Seller News: November 2025
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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...
Simple Delivery - loss/theft in transit
Member for well over 20 years, first time of selling on Ebay.26th OctI was the seller in an Ebay transaction (Item no: 257167708086). I sent 2 coins packaged securely to the buyer - the item was collected from my home and I received a confirmation fr...
Pricing has changed
Heads up. I almost always price Buy It Nows at prices ending in 99p: £9.99, £19.99, £24.99 and so on. Just sold an item and was surprised to find the buyer had pad £20.01. Checked my listings and most have gone up by 1p or 2p. Looks silly! Anyone els...
Description formatting issues when revising advert on phone
Is anyone else experiencing problems with a nicely structured advert description becoming scrambled with formatting code added when you revise an advert on a mobile phone? I usually create my adverts on ebay.co.uk then save for later, then add my pho...
"Simple" delivery of large items - what a fail - forced to wait at home for a whole day.
So having sold a large item (plastic wall cladding sheets, about 1kg, but 1 metre long) I had the joy of "simple" delivery to content with. Only option for the size was the large size, which it turns out is DHL collecting it. No option to drop off, h...
Note from buyer: I am sending this to someone and I don't want him to find out that the item is from
I've had a few sales with a note from the (same) buyer: 'I am sending this to someone and I don't want him to find out that the item is from ebay so kindly don't put any receipt or invoice in the parcel and send it in plain packaging.' These have all...
Flat Fee Buyer Protection?
If there is now a flat fee of 10p for buyer protection why are all my buyer protection fees 17p, they have gone up??? I only sell my books for 99p...they are dearer now for the buyer...
Refunds on simple delivery
I had a couple of items listed on eBay from before they introduced simple delivery, when the items automatically relisted, I didn't realize eBay changed the postage from small parcel to large letter, when an item sold, I paid for the postage myself a...
Change is Buyer Protection fee %?
I changed some prices yesterday and everything looked 'normal' but today I am listing a few new books and I've noticed the buyer protection fee has changed. Which means if you're like me (a private seller) and you like your sale prices to be a nice r...
Declining sales
I have been selling on ebay for 23 years but this year has been disasterous. I usually pay about 5% on the promotional fees. I resent having to pay this but without it I get virtually no views.I thought things would pick up in November (usually my be...
Royal Mail 2d Tracking
Hi, im just wondering if anyone else is experiencing royal mails 2d tracking not updating? (royal mail 24/48 / 1st / 2nd class post) i have a number of shipments which have been delivered but they don't seem to be updating on eBay. The standard Track...
Generating Label stuck even though payment for label was taken
I sold an item today and I paid for DPD courier label so I can drop off the item in my local town but on the webpage it says "Generating labels" in red text. The money I paid for the label has been taken from my credit card and it says that I have to...
POSTING TO FRANCE
I'm hoping someone will be able to help meAnd Im also hoping someone from Ebay will see this as I am at my wits endI sold a £500 chandelier to a buyer in France on saturday.. Buyer contacted me in the morning, because she had received a message from ...
Change to Buyer Protection Fee from 11 November 2025
In case anyone hasn't noticed ebay's latest announcement about BPF, here it is below:========= Changing the fixed fee portion of the Buyer Protection fee On Tuesday 11 November, we’re updating the fixed fee portion of Buyer Protection from up to £0.1...
Can't withdraw my funds. Why is Ebay not allowing me to withdraw my sales receipts?
I recently sold an item and Can't withdraw my funds. Why is Ebay not allowing me to withdraw my sales receipts?The so called 'NEW ' process says there is a 'Withdraw' option in the sellers hub which we can opt for at any time to transmit funds to our...
Resolved! buyer abused a return, ebay promised to refund the return label fee. almost 3 months on, no sign of
As it's only £3.25 i havent really looked for the return label refund before. However today ive had a buyer curse me, spend over an hour arguing with me in messages all because he thinks the 6 RIGHT ARROW keycap on a keyboard 'should be labelled as 6...
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