t tracked like most 2nd class parcels? Will we never get paid?

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If the item is sent untracked or if there is no delivery confirmation then payment will be released 14 days after the order date. 

[claymarsh_house]

You won’t from the 4th February, you will have to pay for postage from your pocket as you get paid until after delivery of the item. 

[sml192]

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@claymarsh_house wrote:

You won’t from the 4th February, you will have to pay for postage from your pocket as you get paid until after delivery of the item. 

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Unless you opt to use eBay's new  'Simple delivery' service. 

[sml192]

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@meleksale wrote:

Sellers will end up losing loads of items because buyers won't confirm they recieved it?

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Payment will be released solely based on tracking information (2 days after tracking shows as delivered or 14 days after date of order if there is no delivery confirmation).  Buyers won't be required to confirm receipt. 

[lucy_farmer]

'.....it's so weird how eBay is willing to cause inconviences to private sellers just...because they private sellers. ....'

It's probably partly because ebay are finally trying to target business sellers who are pretending to be private sellers (to take advantage of what *were* lesser/no fees etc) but they have picked a method that hammers *all* private sellers. Genuine as as well as fake ☹️

Proper business sellers and genuine private sellers have been been asking ebay to sift out one from the other for years. But they decided just to force any fake private accounts to find it was more expensive or awkward *not* to become a proper business by hammering all private sellers.

Which leaves genuine private sellers facing the same expense, awkwardness and uncertainty 😞

[kath3735_wxmjn]

have 3 pairs!  I live on a farm and have plenty of bad weather gear.  Must admit i did buy one of my last pairs from here, the original person i was buying from cancelled the sale allegedly because of a fault (which she had already photographed and advised about in the original listing!!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

exactly, i only use RM and was quite happy giving my local sub postmaster the direct money for the postage.  Would not touch EVRI as a buyer or seller.  So RM may cost a little more from the PO but i want that to be my choice.

[millcottage]

As a eBay member since October 2000 I’m offended by the way eBay are treating me.

I have sold probably near on a 800 items since 2003 over the last 21 years.

Never had a negative feedback as a seller, always post within 2 days (95% within a day of selling), unless a buyer requests a delay in posting and only had one item returned where buyer changed their mind. I have refunded and told a buyer to keep an item where they didn’t read description correctly once and formed good relationships with multi repeat buyers (coin collectors).

With my 100% record eBay are now telling me they don’t trust me as a seller and will hold my money from sales for up to 14 days until buyer receives item.

What a way to treat a customer of 24 years eBay!

Im going to have to now reconsider if I want to use a platform that doesn’t trust me as a seller.

I will obviously no longer buy from eBay either. Why should I pay a tax of 4% (plus 75p) to buy something when Amazon has zero buyer fees?

[steven5872]

There may be something in that.  I have been selling off stuff on eBay as a private seller as I collected hundreds of books and other stuff over the last 30 or 40 years - at first, eBay allowed me to sell 10 items, then put it up to a couple of hundred, then 800.  Now they have put my selling limit up to 10,000 items (or getting on for £100 K.  As a private seller!  It's ridiculous, I have never listed anywhere near the 800 limit let alone 10,000.  A good week for me would be selling 7 items, why do I need a selling limit of 10,000?  I think eBay aren't just trying to weed out fake private sellers, I think they are trying to turn it into a business sellers' platform.

[steven5872]

You get paid 14 days after sale anyway.  You are right though, I have had experience of items not being shown as delivered weeks down the line, some with feedback so I know they have been delivered - but it does open the door for dishonest buyers to claim item not received, and I am sure this has happened to me so I send everything tracked now - if it costs too much to post, I don't list it.

[its_mrmcg]

I agree fully.

I think eBay want business sellers over private and that’s the model they are targeting going forwards.

[lucy_farmer]

'I think eBay want business sellers over private...'

Well it *looks* that way, but rather oddly it very probably isn't!

If you read the 'Should I stay or should I go' thread, post no. 79 (I think) is from a very business minded and business-experienced poster who has dug his way through tons of business bullsh** and ebay speak, to work out what is going on in ebay's corporate head.

Upshot of which, is that private sellers who also buy are seen as some of the most valuable of ebay's customers........ 

Yes, I know that sounds completely bonkers, after this Buyer's fee bombshell and Simple delivery ballcocks..😅

[monkeynoonoo]

Try telling Asda or Tesco you won't pay them for up to 14 days after delivering your groceries , they wouldn't stand for it.

[mikbigg-0]

No, this is the new policy for private sellers. All postage needs to be tracked so goodbye cheap postage. And eBay get to hold on to your money for longer, making them more interest. Great. 

[pollydolly5sandra]

I won't be selling on eBay anymore 

[make-my-day-357]

Found your post very interesting and agree with almost everything you have said. But what about someone like me whom is a genuine PRIVATE SELLER. I have been selling on here for about 13 years now. I probably but more than I sell. As I stated in a previous post I have very large collection of 4K Blu-Rays and indeed well looked after LP albums. So I have to constanly shift stuff in kind of short burts just to make space and give me the funds to carry on buying. Obviously, overall I am making a loss doing this because a vast majority of Blu-Rays and LPs will only sell for less than I paid and that is a fact . . . . BUT . . . . .

Now and then there will be a Blu-Ray or indeed LP that has become highly sought after for whatever reason and so I sell it and actually makes a profit on that item BUT overall I am still down on my Income compared to Outlay. Remember also that all the items I buy (vast majority being new) I have paid 20% VAT on and sometimes import duty.

So what I am saying is surely I can not be classed as a business seller coz I made a "profit" on 2 or 3 items ???