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It will be exempt from Simple Delivery due to its size, weight or both. You’ll be free to use whatever you want. Just specify the size as over 150cm or the weight over 20kg and it should default.
I've been selling some more normal sized bits lately and the simple delivery actually works fairly well for those.
I've been selling some more normal sized bits lately and the simple delivery actually works fairly well for those
Agreed, it works well selling. Also nice as a buyer that people need to get on with posting to get their money, in the past I had far too many cases of somebody charging £5 for next day delivery and packaging and then waiting a week to drop it a the Evri point in a cereal box all while sitting on the money.
It will be exempt from Simple Delivery due to its size, weight or both. You’ll be free to use whatever you want. Just specify the size as over 150cm or the weight over 20kg and it should default.
Ta. Looks like the website gives you more options for custom postage than in the app.
A new and exotic problem 😀
Simple Delivery. Someone from USA has bid and won.
Was set up as GSP.
Address is Manchester, New Hampshire.
So I can't generate a Royal Mail label.
Shite.
/Ends
I see eBay are noting the cost of the "buyers fee" now, so it's out in the open. Some numpties are still stating "cash on collection" though....
You can still cash on collection, ebay just then invoices the seller for the fees?
I bought some stuff that way recently.
A new and exotic problem 😀
Simple Delivery. Someone from USA has bid and won.
Was set up as GSP.
Address is Manchester, New Hampshire.
So I can't generate a Royal Mail label.
Shite.
/Ends
There is a process in place for if you use a different postal method- like, I had someone ask for an express service and was happy to do it, so I just did it and then requested a refund of the Simple Delivery.
Except, it doesn't work, at all. There's a reddit chat about it, we can't find a single person who's actually got the refund, or any response at all from the automatic process other than the initial receipt. And if message them that also goes into a black hole. I've just done a credit card reclaim for it just to see what'll happen, the lady at the bank said "oh yeah I've had a few of these lately" which is always a good sign. I predict they try and claim it off my balance or just charge it again or something equally shitty.
Oh, I just got some automated feedback. From ebay.
I'm guessing noone's bothering anymore, so they've decided to make the numbers up! What a shit show.
Selling some handlebars, which you may know are generally longer than 61cm these days...
Not able to change them from simple delivery. So, basically, you can't make it work as the biggest allowed is 61 x 61 x 46 (and yes, I have heard of hypotenuse, but I haven't got a box shaped like that).
Only option, after a lot of head scratching, was to opt for Evri only on postage, which allows up to 120cm length. I hope.
Royal mail has an option for tubes "For rolled and cylinder-shaped parcels, the length of the item plus twice the diameter
must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.". It gets charged the same as a medium parcel. But I don't know if you can buy a medium parcel label then send a tube, or if its a separate thing entirely.
Agreed, it works well selling. Also nice as a buyer that people need to get on with posting to get their money, in the past I had far too many cases of somebody charging £5 for next day delivery and packaging and then waiting a week to drop it a the Evri point in a cereal box all while sitting on the money.
I get that it can be like that sometimes. But two days is a joke. If something is on buy it now. And it gets purchased on a tuesday. They are waiting until Friday until its posted. I simply have no option to get it posted on a Wednesday Thursday.
Not a business. Just seel stuff i don't want and other people do. If you need faster service than that then buy it new?
I mean i don't charge for next delivery so i totally get why that would be taking the piss. But it does make it quite hard to sell stuff with this 2 days postage thing.
Yeah, the RM tube option was what I was trying to access. I thought tubes were slightly cheaper than medium box as well, but it's not worth the effort (bars will be lucky to get above 99p!)
Bloody UPS charging me an extra £4.50 for a box apparently being 2cm's too big and all sides. Yeah right.
I specifically amended the box to be in the required measurements but I have to prove it with photos, but they just get trusted!!
Update - I disputed the additional charges, asking why they don't have to prove the box was too big with photos, and they have accepted there could have been a mistake and refunded me the extra £4.50 charge. Woop, Woop.
I know its only £4.50, but its the principal. Thats nearly a pint for me later now!!
Tube and medium parcel are the same thing for Royal Mail.
I've had my first package not arrived (as seller) with simple delivery. Buyer opened a not delivered case but as eBay can see I posted it (and it has other tracking steps as far as the main depot where it seems stuck) they will apparently deal with everything!
I've had my first package not arrived (as seller) with simple delivery. Buyer opened a not delivered case but as eBay can see I posted it (and it has other tracking steps as far as the main depot where it seems stuck) they will apparently deal with everything!
Update - I disputed the additional charges, asking why they don't have to prove the box was too big with photos, and they have accepted there could have been a mistake and refunded me the extra £4.50 charge. Woop, Woop.I know its only £4.50, but its the principal. Thats nearly a pint for me later now!!
ASide but if you ever get this with Evri, simply ignore the invoice, they never follow it up and there's no consequences. The only time I ever had any hassle was the one time I got arsy and went "there is literally no way this was overweight, it was a plastic toy, it must have weight about 300g" and got into a pointless to-and-fro that escalated a bit, I learned my lesson and every other time I've just ignored it. Sometimes it's probably been valid, sometimes it's been them cocking up, it makes no difference over dozens and dozens of times it's happened, just ignore.
See also: if you ever get an item delivered from abroad by DHL and then they send you an invoice saying they've paid the tax and added their huge fees and now you have to pay them, you can ignore that too, they can ask but they have no legal basis to demand and no recourse. They'll send you letters implying that you're evading tax but you aren't.
See also: if you ever get an item delivered from abroad by DHL and then they send you an invoice saying they've paid the tax and added their huge fees and now you have to pay them, you can ignore that too, they can ask but they have no legal basis to demand and no recourse. They'll send you letters implying that you're evading tax but you aren't.
Hmm, interesting, just received an expensive motorcycle exhaust from Italy & didn't get any tax or fees to pay, will see if something pops up in the post. Thanks
Is this just UK?
I've just sold some XTR levers. Sold for $177. Minus 11.61 sales tax. Minus 26.02 Selling cost/transaction fee. And they wouldn't release my cash for a month as they said the address the item was sent was different to the sellers (it wasn't, item delivered, buyer left feedback saying he'd received it, but ebay still wouldn't release the cash! (got it now).
FB Marketplace it is, and I'll just accept there's gonna be "are these still available" type questions.
They must've had some complaints or a drop in sales. They are reducing the buyer fees and shortening the time before you get paid. The 75p flat fee plus a percentage was ridiculous for small items. The new 10p flat fee plus a percentage makes it better for my little side hustle.