eBay problems, resolutions, shenanigans, questions and info (not bike finds)

Is the straight to bank account method something you have to opt in to our a choice at checkout?

I think it was like a ‘we would like you to change your settings to ebay managed payments’; they’re targeting people at random to try the new system. I may have had the choice to opt out but I foolishly just went along with it.
Payments are still paypal so no change there but the time it can take to get your money is ridiculous. I had one payment complete in a couple of days but if someone buys from you at the end of the week, everything stops at the weekend and it’s about five days all in before the money is in your bank.
A lot of sellers on the ebay forums are absolutely f’in livid about it!

Sounds to me like they are going after the paypal fee now that paypal are a separate company with no overall increase in charges?

Trouble is if wait for funds to clear in bank account then will be late dispatching, which then affects seller performance which seller final fee promotion qualification is based on.

Wonder how this works with the £1 selling fee promotions ebay have every 3-4 weeks. Do they take £1 + 2.8% + 30p?

I wish Facebook market place wasnt so shit for general selling. I loath Facebook as much as ebay, but at least it would give a choice of which loathsome company to use.

So anyone know if I can just ignore eBay’s ‘getting paid has changed’ notification and keep getting paid through PayPal? Got a few items running at the moment and could do without the funds being held up.

Details here: https://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/selling/managed-payments

Worth a read;

1. Seems you dont have to do until they "invite" you (to$$ers). Terms are pretty much as I said above. Plus as mentioned payment delay of 1-2 days. No payment at weekends.
   
2. Also you will still get charged 12.8% + 30p if its cash on collection even though they are not processing the payment.
   
3. No mention of how this will work on the £1 max final value fee promotions.
   
   

Stupid move by ebay IMO as all that will happen is for high value cash on collection sellers will just find a way to complete the physical sale outside ebay (obvs need to be subtle to avoid the chargeback phildas mentions up thread, but easy enough).

Thought ebay had learned through recent improved customer contact facilities and final value promos that a more customer focused approach increased usage and revenue, but no, seems they are reverting to their old dickish behavior. Helped by no real competition. Amazon used item marketplace still not very organised and too expensive and Facebook is still too chaotic.

Still they got a big warning from the rise of Facebook Market place, which prompted some changes. Hopefully this will prompt Facebook to sort themselves out better.

I also noticed the other week that Paypal have started charging an additional 2% on all foreign currency ebay sales including Global Shipping ebay sales, even though the customer has already paid for this in the exchange rate. Arseheads..

I won an item about two weeks ago, which was posted the next day first class. Estimated delivery was Monday 8th, which has now passed. No tracking, just a reference number that says there'll be an update when they attempt to deliver. Assuming the item is lost somewhere in the Royal Mail system, how long is reasonable to wait before asking for a refund?

I think these recent changes might just be it for me selling on eBay (bike stuff or otherwise). Would rather sell on here or locally for less ££. Although actually when taking in to account fees, it’s not usually much of a difference

I dont mind using ebay when the £1 promotions are on. I find it the least hassle to get rid of stuff. Need to wait and see how this pans out really.

For reference I sent something from Reading up to Lochgilphead on Thursday that arrived today and something to snowbound Norwich on Monday that arrived Friday, so I would certainly be asking the Seller for tracking info and what their thoughts are?

(Royal Mail tracking is a bit sporadic at the moment, with not much tracking info other than when delivery happens).

I think these recent changes might just be it for me selling on eBay (bike stuff or otherwise). Would rather sell on here or locally for less ££. Although actually when taking in to account fees, it’s not usually much of a difference

It's certainly making things far more difficult. Despite ebay claiming that we'll pay less fees, the opposite is true for most private sellers. I sold a Thomson post last week for £50 which netted me about 38 after fees and postage. Some guy messaged me asking if I'd sell for £40 and I had to explain that I'd rather keep something I didn't need than make £28 back! But I can see from his point of view £40 still isn't such a bad offer. I'd have happily sold on here for £40.
Don't know if it's covid related but recently I've had zero to very little interest in my ebay items and some really poor offers.
Does anyone know why LFGSS has the rule about not advertising on here and ebay? I appreciate that things don't move as quick on here but taking fees into account I would happily sell most things for 25% less on here knowing I wasn't getting constantly lowballed...

Not exactly sure the reason why we only allow stuff for sale on here and not elsewhere, but I’m happy with that personally. I think it might go some way to reducing the amount of ‘sellers’ selling here, keeping it more community-based.

I’m selling some records on here at the moment. I’ve tried to keep everything ‘forum prices’ and in some cases I’m second guessing myself, thinking ‘hmmm maybe I shouldn’t let that go so cheap’. But then I work out what I’d actually get for it after fees if I sold on eBay and it’s the same. More than happy for someone here to pocket the difference rather than eBay, Plus it’s sooo much nicer buying and selling here! I’ve yet to have a bad experience here - or at least I’ve never had an issue that wasn’t easily and amicably sorted. I cannot say the same for eBay!

Does anyone know why LFGSS has the rule about not advertising on here and ebay?

I think it’s a good rule.

Retrobike classifieds is full of cunts just posting links to their eBay sales.

Gets pretty boring.

So do the listings for like 174 items (mostly shite) with zero photos, and the posts that are an overpriced frame/bike/whatever then literally 20 odd pages of “bump” and “to the top” getting posted every day or two.

Oh and there’s the people selling stuff for £1k+ and asking for payment PayPal gift.

Yeah, classifieds here is pretty darned good.

@AlexD @M_V

Yes! Both very good points indeed. I like to think I've contributed more to non-classifieds and I've sold on here rarely but yeah I can totally see how it could be easily ruined.

Yeah, classifieds here is pretty darned good

This all day

Similar situation here, I bought a Record group set on the 31st and a seat post on the 1st, both were posted second class signed for and neither of them have shown up. The record group is coming from Chertsey, I think I could walk the distance faster than RM can drive it.

I don’t know if my stuff is lost and RM won’t look into it until the end of the coming week when both parcels are 10 working days overdue.

It’s pretty frustrating because I can’t build the bike and I can’t buy anything else, just wait.

Seems pretty random at the moment. I just had a couple of Chris King star nuts drop through the door that were posted on December 23rd!
For selling I've been using Hermes as although they have a very bad rep. I've personally had few issues and all my stuff has been delivered really fast...

I’ve been using myhermes pretty exclusively recently. I’ve had a set of tyres I sold here go missing, but other than that I’ve had fewer issues and faster delivery than I was having with Royal Mail last year.

Bought some brakes in November off an eBay business account with hundreds of items for sale, and they never turned up. Mid-Jan. the seller issued my refund, asking that I let them know if it arrived. This weekend I found the exact same listing posted again, so I bid on it, and 24 hours later the listing was cancelled. What gives?

I'm going to go to the sorting office tomorrow morning on the off-chance that my parcels are just on a shelf there. We've had no cards, and the tracking doesn't show that they tried to deliver it, so I suspect it's a wasted journey but hey ho. What a pain.

My experience with Royal Mail recently (SE13) is that letters are getting delivered as normal but parcels are taking way longer. Not had any issues sending stuff, it's just the local place being short of people due to staff self isolating etc

Sent an item
As described? Check
On time? Check
Perfectly functional exactly as expected? Check

Feedback - neutral!!!!

not enough bubble wrap so 'fortunate' all was fine. Dickhead!

I’m sorry, i buy stuff so i can re-use the bubble wrap

Ah, yes, that Faberge egg (which you just chucked) was a real winner :-) :-) :-)

Went to the sorting office, they have hugely cut down on their opening hours in response to the pandemic, so they were shut.

I’ll go again tomorrow, where I predict there will be a massive queue as people who were normally served in six hours now have half that, so all cluster up together to fit in the narrow alley- just like the post office, with 20-30 people winding around a small waiting area.

All of which sound like good reasons not to go.

Apart from which, without a "delivery attempted" card there's nothing they will do: even in normal circumstances they wouldn't search the place, on the off-chance it's there.

Right now, only Special Delivery will be cuttingting through the backlog.