IE Seller News: April 2025
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Buyer has never heard of "These locked boxes " before !!.
I have sent and received 100's of Parcels to lockers or parcel shops. Most of what I sell and buy on Vinted are sent to go to parcel shops or lockers. And as I think most people know lockers are at every Tesco shop & filling station as well as at Mor...
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.
Selling expensive item to 0 feedback person
Hello I am selling a laptop and have today accepted an offer on it. However the buyer is now sending me weird messages late at night in broken English, and asking for videos etc even after they’ve paid. They asked for a detailed video of it working a...
Scam Buyer
So I sold a pair of jeans..put wrong leg length..when buyer recieved he told me this and asked what I was going to do..I stupidly gave refund without him opening a case and provided him with a ROYAL MAIL QR code to return them..he is now refusing to ...
SIMPLE DELIVERY AND BUYERS PROTECTION FEE WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO SELLERS & BUYERS
Simple delivery will never be acceptable to sellers and buyers. Inflated postage prices created by eBay just to make them more money.What was wrong with sellers deciding for themselves how THEY wanted their items to be despatched … what service to us...
Tracking number
I have just sold an item. So I go to the item on the app (iPhone) only to find the buyers address is nowhere to be found just a message saying the address will be on the postage lable I don't use postage through eBay because the amount is always wron...
Opinions on eBay removing fees for private sellers
Hello everyone, I've just checked my emails to see that eBay have completely scrapped fees for private sellers. I want to know what everyone thinks about this? in my opinion this is unfair on business sellers as we will now be competing with traders ...
Refund
Buyer returned item in bits l oppened an appeal with ebay downloading all the information and photos, showing the item was damaged beyond repair, they gave buyer a full refund I've lost £150 so will be closing account after 25 years.
How does ebay count completed orders?
Hello,Made a sale today. In my app showing year to date I have 29 orders less than the threshold to get caught by the taxman. I quote here from https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/sales-reporting/uk-digital-sales-reporting?id=5454 "Your to...
Is Simple Delivery now mandatory?
Well its the 16th of April and I am still being given the (very welcome) option of custom delivery. I'd like to think it is because ebay have seen sense and decided to let sellers choose. More likely they have run into problems rolling it out and kic...
What right do Ebay have to hold payments for two days or more?
Ebay recently changed their policy guidelines for all private sellers after saying it’s free to sell on Ebay again (another Lie shifted that to the buyer as Buyer protection) So you sell an item on ebay, Ebay will now in the New world hold your payme...
Simple Delivery and Royal Mail Collections
I’ve seen this question asked over and over this weekend, will I be able to get a Royal Mail collection with Simple Delivery?According to the FAQ you can… “Collection is available for items sent through Simple Delivery with Royal Mail labels only. Yo...
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...
Australian eBay listing onto eBay UK
HiI live in Australia, and I am an Australian citizen.I have an item listed on eBay Australia that is only useful in the UKHow do I get this item listed on eBay UK?
Best way to deal with a harrassing scammer
If not a scammer, then at the very least someone I want nothing to do with. So this individual emails me asking for an additional photo of a listed item. They are very rude from the outset, and when I upload the photo to the listing they send an insu...
