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EVRI the worst delivery service I’ve ever experienced

Hi all. I live in a very rural area in Somerset. I have been buying and selling through EBay for several years now and am always impressed with how professional they are, when it comes to lost or miss delivered packages. However since Evri have becom...

offers

Today, I made an offer on an item that had been relisted...all because the seller was daft enough to misplace the item in the first place. When I went to make on offer on said item last year, he accepted the first of three options that eBay had provi...

Resolved! Ebay Promising A Refund They Haven't Sent

Hi, This is the second time this has happened and I'll likely be writing to eBay with an official complaint as this isn't good enough, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any advice or experience with this. I recently purchased a book from Wo...

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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...

Resolved! Pay with balance fail

Is anybody else experiencing issues with Paying from their eBay balance in the app?several times this week I’ve tried on several different purchases and it gets so far then is just hanging… I gave up and used a different method in the endany suggesti...

Buying

7 Feb 2026 purchaseItem ID:206039442072 The Postal address I requested on eBay was not used for delivery of item.EBay used my Billing address for delivery.This caused me (older person) huge anxiety, worry, hassle and expense.This error was made by eB...

Used android device with fake specs

I've recently bought a used Android Tablet off eBay and on receiving and testing it I discovered the advertised specs to be a work of fiction. It was advertised as a 1tb storage device with screenshots of settings screens showing it as running Androi...

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Customs charges from USA

Hican anyone give me an idea how much customs would charge me on an item of clothing from the USA pleasetotal cost including VAT on the sellers page says £115 ($157). would it just be a custom charge on top or is there any more nasty surprises?many t...

Resolved! Simple Delivery

I won & paid for an item evening of 29th Jan (Thurs) & asked seller when they were likely to post as by Monday still not showing as dispatched. Original expectation was from Tuesday 3rd. Item has been sent by simple delivery (Evri) and showed as due ...

Stomach Churning Marketing

I just received an email from Ebay alerting me that someone has placed a bid on an item I was watching. The email starts "An item you love...." Excuse me?!? An item I "love"? It's a rather dull, drab item I was mildly interested in but Ebay has decid...

item location misrepresentation - high import duty

I bought a £40 pair of trousers listed in Harlow UK on 9th January.The tracking information confirms that they were sent from Dubai.UPS called me yesterday to say they have my parcel but I have to pay 65 euros in import duty to release it (I am in Ir...

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