UK Seller News: April 2025
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Am I right that Simple Delivery cannot combine postage for multiple purchases?
Hi, I have not sold anything since last summer, but I want to re-home a few model railway engines. It is quite likely that the same buyer might want more than one. I have just found out about this Simple Delivery system and have been reading all the ...
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...
Funds on hold item sent How long before I get paid?
Hi again all, I've been selling on eBay for around 4 months now. I've sold a decent amount of items, have great feedback and dispatch items same day. I posted on here last week after my funds got placed on hold. It's happened again but this time as t...
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...
Ebay confirms when Simple Delivery will be Mandatory
Someone else posted this as a reply to an existing thread but thought I would post it separately. It appears to be taken from one of ebay's terms and conditions pages but I do not have a link.
Combined shipping with Simple Delivery - confusion!
My buyer bought 10 separate items from me, which I'd listed using the Simple Delivery option, and I want to combine them into one package so he only pays once for postage. He already paid, so I can't raise an invoice for total sales. The advice I've ...
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...
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...
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...
Resolved! EBay asking for national insurance number
Hi everyone, I recently joined for like 1 month and I start selling as a private seller , and now eBay is asking me to provide national insurance number."New UK digital sales reporting legislation requires sellers with 30 or more sales, or who have s...
Title: eBay Is an Absolute Embarrassment — Run by Greedy, Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs
eBay is hands down the worst selling platform on the internet today. It’s a bloated, broken system run by corporate parasites who haven’t evolved in over a decade. They don’t give a single damn about sellers — especially resellers — the very people w...
Buyer cancelled order but I have been charged for postage. What can I do?
Someone bought my item by mistake and immediately cancelled. I found another buyer very quickly and posted, but I was charged for postage for the first order despite the label not even having been printed. Several threads on the same subject suggeste...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
