eBay Scrapping Private Seller Fees

[CoolHands]

I normally do free shipping to keep things simple. I will also now have to just say plus p&p and let ebay sort it out. Pretty crap as some things I sell I wouldn’t send by evri but maybe no control now. When I sell a model for £300 don’t fancy them lobbing it over the fence in the rain

[Clockwork Cupcake]

CoolHands said:

I normally do free shipping to keep things simple. I will also now have to just say plus p&p and let ebay sort it out. Pretty crap as some things I sell I wouldn’t send by evri but maybe no control now. When I sell a model for £300 don’t fancy them lobbing it over the fence in the rain

Well, quite. I honestly don't see the rationale behind this. Already the PacLink option is more attractive than arranging your own postage. Is that not good enough? I would be fine with them making that mandatory as I already use it. But I choose which carrier & price to use. But making it Hobson's Choice? What is the benefit? They say it is convenience but, as I said, it is pissing on our heads and telling us it's rain.

[CorradoTDI]

I had this today too - maybe the final straw... they really must hate private sellers

So how does this work as most of the items I sell are large letter and under 100g and are listed like this...

With simple postage, the cost is £2.70 as it has to be tracked - that's almost double!!

[I-am-the-reverend]

I send everything recorded anyway.

Tracked 48 signed for or Fedex/UPS.

[Kev_Mk3]

Wait, What.

So now as a private buyer I can now only use ebay postage and not royal mail? I list EVERYTHING free postage currently seems I wont be moving on then.

[egomeister]

No you can still use Royal Mail but ebay insert themselves in the middle because its "simple" (and they can make money on the postage)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

egomeister said:

No you can still use Royal Mail but ebay insert themselves in the middle because its "simple" (and they can make money on the postage)

I have no issue with this so long as it does not cost me even a penny more.

[egomeister]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

egomeister said:

No you can still use Royal Mail but ebay insert themselves in the middle because its "simple" (and they can make money on the postage)

I have no issue with this so long as it does not cost me even a penny more.

I suppose so. Selling is free so they have to make their money somehow...

[Clockwork Cupcake]

egomeister said:

I suppose so. Selling is free so they have to make their money somehow...

Only it isn't free because buyers adjust what they are prepared to pay in order to accommodate the buyer's fee. Which has been my point all along.

But, yes, eBay can for sure have their gramme of flesh.

[S6PNJ]

I think you might have missed the parrot!

[egomeister]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Only it isn't free because buyers adjust what they are prepared to pay in order to accommodate the buyer's fee. Which has been my point all along.

But, yes, eBay can for sure have their gramme of flesh.

I know, I only said it as I knew you'd bite

The postage thing winds me up in the same way that the fees do for you (and me to some extent). They make out its all for the benefit of the seller when actually it just allows them to take a slice of the postage pie. I'd prefer that slice of revenue to go RM (or whoever) rather than ebay but now I have no choice.

[alangla]

egomeister said:

I know, I only said it as I knew you'd bite

The postage thing winds me up in the same way that the fees do for you (and me to some extent). They make out its all for the benefit of the seller when actually it just allows them to take a slice of the postage pie. I'd prefer that slice of revenue to go RM (or whoever) rather than ebay but now I have no choice.

It always used to annoy me how eBay took a chunk of your postage costs in fees. If you had a small value item, maybe starting at 99p or something, with a postage cost of, say, £2.60 (because as a buyer you’d expect to be quoted postage at cost), once eBay had carved their charges and VAT out of the sale proceeds you were lucky to have a few pence left. Obviously this has now flipped round to the buyer paying their charges via this new “buyer protection fee” and them claiming a cut of the postage costs as an intermediary, similar to what Vinted appear to do. No doubt over time the Simple Delivery charges will start to diverge from the prices available via the parcel comparison sites as well.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I think everyone would be happier if we just dropped the pretence and eBay just said "this is our cut". Just stop bullstting us.

My biggest issue, and I know I keep saying this, is eBay pissing on us and saying it is rain. And this is not just a saying; it actually happened to me once. No, really.

[KTMsm]

Unfortunately you're assuming the general public have some semblance of intelligence

[CorradoTDI]

Just found you can remove Evri as an option here....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/ship/prf

[KTMsm]

CorradoTDI said:

Just found you can remove Evri as an option here....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/ship/prf

I don't know why you'd want to remove Evri, they're the only ones who will take large parcels and aren't bad compared to Yodel

I tried to send a large parcel (a motorcycle seat) yesterday

As Yodel had a nearer Drop off point that's who I selected. However, when I tried to hand it in they refused saying they only accept small parcels - which needless to say wasn't on the website

I tried live chat the girl took 10 minutes typing out standard responses such as "I'm looking into your parcel" so I gave up with that and tried calling

If you haven't sent a parcel, after fking you about for ages, they cut you off

Canceled the label and sent it via Evri

[egomeister]

But its simple! Why don't you just let the simplicity wash over you and accept whatever the f.. ebay want you to do! Simple!

Personally, I prefer Royal Mail for smaller items, then Evri for larger. I will have to dig into how feasible it is to configure services per item when I next list something

[epom]

Got a parcel back yesterday that I had posted over a month ago. Seller had paid the fees, I got paid, seller never collected it from the Post Office. I assume I can sell again and the seller has no come back ??

[egomeister]

egomeister said:

But its simple! Why don't you just let the simplicity wash over you and accept whatever the f.. ebay want you to do! Simple!

Personally, I prefer Royal Mail for smaller items, then Evri for larger. I will have to dig into how feasible it is to configure services per item when I next list something

Ok, I have just had a look an existing listing and my postage settings. While I appear to be able to exclude Evri in the settings and that only leaves Royal Mail, when I go to the listing I have no visibility of what services will be available to the buyer and the "from" price listed is less than the appropriate RM Tracked 48 service, so I have no idea what they'll be stitching me up with.

What a dumb system.

[KTMsm]

epom said:

Got a parcel back yesterday that I had posted over a month ago. Seller had paid the fees, I got paid, seller never collected it from the Post Office. I assume I can sell again and the seller has no come back ??

I think with eBay rules you're safe after 45 days

Although when I've had similar happen I've re listed it on a different account