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...
How do returns work when sent to buyer via ebay's global shipping
Good morning We sell overseas via eBay's global shipping programme. We have never had a return request before. However, we have had two return requests in one week now, one being a key that costs £9.00 (they ordered the wrong key number for their out...
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 ...
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! Getting sick of sellers advertising items for a false price.
sellers advertising items at a shown price, then as soon as you choose a colour or size the price shoots up. And theres nothing in the drop down for price advertised. This is false info, good to attract buyers but a waste of buyers time. if they are ...
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?
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