UK Seller News: April 2025
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Combined postage with Simple Delivery ?
In the Simple Delivery FAQ I see no mention of combining postage when selling several items to the same buyer.Is that now gone ?! If so it will have a HUGE impact on many sellers of low value items.As a buyer I also always check sellers other items a...
Congratulation to Ebay for screwing up big time. oldest fraud in town
With the new SD postal system you have opened the door to the old and biggest fraud of all time.The item that never was. So a buyer buys a lovely gold chain weighing 30 gms for £200 and the seller sends him an empty 10gm envelope, but because the SD ...
Simple Delivery rip-off
Simple Delivery is now the default setting but it is possible to opt out of Simple Delivery by selecting "Switch to Advance Options". Why is Ebay pushing this? Simple, Ebay gets a discount on the postage and creams off some of the cost the buyer pays...
In this case do I have to provide a returns address label to the buyer and if so HOW do I do this ?
Very recently we received a buyer return request from a buyer who created their account only 2 weeks ago and ordered a high value item from us. After the buyer received the item tracked, initial communications from the buyer didn’t quite make sense r...
simple shipping
Starting from 15 April, Simple Delivery will be the only delivery method available for private sellers when listing most items. It’s designed to reduce the effort that shipping takes and offers 20% off postage costs, on average*.Does this mean that a...
Private seller Isle of Man Simple Delivery
Been selling on ebay for more than 10 years - being forced to use simple delivery - IM post codes (sellers) can only get parcelforce service as an option. My sales are majority small/large letter 0-250g and value of less than £5. Any suggestions.
Paying extra on top of prepaid label at post ofice
Not sure if anyone has also had to do the same, but I basically sold an item whilst I was on holiday and told my buyer I would post when I returned. All good, and they purchased the prepaid label via Royal Mail with simple delivery. My mistake, but I...
Ebay prices for Royal Mail are WRONG
I have selected posting of small items via Royal Mail based the option ebay offer (based in supplying the correct size and weight) and multiple Royal Mail post offices are rejecting them as 'UNDERPAID'. For other items they did accept, Royal Mail sen...
Simple Delivery - Under declarations.
BE CAREFUL I've just ended a few listings and restarted them and rather than BULK relisting them did them one by one (yawn) so I could get a better sense of this new SD thing. 1st - in my listings view it shows MY old P&P policies still2nd - when I s...
Item refunded without my consent
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I sold an item on the 12th March 2025, it was sent through the global shipping program and arrived at the hub on the 16th of March, 3 weeks later there was still no update on tracking and the buyer...
Not so Simple Delivery
If you don't want Simple Delivery on your listings please complain directly to eBayI just did.If you like it that's fine I just don't understand why, after April 15th it's going to be compulsory for personal sellers on items over £10.Everyone that wa...
Resolved! Simple Delivery compensation
Just to say that I only used once, so far so good. However, some items I sell are more than £200, and I don't I feel comfortable using just Royal Mail 24 or 28.After double checking with eBay's CS, I was told that:*Royal Mail Special Delivery isn't p...
simple delivery
Where is the 2-10kg parcel option on Simple Delivery ? just seem to go up to 15kg after 2kg
Postage
Ebay have now decided that all items are sent tracked 48 regardless of the value. This is ok for buy it now but useless for auctions as I do not know what postage to charge until the auction is finished. Why can't ebay allow the seller to arrange pos...
Postage should be simple
Simple delivery is NOTonce YOU ebay have ensure it is simple, correct, cost effective and actually working then you can promote it or ENFORCE ITbut you haven’t got there yet have you on so many fronts 1) overcharging 2j missing weight options3) missi...
