Seller News: September 2025
Read the latest updates to streamline your selling experience.
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Royal Mail 2nd-Class Letter – what’s changing and what isn’t
Royal Mail now has Ofcom’s approval to deliver 2nd Class Letters on alternate weekdays and will remove Saturday deliveries. However, Royal Mail has not set a go-live date, meaning as it stands currently your delivery estimates and seller metrics will...
Return shipping label costs?
How and where can ~I find out how much eBay charge for return shipping labels?If it's cheaper I'll send an Evri label myself. The return is a clear cut case of "not as described" abuse, but I will resolve the if the seller actually decides to return ...
Have any vinyl/CD sellers shipped to the US via the GSP hub and not had tariffs applied?
Any eBay reps are unwilling to shed any light on this - physical music formats are exempt from tariffs but I'd like to know if any sellers shipping to the US using the Global Shipping Programme have had tariffs applied or not to the total for the buy...
Resolved! Simple delivery is awful
I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...
Help please
Hi. Sold an item from UK to Germany. After selling fees and usual deductions all went well for £170. Buyer now stating that the item is not genuine and wanted to return. I have a neurodivergent disability and did not notice that they asked for £250 a...
Posting advice please as confused
I've just sold my first item, which was on something called simple delivery. I noticed when I printed the label, it said no signature required, which has scared me, so I want to send it the next working day, special delivery. Would this be okay to do...
Simple delivery is shocking
I sold an item on eBay the other day had no choice but pick DHL collection so I went with that even though I could have sent it cheeper with Royal Mail or Evri. Then the collection was book but guess what no show by DHL for collection. So I had to pa...
NI number private seller
HiI was just wondering what happens after you give EBay your national insurance number?Do you get a letter from HMRC or do you just get an email from EBay?Thank you in advance.
Resolved! Simple Delivery more expensive for letters & large letters
With custom postage being rolled out and eventually the only option, I am a little confused and trying to clarify something please. If I am posting something of large letter size, less than 100 grams and low value - a DVD in it's case for example, I ...
EVRI v ROYAL MAIL …. NO BRAINER !!!
As a past and current regular user and with substantial experiences of both Evri and Royal Mail delivery services, I have now made the decision to give Evri the elbow and use Royal Mail only.If not at home, I prefer to collect the undelivered Royal M...
INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE -- EXTRA ITEMS
I have UK set up so that it adds 0.10p extra on additional postage items. I would like to do this for international postage but cannot figure out how it works -- anyone put me right ?. EBay tell me that it is not possible but am pretty sure that cann...
Ebay simple delivery opt out
So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......
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.
Resolved! EVRI
I used EVRI collect a parcel to deliver to a buyer for the first time. Two days after the courier collected the parcel from me, I had a message from the buyer saying they hadn't received the package. They live 336 miles away from me. Three days in, a...
Royal Mail price increase coming October 2025 could be the final straw.
Let's face it. Small sellers are doomed and have been since eBay decided to concentrate and subsequently bend over backwards for their larger seller's needs. Those that are barely hanging on in this unequal system, with its flawed fee structure and m...
Resolved! Overcharged by eBay
Hi all.I listed my car for sale a couple of days ago and almost at once had a couple of fake BUY it NOW bidders and I had to end the listings after it was marked SOLD and then I had to relist. This happened twice more in the days after, even when I s...
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