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Simple Delivery and letters - clarification needed please

Is an £4.85 item today going to cost £7.61 soon?An item that is for sale today at £4 + 85p P&P, next week will cost me an additional 91p (or is the % charged on P&P as well?) for buyer fees from the 4th.I’ve heard that Simple Delivery is going to bec...

Buying from Slovakia

260825982251Hi, can someone confirm that the 70 odd US $ that it's showing in my basket (obviously converted to £ by my card provider) is everything that I will have to pay for this item? Sorry but I don't understand vat/duty etc (or eBays woolly exp...

Resolved! Negative feedback

Over the past 3 months I have had issues with sellers getting it wrong so I left negative feedback for them.My issues are ebay has removed both feedbacks with out an valid explanation.So my question is what is the point of the feedback system?Should ...

Item Not Received

I just had a bad ‘Item Not Received' experience and welcome any advice. So, I purchased an item from a private seller on eBay: a jacket, value c. £40.00 (so not a fortune in the scale of life) - order placed 27th June 2025. Evri were the nominated po...

Please Help on how I can change postage option!

Please can someone help. Haven't changed anything on my listings and overnight I can no longer send my items as letter but only large letter! I sell greetings cards and only need to sell letter size and literally kills my margins for small sales. Whe...

Seller refusing to accept returns

I am really, really mad. I recently purchased some yellow crocs via this platform and when I received the item, they were the wrong size. The sizing error was on my part. I contacted the seller to ask if they would accept returns of these crocs. Alth...

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Market Manipulation Common Coins

Hi - This is a topic I talked about a couple years ago and had some response on. It seems to me the problem has got slightly worse with some people making multiple accounts to list common coins with massively inflated values (e.g. £5000 for a basic £...

'promote It ' key inadvertently pressed

Hello folks, A bit of a question to other private sellers ,has anyone else inadvertently pressed the pale blue ' promote it' key that is above all their active listings? I'm a bit paranoid about this now as a number of my listings seem to have upgrad...

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Phone number for Ebay

Hi,I need to get hold of a human (chatbot useless) to sort out a non delivery which Ebay has signed off as a delivery and therefore closed my dispute. Thanks.

POINTLESS 'MAKE OFFER' OPTION BY SELLERS

Don't know if any other post has coveted this subject but why do some sellers bother to list the Make Offer option on a listing when they have no intention of accepting any? Example: I offered just 6% less than the asking price for an item but got re...

Refund for missold item after 6 months

Hi, I bought a UHD/Blu-ray set from the seller back in February & quickly checked it, saw the 2 discs, and only recently went to play it (as is common for me with discs) only to find the UHD had been replaced with a DVD (a DVD wasn't in the original ...

Resolved! Ebay EVRI delivery stole my parcel

I am a seller who has sold thousands of items through ebay over the years, Now since ebay has started issuing their own delivery qr codes, I thought I might as well use them as they're probably even safer. I sent my parcel with the automated EVRI del...

Counterfeit Watches

I purchased a Tag Heuer watch for $1,100, ten days ago and found out that it’s a counterfeit. I reported it to eBay, then filed a dispute with PayPal. I reported the seller’s listing, but, within minutes eBay replied - “We looked into your report and...