UK Seller News: April 2025
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buyer responsibility
Is it buyer responsibility to read description and check details before bidding?
Post Office turning away eBay sold packages
FOR GOODNESS SAKE WHAT IS GOING ON WITH eBAY ???Visited my local Post Office outlet this pm. The customer in front of me had 4 of her items sold on eBay refused due to incorrect printed labels supplied by fleece-bay. The member of staff confirmed thi...
Another Simple Delivery question
I've decided to bite the bullet and have a go at Simple Delivery. I'm selling my LP collection, so it's pretty straightforward to set the correct price I've excluded Evri as an option, as I've had issues with them in the past. I added in the cost of ...
Post Office to offload all directly-owned branches - BBC News
Post Office to offload all directly-owned branches - BBC News
Tracking numbers not being added to orders
I bought 3 Royal Mail labels on eBay last night (not SD). Posted this morning. I just noticed that the tracking numbers have not been added to the orders. I had to add them manually.Is this happening to anyone else?
Business closing, poor sales and then......
I am closing my eBay business, because it is not worth it anymore, literally making a few pounds a day and having gone from a £70k business, the Brexit mess and the Russia illegal war has ended sales all over Europe. High postage prices in the UK and...
NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY
AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.
Help really Needed
My 4 Bottles were sent in an ordinary envelope like a letter! So, my order arrived broken and leaked so that Royal Mail placed my order in a special leak-proof plastic bag. I should post broken pieces of glass BACK TO SELLER IN CHINA! Seller wants me...
Only Royal Mail selected as courier for Simple Delivery yet 2 postage options for buyers...
I only have Royal Mail selected as courier in my postage preferences for Simple Delivery as I will not use Evri under any circumstances. Listings are set as Buyer Pays postage. I've looked at what a buyer sees as postage options when purchasing an it...
Resolved! Simple delivery packaging costs
I can't figure out how to factor in the packaging costs on simple delivery. I'm selling vinyl records and the packaging costs £1 per item I sell. That's a fixed cost can't reduce. I can't 'add it to the sale price' because I don't list under buy it n...
Resolved! Goodnight everyone.
Goodnight to all.
Resolved! One Word....
'Sausages'. Do carry on.:-)
NEW postage is awful
I sold an item on Ebay and sent it via royal mail tried to add the tracking details but it said i had to use the new simple delivery and download a label. Tried contacting Ebay but they were as much help as a chocolte tea pot to put it mildly. I hav ...
Stopping sellers using Evri
I am sure there will be many like me who are bemused how Evri are still in business. I have had delivery after delivery fail or arrive late and nothing gets done because sellers keep using them.I just did a Trust pilot search on Evri UK their one sta...
SIMPLE DELIVERY
Whoever devised Simple Delivery is obviously not an Ebay seller!! The whole scheme is absurd!! I'm hoping that thousands of people, if not millions!!, will email Ebay to say that until the Simple Delivery system is abandoned then they will not be lis...
Incomplete order
I order 20 vapes from someone but 7 are missing, what should I do?
AS A PRIVATE SELLER, EBAY PLEASE BRING BACK SELLER FEES & BIN SIMPLE DELIVERY
I wish Ebay would bring back seller fees for us private sellers & at least give us the option to opt out of this ridiculous 'Simple Delivery' nonsense altogether! I don't sell much, i'm not interested in QR Codes as i'm not on TikTok or like 10 Years...
Resolved! Option to send invoices disappeared
Option on sold listings to ‘send payment details’ has disappeared and I’m unable to send people invoices for combined orders like I normally do. I did a live chat with customer service, but I don’t really think they knew what I was talking about. I h...
Simple delivery - when will ebay back down and reverse this stupidity?
Anyone willing to take a guess? I'm going for September 1st.....(2025).
Simple Delivery and letters - clarification needed please
Is an £4.85 item today going to cost £7.61 soon?An item that is for sale today at £4 + 85p P&P, next week will cost me an additional 91p (or is the % charged on P&P as well?) for buyer fees from the 4th.I’ve heard that Simple Delivery is going to bec...
How the Hell do I combine postage for several items?
Someone has bought several items and wants combined postage. Can't send payment details because ebay changed the postage method!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another has bought several...some with my normal Royal Mail postage and the others were changed...
Feedback (or lack thereof)
I've been a seller (and buyer) on ebay for many many years...... and one of the best features of eBay in general is the feedback facility, for both buyers and sellers. I can't count how many times viewing a sellers feedback comments good and bad has ...
Shop closed and banned from eBay day after opening. No reason provided besides major policy breach
Shop closed and banned from eBay day after opening. No reason provided besides major policy breach
Combined Postage without authorisation
Hi, I have multiple safes for sale, and today a buyer bought 2, but they were only charged 1 postage charge by ebay.Each safe has a £10.80 postage charge, so i should have received £21.60 to post both safes.Anyone know why ebay hasn't charged my buye...
eBay is holding my money for the past one month
eBay is holding on to my money for almost a month now and I have provided the documents requested and the eBay agent are not consistent at all, some told me to wait for 48 hours and some told me to wait for five working days and this has being linger...
Resolved! Ebay stop ramming Simple Delivery down our throats! If we aren't interested stop forcing it!
So I ended all my listings. Disabled Simple Delivery... and set them all to Custom Delivery. I dont own a smartphone, I dont wish to use a QR code, I dont own a printer. I write my envelopes and take them in person to my local village post office. Au...
Hi all keep getting downstream failure message halfway through listing then lose all entered info
Is there a problem at present keep getting downstream failure message halfway through listing and losing my info
I haven't been able to make a new listing or revise one for almost 2 weeks. Need Help
Hi all, First time poster so I apologise if this in the wrong section. As title suggests I can not make any new listings or revise any existing listings without getting a "global error" page with the URL "undefined:XS_CALL_ERROR". This has been going...
Ebay's new buyer protection scam
So I have been a seller on and off her since June 2001, Over the years I have sent items recorded delivery that either never turn up , or arrive with no notification of delivery. Now someone wants to charge a buyer a fee for safe delivery, when they ...
Ebay "buyer protection" targetting charity sales through their own scheme
Like many, I'm really unhappy at ebay's new tax on buyers masquerading as "buyer protection" - but what really angers me is it is so badly thought through, it even hits ebay charity sales. I assemble an item, and sell and donate most of the proceeds ...
