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NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY

AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.

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Simple delivery is awful

I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...

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Changes to Buyer Protection fee. How does this help?

How on earth can this be good news and help me sell things? Yes a reduced flat fee - but look at the total cost in fees when all are added up? Without the ability to add multiple items into the basket, this is getting ridiculous now.

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Resolved! how do you list anything bigger than 61cm?

Ebay is now forcing me into SD with no custom delivery option The largest postage offered under SD is 61cm There seems to be no way to list anything over 61cm and get the correct postage, even if you declare the dimensions in the listing height, widt...

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Simple delivery

I’ve sold a few items and used simple delivery with Royal Mail. All my parcels are small and under 2kg and the same postage price is charged. Today, I noticed one of my parcels is going via tracked 24 and the other tracked 48, yet the same postage ha...

Ebay simple delivery opt out

So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......

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Resolved! Updates to Buyer Protection Fee as of 17 July - give with one hand and take back with another!

I have just read eBay's recent email excitedly letting us all know they have reduced the flat fee of 75p to a more palatable 10p per item. BUT...they have made changes to the percentage added on top of that. They used to add 4% for anything with a va...

Early Payout?

This morning, Friday 18 July, a payout was made to my bank account. I also received a payout on Tuesday this week. Has eBay changed the payout dates? Have I missed an announcement?

Tracked 48 item not received by buyer one month after being sent - best way of refund being issued?

I posted a Tracked 48 item to a buyer on June 14 and the tracking still shows "Accepted at Parcelshop" and that's it. The buyer's been unbelievably patient and has been the one insisting that we hold on just in case it shows up. I think it's safe to ...

postage for private sellers

Just had a situation, whereby i chose wrong postage service for size of package.Under old system, i could simply rectify my mistake , by cancelling and changing postage courier.Try doing that with the new, wonderful "simplified " system, and see how ...

Resolved! Simple Delivery

Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage

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