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Seller News: May 2025

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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.

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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...

No more cash on collection.

Just saw the new seller rules. I've got no issue with the reduction in free listings. But no more cash on collection I do mind. It means there is no way to make a buyer check on collection and once they accept it pay with no risk of them changing the...

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...

Seller News changes.

You spoke, we listened! In the coming months, we're updating the Overview page to help you focus on key tasks, work faster, & grow your business. Watch out for new changes, and let us know how we could improve. You spoke, we listened! How ?Where? Whe...

Removal of listing

Good eveningI have been selling hatching eggs in here for 10 years and have just had my listings removed for policy violation. Has anyone else had this happen ? Also if I search hatching eggs and I can purchase from multiple buyers who is this the ca...

Resolved! Global Shipping Program USA to UK - Not working US seems to have been taken away this morning

Hey all, This morning I've had several customers contact me from the US saying that even though they are watching my items, and could purchase them yesterday through the GSP they can no longer do this and all my other items that they are not watching...

Simple Delivery problem

I listed an item. In the past when I used eBay's delivery options I could enter size and weight etc. But this time there seemed to be no such step. eBay assured me all was well, and they had calculated everything needed from the listing.It sold. Usin...

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No Sales April - May

Hope you can give me some advice regarding my ebay selling experience 2025Unfortunately am at a loggerheads! Having sold 1 item sinve the 06/04/2025I never really sell a huge amount of items but was use to selling 1 - 2 or even 3T-shirts a week and c...

"Mark as dispatched" - gone

As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...

simple delivery

I think that everyone who has a problem with this enforced simple delivery should phone ebay and complain to them in person, the more complaints they recieve the more they are likely to do away with this ridiculous concept

HMRC guidance on 'side hustles'

This might help sort out some of the confusion regarding paying tax on ebay sales. https://taxhelpforhustles.campaign.gov.uk/?&utm_source=hmrc_intranet&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sidehustles&utm_content=news https://taxhelpforhustles.campaign.g...

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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 ...

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