they could indeed choose to use Royal Mail Special Delivery -given their primary listings were homemade copies of pirate radio recordings (listings trademarked with a trademark that doesn't seem to exist in the IPO).

All they needed to do was upgrade to Business Seller. Their choice not to.

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@bra-516896 wrote:
Agree ,now Royal Mail has taken away higher coverage on recorded delivery and only offers £20 cover there is an advantage as it’s a standard rate with up to 750 coverage , but you must pack well , had recent first experience of this and eBay covered the damage after Royal Mail had played football with the packet .

So credit where due .



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No, they haven't.

Royal Mail Signed For has been £20 for quite some time now. However, Royal Mail 1st/2nd Signed For (and 1st/2nd Standard) are bad services anyway...:

1) They do not offer full end to end tracking and Standard won't even say delivered if the postie is lazy enough to not scan the barcode at delivery

2) Standard and Signed For are more expensive than their Tracked and Tracked With Signature counterparts!!

Which means there is ZERO reason to go with Signed For 2nd Class when Tracked 48 with Signature exists. Etc etc.

Also... Simple Delivery uses Tracked 48 or Tracked 24, the latter for express services. There is NO OPTION for a signature on delivery. And of course the difference between £75 and up to £750 (so up to £675) is swallowed by eBay if there are any problems (though see above where people have provided proof of delivery, the buyer complains and then eBay tries to take the sellers' money regardless! Even though the seller should be covered under Simple Delivery rules anyway!!!).

So....

• anything that is based off 1st and 2nd Class - AVOID - BAD SERVICES
• Tracked 48 or 24 with Signature - impossible under Simple Delivery, you must use Custom Postage*
• Above the £750 Simple Delivery cut-off, the only service that will cover you is Special Delivery, and one with a higher protection limit than the standard service (the standard service is there to cover anything above Tracked 24/48 but below £750, if you were posting it yourself via Custom Postage)

*and yes there are options to get Custom Postage even as a private seller, if you know what you're doing.

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@jonatjonatjonat wrote:

they could indeed choose to use Royal Mail Special Delivery -given their primary listings were homemade copies of pirate radio recordings (listings trademarked with a trademark that doesn't seem to exist in the IPO).

All they needed to do was upgrade to Business Seller. Their choice not to.

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I am a private seller and do not use Simple Delivery on the vast majority of items sent. It takes a little more effort at the listing stage but is easily doable. Point in hand.

Private sellers cannot sell any bladed articles on eBay - FULL STOP

'....there are over 110,000 knives available for sale on E-Bay right now..'

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Are they from businesses? I can't see how private sellers would get around the Artificial Idiot on this 🤖🤡

Yikes  .... Looks at my pile of bladded items :0 . Maybe trying to push people into business accounts?  Actually thinking GameStop owner will save us taking over eBay surely it can't be any worse 😄 ? And yes there's loads of private sellers selling these things argh!!

I believe that you will find that these are probably from business sellers. I have several times tried to list Leatherman multi-tools, and the listings have been removed.

yep - a few posts on this now. Little ebay can do given its royal mail removing the service for private sellers.

This is essentially aiming to limit the sale of bladed articles to registered businesses, unless you accept the use of the more expensive UPS service (unsure if other age verification services exist outside of ebays postage options). I also accept that what ebay deems a bladed article is, heavy handed.

My local post office is a 30 mile round trip from my home, and Evri collection points are much further away than that.  I booked a Royal Mail collection for today under the Simple Delivery system for an item I've just sold on Ebay, but something seems to have gone wrong and the postie didn't turn up - they are usually 100% reliable up here.   Having no control over what's happening is very unhelpful.

Did you get an email from Royal Mail confirming the collection date? The confirmation email usually arrives as soon as the collection is booked, so it's always worth checking, to reassure yourself the booking has definitely gone through ok.