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...
How do you report a private seller who can be proved to be a running business website?
Can someone tell me how you report a private seller wjo is running a business with a website? This business has 1500 items running and has sold over 3000 items. Their items on ebay lare the same as the ones on their business website. Some of thir lis...
Resolved! Another private seller acting as a business
I sell chokers so decided to have a look to see what others are selling for apparently one woman on here - I saw how many brand new items she has up which includes dresses, jewellery, baby cots anything and everything she has well over 2000 on a priv...
Item being returned used
Hi all, I sell specialist seeds online and have been selling on ebay for 25 years through think and thin! As you can imagine I occasionally get customers saying the seeds didnt grow etc - I usually refund these customers or replace - no problem at al...
Resolved! Time to quit eBay? Biz fees too much!
Hello all, Ive been a long time user of eBay but I’ve just had enough of the fees, not to mention to mention my regular and consistent flow of sales dropping off a cliff since raising prices to cover fees. Is eBay not the right marketplace to sell my...
Sending to the USA is about to become a poop show
Luckily we use GSP for all orders going overseas for our ebay sales but obviously not for our direct site sales.Just got the notification from Royal Mail that as of Aug 29th you wont be able to send into the USA using DAP (delivered at place where th...
Negative feedback for blocking someone from buying in the future?
Someone started an item not received request because their RM Second Class order did not arrive with them on the third day after dispatch. I think it's unreasonable to do this when RM frequently take longer than they say they will to deliver. I apolo...
UK households say 'cloak and dagger' as Royal Mail issues post warning
Another INR opened this morning!ebay are still telling my buyers 2-3 days and even delivery on a SaturdayIts a disgrace treating their buyers like this... The Royal Mail has warned UK households that they may not receive post for several days Royal M...
Asked to provide my NI number.
I received an email today requesting that I update my account and provide my National Insurance number, as I have reached the threshold for either items sold or the selling limit.My question is this.. I am simply selling some personal items that have...
Daily Deals
How does a seller become elegible to appear on the daily deals tab?
Sales Are Down to ZERO or Slow Jun 2025 -EBay Help!
Hello everyone, how are you doing? There has been a downward trend in our sales from start of June 2025. Now end of June and we are now looking at Zero sales per day. I see many sellers are facing slow sales right now—it’s really difficult, especiall...
Invisible Listings
Hi, (DISCLAIMER: I'm posting this on an alternative account). I just opened my business account (finally!) and got it all set up. The only problem is, my listings are invisible! They ARE active, I can view them, a direct link works for them (for me a...
New Payout Rules for Business Accounts
I have business account and Ebay in their infinite wisdom, have changed the way I'm paid out to 3 days after delivery has been confirmed. Apparently this is being rolled out to everyone via email. Anyone else experienced this?
Item return
I've been selling on Ebay for many years but have never had a buyer refuse to accept a full replacement of an item that he wanted to return citing the "does not meet description " excuse when in fact the item exactly met the description , being that ...
Promotional Fee Percentage - General Ad Campaign
Hi Everyone, I just wanted to get peoples thoughts on promotional % for the general campaign. What sort of fixed rate % are people using at the moment? I've been using between 5-10% over the past few months as a business seller selling Pre-Loved clot...
"Required item specifics" are all blank
I just went to change a few prices and have noticed that most of my items have the required item specifics blank. It has done this before in the past and I don't want to waste a whole load of time checking them all again. Has anyone else noticed this...
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