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Royal Mail: updated delivery restrictions & packaging requirements for bladed items
Royal Mail has added delivery restrictions and packaging requirements to bladed items and sharp or pointed objects which will be in force from 7 May 2024. If you are posting bladed items such as cutlery knives that you have sold on eBay via Royal Mai...
Resolved! IOSS number when posting to EU
Is there a limit where Ebay do not collect the tax on an overseas sale & the buyer will expect to pay custom charges at their end?Somewhere in the memory cells a figure of £135 is popping in, but I can't find anything in the help pages. There is no I...
Resolved! SPARES/REPAIR BEING RETURNED AS NOT WORKING EBAY BULLYING.
Hi all, at my wits end with ebay. Sold two high end vintage (80's) german cameras with expensive rechargeable batteries to a UK buyer. These were my fathers and have been sat in a padded case for years, not used, untested etc etc, they did work I use...
Item returned Addressee Gone Away
Hi,Please can someone advise me. I sold an item for £15 plus £3.49 postage and sent the item via Royal Mail Tracked 48 and it has been returned to me. The postie wrote Address Incomplete and ticked the box Addressee Gone Away. My policy on the item s...
con
i sold an item for 10 buy it now with 3.29 post that ebay said it would cost when i posted it cost me 5.78 to send after ebay took its fees i got 4.76 back not even what it cost to send it how do people make money as i got nothing for item only part ...
The Price Game
Is it necessary to always be trying to beat the market price and trying to make yours as cheap as possible, especially when sourcing from a different country.
YODEL
Just read this on-line; YODEL
Order refunded for non-delivery but Package was delvered later
The Buyer in this case says he was only partly refunded even though my records show that each item on the order was fully refunded. He has therefore refused to refund me in full. Is there a method on eBay to raise this matter as a case so it can be p...
Aliexpress
Have you ever tried to Aliexpress arbitrage. How did it go for you?
HMRC DONT BELIEVE WHAT THE MEDIA AND SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING
some media outlets and miss informed people are spreading the word that the Tax man is after you ,no they are not, scare mongering is doing the job it self ,its nothing to worry about , the tax people only know what you tell them and as long as you a...
What happens if I change a listing after accepting reduced FVF offer
I just thought I'd share this information as I can't find it anywhere on the eBay help pages. Apologies if you know this already.If you accept a reduced FVF offer from eBay and list an item, and subsequently want to revise it, you may lose the reduce...
Going round the bend,rapidly.
Sold an item a couple of days ago. It was collected by the buyer and we are both happy. eBay keep telling me that I should be posting it off. I have been trying in vain to mark it as a completed sale by clicking on item dispatched on the littel drop ...
Sellers - Stop using 'AI' nonsense for descriptions, you are losing sales....
It might seem an easy option but I won't buy from sellers who use the lazy option for descriptions, it's sometimes completely wrong or just nonsense and does not tell me want I want to know to make a buying descision so I don't. I want real descripti...
Why are Messages sent on the Message Platform on eBay not forwarded by email as they remain unseen
When you have something urgent to communicate to a Buyer or Seller before an auction ends, you only have the option of posting a message to the messages section but buyers and sellers are not aware of the messages posted there unless they look specif...
Buyer disposed of broken item so I can't claim from courier
Buyer messaged me saying item arrived broken. I looked at courier claim policy which says that only the sender can make a claim but very specific photos have to be included. I messaged buyer requesting these photos and she said that she "doesn't thin...
Am I about to get scammed?
I just sold an expensive limited edition item to someone with no feedback, based in China which I'll be shipping through the Global Shipping Programme from the UK. Maybe I'm being overly cautious but the fact the seller hasn't got any feedback and is...
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