@suelel1968 

I think the purpose of the override is to work the other way around. I appreciate it could be used to promote Evri, but really it is there just in case buyers select Evri for an area they don't deliver to. RM deliver everywhere.

So why do they allow sellers to deselect Royal Mail?

"Do you really think Ebay have put enough thought into this to be coming up with an intricate plan to squeeze every last penny out of sellers that way? I mean if they wanted more money they could just have put seller fees up or just stopped the 70 or 80% discounts. Much simpler, much less confusion, software rewriting and little to go wrong. "

Normally I'd say no, but there are multiple elements in Simple Delivery that individually look like traps and taken together it looks like they built this new private seller platform on quicksand. A special gift for us.

I'm far from an eBay cheerleader but there are some incredibly smart/sneaky elements in Simple Delivery and considering how many areas of it have been covered in terms and conditions it looks like their legal department have had a bigger involvement with this side of the rollout & they won't be remotely concerned with what's easier. Complicated and convoluted will be their preferred method of communication as that allows them to trap people that don't read properly.

Alot of people come with the not thought through angles, but that is based off your/our perspectives as sellers/buyers. Sure, we can all see the potential problems.

But if it's designed specifically to create problems, then that has been thought through and it is a very clever trap.

This whole thing is perspective dependent.

I think things are being lost in translation here which is why I keep reposting similar wording.

I think you need to tread very carefully with their new systems, because taken as a whole it looks a near perfect system for guaranteeing that private sellers lose, completely.

Their terms and conditions and caveats allow them to toy with us for sport, if they so desire.