Well that's a surprise from ebay!

[Bki26]

Its a shame royal mail are now doing the 30p per item collection charge though

Wow a whole 30p for someone to collect a parcel when you'd probably spend more in fuel/time dropping it off, hell a cheap bar of chocolate is £1 and you still have to go buy that yourself.

For the service that's provided royal mail is underappreciated compared again other delivery companies.

 

[Seadog]

I don't own a printer so that mite be my next purchase. I believe you can buy one just for postage lable.

Or get a QR code and print it at a drop shop.

 

[Robotstar5]

Or get a QR code and print it at a drop shop.

That's what Mrs Robo does, they scan the QR code on her phone and print the label for the parcel

 

[Blobber]

Wow a whole 30p for someone to collect a parcel when you'd probably spend more in fuel/time dropping it off, hell a cheap bar of chocolate is £1 and you still have to go buy that yourself.

For the service that's provided royal mail is underappreciated compared again other delivery companies.

I think your missing the point, it takes a large letter using a 1st class tracked service up to £3.90, when your sending 5 or more letters/parcels a day it adds up on top of the postage price increases we've had already
I've never bad mouthed the royal mail service but it is getting expensive

 

[6ply]

The next laugh is don’t ever try list a slitting saw or a saw blade. Blade or slitting sets off all the alarm bells. God forbid. Oh no. You are violating community standards. The only way you can now list them is if you use age verified postage at twice the price! Wunch of bankers….

I tried to list a bandsaw and gave up trying. It insisted that I used an age-verified delivery service and was not allowed to use the "buyer collects in person" option. Absolutely ridiculous!

 

[Bki26]

I think your missing the point, it takes a large letter using a 1st class tracked service up to £3.90, when your sending 5 or more letters/parcels a day it adds up on top of the postage price increases we've had already
I've never bad mouthed the royal mail service but it is getting expensive

1kg large letter is £2.7 for tracked 48 (+0.3 for collection), unless you're sending time sensitive documents you don't need to buy 24hr delivery for some 2nd items sold on ebay.

 

[cheb]

Its a shame royal mail are now doing the 30p per item collection charge though

Yes, but it's still cheaper than a 20 mile trip to the Post Office. That's not because they've closed the nearest one either. Also I like the RM because of the universal service obligation.

 

[MattF]

I tried to list a bandsaw and gave up trying. It insisted that I used an age-verified delivery service and was not allowed to use the "buyer collects in person" option. Absolutely ridiculous!

Technically, it's not ridiculous. It's merely a situation created in trying to adhere to laws. Rock & a hard place type situation for them.

 

[Seadog]

You might need to investigate more local options. Such as shops that take Evri, DHL etc. parcels. I discovered a while ago the my local Londis also takes RM packages. The pluses being that it's on the way to my morning coffee and the service is far better.

 

[MattF]

You might need to investigate more local options. Such as shops that take Evri, DHL etc. parcels. I discovered a while ago the my local Londis also takes RM packages. The pluses being that it's on the way to my morning coffee and the service is far better.

Most, if not all, the couriers list locations of their drop-off points on their webistes or apps.

 

[Seadog]

As far as I'm aware, RM don't. Which is why I was pleasantly surprised when I found that my Londis did.

 

[cheb]

I've the problem the other way, there are no non RM drop off shops on the islands. And that includes the POs. Nor are the local couriers reliable enough to collect stuff. the latter may have changed now there's a different subcontractor

 

[pint]

You're not losing money to ebay fees and you can still do custom postage options so if anything it's better than what is was before the 12% fees

I've not paid 12% in years, never listed unless it was free or discounted a minimum of 80%.

ebay have fecked the cash on collection royally, a lot of my stuff was collect.

 

[Smouser]

Just sold one of my previously listed items.

Bought the RM48 postage with free collection on the eBay site.
I didn't pay the 30p collection charge

Let's see if they collect tomorrow......

 

[Pete.]

I'm convinced that I've been the subject of dirty tricks by a seller this week. I bid on a piece of equipment, £300, which I didn't expect would be a winning bid but it was good for getting the ball rolling.
A couple of days later I was outbid by £5, which meant someone had put a big bid in clearly designed to jump the price from £145 to my max bid. I left them as the winning bid, I guess they were hoping I would bid against their shill but yesterday when I hadn't upped my bid that bid was cancelled dropping my winning bid down to about £145 again

And then 44 seconds later a new bid from a seller with the same feedback score went in £5 below my max bid making me the winning bidder at almost exactly my maximum bid. I guess they decided if they couldn't get me to bid myself up against their shill, they could at least make me pay the maximum I had allowed for.

In the end I was outbid by a new bidder by a fiver or so. I wanted that machine (it would have been a total bargain at £300) but I'm damned if I am going to bid up a price where there's been shilling going on.

 

[cheb]

That's why I use a bidsniper. Let it bid to the maximum I'll pay but at the close of bidding.

 

[6ply]

I'm convinced that I've been the subject of dirty tricks by a seller this week. I bid on a piece of equipment, £300, which I didn't expect would be a winning bid but it was good for getting the ball rolling.
A couple of days later I was outbid by £5, which meant someone had put a big bid in clearly designed to jump the price from £145 to my max bid. I left them as the winning bid, I guess they were hoping I would bid against their shill but yesterday when I hadn't upped my bid that bid was cancelled dropping my winning bid down to about £145 again

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And then 44 seconds later a new bid from a seller with the same feedback score went in £5 below my max bid making me the winning bidder at almost exactly my maximum bid. I guess they decided if they couldn't get me to bid myself up against their shill, they could at least make me pay the maximum I had allowed for.

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In the end I was outbid by a new bidder by a fiver or so. I wanted that machine (it would have been a total bargain at £300) but I'm damned if I am going to bid up a price where there's been shilling going on.

That's sneaky! I hadn't even considered that. One to watch out for.

 

[angellonewolf]

That's sneaky! I hadn't even considered that. One to watch out for.

been that way for years

used to be easy to see as years ago you could see bidders but they changed that to protect buyers and sellers

but its rare as you can report it but they dont do much normaly


as a guess they seen you decided not to bid extra made a 2nd account and bid the max just over yours as youed get a 2nd notice that youed been out bid in the hope youed bid again

 

[JOEPRO]

Another surprise from ebay!

I sell the odd thing on it and looks like ebay has gave me some automated positive feedback on sales where the purchases didn't leave any feedback.

That's new and probably will dilute confidence in the feedback system IMO