Seller News: May 2025
Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimisation.
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Royal Mail have stopped free collections from home.
I haven’t been doing my postage today for items sold over the weekend and notice that Royal Mail have very sneakily introduced a charge of 30p per parcel for a home collection. Has anyone else noticed this. I must have had my head under a rock for a ...
Cannot sell items to America due to high tariffs.
Hi,I accepted some offers on a range of books last night, but the buyer from America informed me that they were unable to check out and buy them using the GSP.I spoke to an Ebay rep this morning, who informed me that I am unable to sell to the US at ...
eBay estimated delivery dates WRONG
I sold an item the other day on 12th, Royal Mail Tracked 48 P&P and it clearly said post by 13th, but it also says the buyer has been told the item will arrive between 13th and 15th. How on earth does that work out, telling me to post by 13th and als...
Closure
Well this is the end of my eBay account. There has been so many obstacles to selling lately but today out of the blue & one day away from a major payment they say I need to verify the bank account. Now they have been paying into this account for year...
GSP UK to US Costs very expensive
We've been selling for many years and have used the Global Shipping Programme since it started for International Sales. Whilst the shipping costs are sometimes higher the protection we receive as a seller is worth it for us and we still make plenty o...
unable to change from private to business
Hi, I'm trying to change my account from personal to business and it's not allowing me to do it. Managed to change bank account to business one and also managed to add my VAT number, but it's not allowing me to change ebay account to business, when I...
No Sales in March 2025 - What happened to our once best selling platform
We have noticed a sudden decline in sales and since last week we are on Zero. Has anyone else noticed this issue and is this related to any new changes by Ebay. What happened to our once best selling platform.
eBay trying to get business sellers to go for Simple Delivery?
I posted this about half an hour ago on the Seller Central board, but perhaps I should have posted it here. Sorry for duplication. I got an invitation to fill in an eBay survey today, on this account. It was mostly very bland, gobbledegook about all ...
Past couple of days listing views high but sales on the floor
Anyone else had good listing views over the weekend but no sales? Very odd to have fantastic listing views but no one buying? Wondered if there had been any tech issues over the weekend?
Consolidated data from placements in promoted listing advanced
I have been trying to adjust my keywords to improve my ROAC but have come across this. Consolidated data from placements in promoted listing advanced. It is in every different item (17) and is performing really bad. An ROAC of around 1. I would close...
trying to reconcile ebay statement with bank debits
HiI'm looking at all the possible account invoices/statements that I can download from Ebay to give to my accountant but none of them seem to tally with the amount debited by Ebay from me bank account.Where do I find the relevant information?I haven'...
Business seller with Private account eBay doing nothing
I'm fed up with eBay, I pay in excess of £2500 amonth in FVFs and have to compete with this seller who has a professional looking template selling product on a Private account but is clearly a Business seller I have pulled them up to eBay several tim...
Private listings are getting listing sort/order priority, even at 'lowest price' (excl. sponsored)
I recently noticed across a lot of my business listings, private listings are getting listing sort/order priority, even in situations like sorting/filtering by 'lowest price' and them not actually having the lower price. This obviously excludes spons...
Resolved! How many sellers are closing their shops or running down their account in 2024?
We have been a seller on here over a couple of our accounts for many years now. Over this time we have seen a reduction in sales from a max of £13k pcm to £60 pcm. We have been through mass seller culls, more and more control over the seller/buyer re...
ACCEPT OFFER... heads up
Morning all Just a quick heads up - possibly I have missed notifications and everyone knows about this apart from me... Anyhow... I accepted two offers this morning. There was a warning I saw above my 'accept offer' which I barely read the first time...
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