eBay gone to pot?

The_Arbiter

The_Arbiter

The_Arbiter

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There was quite a bit of noise about ebay charging buyers to buy, and now unfortunately ebay has forced Simple Delivery on people. So just seeing if anyone has found this to be a complete nuisance, and another step into ****************? I imagine many moved on years ago, but what's the general consensus?

I listed some items recently and have had to contact customer services 4 times for 3 items, all low value. The app is not giving notifications, one of my buyers had this issue. Ebay hides the address of your buyer sometimes, so you can't post manually. When a label is generated, you can't then arrange a collection via Royal Mail whilst still having them bring the label. Requests for RM to collect from a safe place don't appear to work. The 2D barcodes you are given to produce a label, mostly only appear to work at Royal Mail depots which nationally are only open 8-10am Mon-Fri, Sat 8-12. It feels far too difficult to sell low value items irregularly, or maybe that's point, they only want marketplace sellers.
 
Seems like there's a definite increase in the dislike of changes of ebay now. I did receive an email about they're introducing another postage system, akin to go to corner shop and get label. Again it's a no from me.

All I want is the postman to collect from safeplace, bring the label, and done. Anything less is a lesser service than before. Yes you can do this in theory, but dysfunctional system says no.
 
Space Monkey said:
Recently sold an item through the Simple Delivery system, the item was delayed in the mail, for some reason I was looking on the contact buyer screen and it popped up with a message, your buyer has made contact about the delivery of this item, as it's on Simple Delivery we'll deal with them directly.

eBay took all the heat for it, which was nice :D
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I can't work out if that's an automated almost random message. Once was instantly after I messaged the buyer updating him I'd dispatch on Monday, he paid on Sunday, asked for a Buy It Now which I gave, and he said he was really happy. I also received decent unprompted feedback. Seems unhelpful to me.
 
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