Seller News: July 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...
Join us at eBay Open UK 2025!
We are excited to announce the return of eBay Open UK, our annual event crafted for experienced sellers looking to elevate their business. This year, we're gathering at the iconic NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham for a day filled with n...
eBay AI for messages
All I can say is "Oh dear"
Worst Weekend For Sales in 14 Years
With over 1100 listings that were also promoted I sold just 2 items over Saturday and Sunday, this is the worst its ever been in the 14 years of trading on the platform. In comparison I sold 10 x that on Amazon. What has happened to eBay? Its not as ...
EBay official packaging
Every month I get a £10 voucher from eBay to purchase official packaging. I have for the last two times purchased the eBay postal bags. The bags are grouped together in 50’s however one of the bags is then used to bag up the other 49 and sealed, mean...
Resolved! USA Import Tax Threshold Abolished
From Aug 29 this year all shipments will be subject to import tax regardless of value. It used to be $800. I am just wondering if ebay will be charging the appropriate tax to buyers or not as they do with EU shipments.
Returns and Reasons Why - Growing Trend
Is anyone else suffering with frequent return requests with the reason 'Changed My Mind' then nothing is sent back for refund. Is this an attempt at just trying to blag a refund, on the off chance that many sellers just refund on the back of seeing a...
Promoted Listings Changes - You Must Be Joking, eBay
Email from eBay this morning. If I read it correctly, from 24th June, if you use promoted listings and ANYBODY clicks on the ad one time...if the item then sells to ANYBODY ELSE within the next 30 days, you get charged as if the first guy bought it.T...
Click & Drop IOSS Mark Missing from Labels
I have just had a German customer complaining that he had to pay tax, duties and a handling charge to get his order delivered. I have checked and eBay have charged him the VAT at the checkout via IOSS. Upon checking the RM shipping label the IOSS mar...
Resolved! Remind me, what to do with false NAD returns?
Ages since I've had one. One of my items is red dice, and buyer can choose pack size (so 1 ,5 ,10,20 dice etc) Got a NAD return, because he only got 1 dice. And then as an after thought he's tagged on "wrong shade of red" and "poor quality". So the r...
Royal Mail Changes to Second Class Delivery 28th July 2025
Has there been any information from eBay re RM changes from today in that Second Class deliveries will now be every alternate day and no Saturday deliveries. I cannot see any announcements and hope they are going to change the Estimated Delivery Date...
Time Away and Loss of All Shop Access
I'm away and have set up my time away for a month. Whilst away, I'm looking to spend sometime reviewing my listings and making changes. Sadly, once you invoke the time away function your account is effectively invisible, even to you. I am unable to s...
eBay Seller Meet-Up in Manchester 11th September
There's a business seller led, eBay funded, event at eBay Manchester offices in September. Hosted by eBay business sellers for eBay business sellers. Previously sold out and have a few spaces we're opening up to make it a slightly larger session. Its...
Ebay postage labels
Has anyone been able to post today with Royal Mail labels bought through ebay? I bought 13 labels this morning through ebay for Royal Mail 48hr tracked and when I went to the Post Office none of them would work/scan in. The guy at the Post Office ask...
What is the Point of an Ebay Message when Item Does not Sell
Is this something new today? We have always had an email when an auction item didn't sell but from today I am also getting a message in my eBay messages. I really cannot see the point of this.
There is such a thing as "false attribution".
Here's eBay's new way of determining whether a Promoted Listing's sale is due to the Promotion and not merely coincidental: "An attributed sale will be when any buyer purchases the promoted item within 30 days of any click on the ad, regardless of wh...
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