Ordinary book folding
Summary: cassandradocet expresses concern about buyers choosing the untracked 'piego ordinario' for shipping books to save costs, despite the risk of claiming a package was not received to obtain a refund. aracnotto acknowledges these risks, mentioning rare but possible issues like delivery mishaps or buyers acting dishonestly, and suggests offering only tracked shipping. diegob1972 argues that using 'piego ordinario' is outdated and inconvenient compared to modern locker services. daxsisko shares upcoming changes to eBay's regulations, stating untracked shipments will soon be disallowed for sellers, affecting how funds from sales are released.
Hello everyone; I'd like to express a concern of mine: I sell books, so I use ordinary parcel and registered parcel as preferred payment methods, since they’re cheaper; unfortunately, ordinary parcel isn’t trackable, but it’s also true that it takes quite a lot to lose a package, and in fact it’s hard for a book to go missing; buyers are warned, but of course they choose ordinary parcel because it’s cheap. I suspect someone is trying to be clever: meaning that, since they can’t prove they received it, they pretend the book never arrived in order to get a refund. Wouldn’t it be fair for Ebay to deny the refund if the customer voluntarily chose ordinary parcel?
daxsisko
·2 weeks agoPS: these changes concern private sellers in particular
daxsisko
·2 weeks agovisto che dal 1 settembre cambiera' il regolamento Ebay con sostanziali modifiche ( vedi mail inviata da Ebay ) , presumo che le spedizioni non tracciate di fatto non potranno piu' essere utilizzate dai venditori, pena non ricevere i pagamenti ;
leggendo il nuovo regolamento altra novita' e' che le commissioni saranno pagate dagli acquirenti e non piu' dai venditori
poi ci sono altre modifiche....... ma mi fermo alle due suindicate
diegob1972
·2 weeks agopersonally, in 2026 book post just doesn't make sense, the time wasted at the post office doesn't make up for the 50-cent savings compared to other locker services. then do we want to talk about how packlink is more expensive than other services.... let's talk about it but we're not getting anywhere.
cassandradocet
OP2 weeks ago · EditedUnfortunately, the folded package remains the cheapest shipping option; often the customer looks at that too
diegob1972
·2 weeks agofirst off, on eBay nowadays it only really makes sense to list books at a certain price and avoid the post office for obvious reasons; below a certain threshold there are other platforms where the customer sorts it out themself, buys it, prints the locker label and off they go....
if you factor in getting to the post office, filling out the paper form from the late 1800s (at least that’s what it was like in my day), queueing, a clerk who doesn’t know what a book mailer is, tries to sell you the parcel instead at the max price, checks what’s in the envelope....etc.
it isn’t tracked, on average two or three book mailers used to get lost back in the good old days...
you sell less, oh well, it’s eBay, you sell less anyway....
aracnotto
·2 weeks agoHi,
yes, it’s rare for a parcel to get lost, but it happens...
it happens that the postman leaves it in the mailbox without even ringing the bell, at the mercy of the first person who passes by...
it happens that warehouses catch fire or transport vehicles get into accidents and the packages get damaged/destroyed (even registered ones)...
Yes, it’s rare, but there’s also the sneaky one who keeps the book and the money!
These are all possibilities that the seller has to take into account... but just as the buyer can choose between ordinary and registered mail, the seller can choose to offer only tracked services and eliminate, at least, the opportunist of the day (but selling drastically less)!
Do the math and, probably, you’ll find that it’s “worth” refunding the sneaky one...