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Royal Mail Tracking not Updating - Ebay

Hi all. Need some advise. Bought an item from ebay on the 1st of December. Seller sent the Item as Royal Mail (RM) Tracked 24 on the 2nd of December and yet to be received. RM lied about a delivery attempt on the 7th of December (I have a ring doorbe...

Proof of age. Neither my husband nor I own a credit card

Neither my husband nor I own a credit card and I want to bid on some cutlery, but as that includes a knife I have been asked to prove my age using a credit card. Is there another way to prove my age? Thanks, Liz

Item Not Received, Ebay Closed Case, PayPal Waiting Game.

PLEASE can somebody help me, I'm at my wits' end! I ordered an item, which was posted by the seller. The item was posted, but the tracking is stagnant. Both eBay and the seller have closed the case. I disputed this with PayPal, they made me wait ten ...

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Resolved! Is Evri killing Ebay?

There are plenty threads with people complaining about Evri, many have replys from happy customers saying " I havn't had a problem with Evri" but if you did then you would find out just what a joke they are.The measure of a company is how they deal w...

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Resolved! Item only partially refunded - WHY?

I bought a very fragile, lightweight glass item, and was charged a lot {£4} for postage and packing.However, when it arrived, I was dismayed to see a feeble packing effort {Bent and torn} and the vintage item was in fragments inside and definitely ha...

Stopping sellers using Evri

I am sure there will be many like me who are bemused how Evri are still in business. I have had delivery after delivery fail or arrive late and nothing gets done because sellers keep using them.I just did a Trust pilot search on Evri UK their one sta...

Detailed Identification

Ebay obviously needs to employ AI. When I ask to search for a Hornby Class 25 Diesel Locomotive ,for example, I don't want to have to trawl through thousands of irrelevant items that also happen to contain the word locomotive or the number 25 or what...

Detiled Descriptions

I find it time wasting,frustrating,annoying and frankly a nonsense that having spent many hours trawling through any category of items for sale I maybe interested in that the next day I have to do it all again because Newly Listed items can appear an...

Negative feedback

Normally I avoid sellers with low feedback but I ordered from one because he had 100% positive score. It turned out to be a total waste of time. He generated a tracking number but didn't send my order. After 5 days Evri still hadn't received the orde...

Length of time for despatch

Hi folks.Why does it take 10 days or longer to despatch an item that can easily be put in an envelope from an address in the UK ,I can't prove it but I've got a feeling certain sellers are taking orders then ordering from China then despatching the i...

New scam on eBay

I bought an iPhone on eBay and received an alert stating that the item would be delivered the next day. The next day, I received another alert to confirm that it had been delivered. I was at home all day, and I never received anything. I called Royal...

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Very slow delivery times since the changes on Feb 4th.

Anyone else noticing this?...before the changes were brought in i'd order something and it would be on my doorstep within 2-5 days max...now seem to be waiting well over a week for pretty much everything. Are sellers thinking "soddit,if i've got to w...

negative feedback removed

I rebenmtly left negative feedback for a seller. The basics are I ordered a phone, realised the 2 week delivery window would have missed the birthday I had bought it for and requested to cancel this after 2 minutes. 24 hours later they refused and se...

Item not received,Evri lost parcel

Purchased a item on 6/12/25. Item not received.Contact seller,Seller replied she will contact Evri.Seller sent a message to advise that Evri will ring me.Strange, Evri ring Ebay customers.Seller's comms have been poor.After contacting Evri,they have ...

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