Ebay gone toofar!
PLEASE SIGN MY PETITION NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FROM!
EVEN IF YOU DON'T SELL ON EBAY, SUPPORT WOULD BE APPRECIATED. PLEASE NOTE SIGNATURES ARE NOT COUNTED UNTIL YOU VERIFY THE SIGNATURE LINK SENT TO YOUR E-MAIL.
Ebay UK are wanting to implement, what I feel is a dangerous and disgraceful policy from 4th February 2025 so I'm petitioning to stop it! They have now said that sellers will no longer receive their funds straight away and only receive upon item showing it has been delivered. I list below the following reasons why I feel this hasn't been thought out well and is worrying, my points as follows:-
Firstly I must stress any company putting 100% faith into a system, or in this instance, a tracking system to work 365 days a year without problems or glitches on couriers' websites. Technology should NEVER be trusted 100%.
Sometimes I have noticed items I've sent have shown only as posted or in transit for many weeks, and show not delivered on the main couriers website, yet some have left feedback saying they got their item. Now everyone lets you know they got their item. So what then? How do sellers get their funds released if Ebays or the couriers system shows item still in transit due to a glitch that's never fixed? Yet the buyer hasn't complained they didn't receive their item. If the system of releasing sellers fund is solely based on tracking showing as delivered and there are serious tracking glitches, this is foolhardy for ebay to trust & put faith into technology working 100% at any time.
Secondly in relation to the paragraph above, it means no one can now offer to send very cheap items under £20 untracked. Royal mail cover items of £20 in value even if sent with no tracking if they get lost, yet there will be no tracking to show It's been delivered on the Ebay website, so therefore again, as there is no evidence to show It's even delivered, means funds won't be released to the seller. So therefore everyone will have to only send via tracked services which cost more to post.
Thirdly and VERY IMPORTANT! Some items sellers are selling are large/heavy and very high value items! Any one who ever sent anything like this with values over £100 will know not only how expensive it is for UK postage but internationally as well.
As an example on such items I'm selling is going to cost £295 to post to Australia fully tracked, as this was the only service that would cover over £1000 in value. If Ebay hold ALL my funds till delivery, where am I going to get £295 from to pay the courier to post my item to Australia?
I feel a business seller who possibly makes a good profit may have this amount as back up funds in the bank to pay out whilst they wait for their funds from Ebay. But where is the average private household seller who isn't a business, likely to find that amount to pay a courier to post the item, who is only selling personal possessions?
So therefore if Ebay hold my funds I will certainly not have any funds to that amount in savings to pay a courier to post internationally let alone UK on most of my items. therefore this is most certainly restricting me from selling abroad the most.
So this means I will certainly NOT be able to offer international postage as international costs, even on smaller lower value items, are costly and you will have to find the money to post it, so therefore my sales will be restricted even more so, yet my biggest audience is international people outside the UK.
Ebay mention nothing about what happens if the item is returned and you receive it in bad condition. How do I prove it wasn't me who did the damage. For example: a costume I sold was sent clean and came back with an un -removable stain. What then as couriers only let the SENDER make a claim, NOT the recipient!
In Ebays recent nice little message to members about this policy change they want to implement, they don't go into any nitty gritty like this, it doesn't it seem to have been thought through very well at all.
If you're not happy with this please sign my petition today and stop Ebay implementing this new change that many of us are not happy about. Also e-mail or message Ebay through their website here or their facebook page messenger service to show your disgust!
sign here:-
https://www.change.org/p/ebay-gone-to-far-with-new-policy-change-from-4th-feb-2025
EVEN IF YOU DON'T SELL ON EBAY, SUPPORT WOULD BE APPRECIATED. PLEASE NOTE SIGNATURES ARE NOT COUNTED UNTIL YOU VERIFY THE SIGNATURE LINK SENT TO YOUR E-MAIL.
Ebay UK are wanting to implement, what I feel is a dangerous and disgraceful policy from 4th February 2025 so I'm petitioning to stop it! They have now said that sellers will no longer receive their funds straight away and only receive upon item showing it has been delivered. I list below the following reasons why I feel this hasn't been thought out well and is worrying, my points as follows:-
Firstly I must stress any company putting 100% faith into a system, or in this instance, a tracking system to work 365 days a year without problems or glitches on couriers' websites. Technology should NEVER be trusted 100%.
Sometimes I have noticed items I've sent have shown only as posted or in transit for many weeks, and show not delivered on the main couriers website, yet some have left feedback saying they got their item. Now everyone lets you know they got their item. So what then? How do sellers get their funds released if Ebays or the couriers system shows item still in transit due to a glitch that's never fixed? Yet the buyer hasn't complained they didn't receive their item. If the system of releasing sellers fund is solely based on tracking showing as delivered and there are serious tracking glitches, this is foolhardy for ebay to trust & put faith into technology working 100% at any time.
Secondly in relation to the paragraph above, it means no one can now offer to send very cheap items under £20 untracked. Royal mail cover items of £20 in value even if sent with no tracking if they get lost, yet there will be no tracking to show It's been delivered on the Ebay website, so therefore again, as there is no evidence to show It's even delivered, means funds won't be released to the seller. So therefore everyone will have to only send via tracked services which cost more to post.
Thirdly and VERY IMPORTANT! Some items sellers are selling are large/heavy and very high value items! Any one who ever sent anything like this with values over £100 will know not only how expensive it is for UK postage but internationally as well.
As an example on such items I'm selling is going to cost £295 to post to Australia fully tracked, as this was the only service that would cover over £1000 in value. If Ebay hold ALL my funds till delivery, where am I going to get £295 from to pay the courier to post my item to Australia?
I feel a business seller who possibly makes a good profit may have this amount as back up funds in the bank to pay out whilst they wait for their funds from Ebay. But where is the average private household seller who isn't a business, likely to find that amount to pay a courier to post the item, who is only selling personal possessions?
So therefore if Ebay hold my funds I will certainly not have any funds to that amount in savings to pay a courier to post internationally let alone UK on most of my items. therefore this is most certainly restricting me from selling abroad the most.
So this means I will certainly NOT be able to offer international postage as international costs, even on smaller lower value items, are costly and you will have to find the money to post it, so therefore my sales will be restricted even more so, yet my biggest audience is international people outside the UK.
Ebay mention nothing about what happens if the item is returned and you receive it in bad condition. How do I prove it wasn't me who did the damage. For example: a costume I sold was sent clean and came back with an un -removable stain. What then as couriers only let the SENDER make a claim, NOT the recipient!
In Ebays recent nice little message to members about this policy change they want to implement, they don't go into any nitty gritty like this, it doesn't it seem to have been thought through very well at all.
If you're not happy with this please sign my petition today and stop Ebay implementing this new change that many of us are not happy about. Also e-mail or message Ebay through their website here or their facebook page messenger service to show your disgust!
sign here:-
https://www.change.org/p/ebay-gone-to-far-with-new-policy-change-from-4th-feb-2025
