eBay Australia and Woolworths pilot ‘Parcel Drop-Off’ service
eBay Australia, retailer Woolworths and CouriersPlease are working together on a new pilot ‘Parcel Drop-Off’ service, which will be available in five Woolworths supermarkets across Sydney. Local eBay sellers will be able to drop off a sold item at a Woolworths store and have it shipped by CouriersPlease directly to their buyer.
(UK-based Post&Parcel readers will be familiar with a similar tie-up that eBay has with Argos, called eBay Drop-off.)
In a statement issued on Tuesday (19 April), eBay said that the new service uses a fixed delivery price model to “make selling online easier”.
Woolworths and eBay have already established a working relationship through their Click and Collect partnership.
Steve Brennen, Senior Director Marketing and Retail Innovation at eBay said: “When we launched our Click and Collect partnership with Woolworths one year ago we shook up the industry by allowing smaller sellers and their customers to take advantage of extra convenience and efficiency. Now we’re using our expertise to remove some of the friction involved in selling too.
“We see this as the natural extension of a partnership that has exceeded expectations to date. The Click and Collect partnership has rolled out nationally eight months ahead of schedule with more than 10,000 sellers now taking advantage of the program that has sent an additional 200,000 shoppers into a Woolworths or BIG W store.”
Tom Windeyer, Head of Marketplace at Woolworths added: “To date, over 200,000 customers have picked up their eBay parcels in our stores, giving them a more convenient and easy shopping experience. Parcel Drop-Off is just another way we are able to help our customers with convenient solutions that suit their individual lifestyles.”
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