UK Seller News: April 2025
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Informing a Buyer that their offer was less than Postage - DEFAMATION ?.
I recently received an offer on a listed item which was less than the cost of postage. I counter offered with a price which was less than £1 above postage cost. The item was listed at £5 ,it was less than 1 year old and had cost £80. When the buyer d...
NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY
AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.
Resolved! Simple Delivery
Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage
Possible way around Simple Delivery....
This is posted from my Business eBay account, but relates to my Personal Account. So, this morning I spoke with Customer Services about the fact that eBay had changed my listings to allow Evri delivery to be chosen by the buyer, despite it being a 15...
Sneaky fees banned in the UK from today
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/06/uk-bans-22bn-sneaky-fees-and-fake-reviews-for-online-products The CMA are in charge of the crackdown Fingers crossed. We may have some light at the end of the tunnel now.
Postage Refund under Simple Delivery - How Does it Work
I sold an item 10 days ago on my other account. I purchased the postage from eBay however when the label printed the weight was 0g so I had to request to cancel and purchase another label with the correct weight on. Since SD has been introduced does ...
Bladed items
Think Ebay are just annoying members now for the sake of it. Bearing in mind I don't list bladed items! I have just received an email from Ebay, posted part of it below:Since you’re listing bladed items on ebay, we’re writing to let you know about so...
DNA Magazine
I am going to list a few items one of which is DNA Magazine No. 129. I generally check what similar items have been sold or are up for sale and to my amazement I have found the same magazine actually SOLD for USD$2000! Whilst I would love to think th...
Scammed by a vintage dealer, payment dispute when known to have sold
Hi I've had a really negative experience and am not sure what to do about it. I sold 3 items (really nice vintage homeware items) to a dealer and reduced the price for him and posted together using signed for RM. I have proof of receipt. I follow him...
Simple Delivery Exceptions size still not clarified
Yesterday's update from Eve Williams, General Manager, eBay UK says"Items which can still use untracked service: There are a few categories of items where we’ll still permit untracked services if that’s your preference. This includes letter-sized ite...
Interesting .........
I don't buy much on ebay any longer, but do keep a weather eye on one sub-category in particular. I've been paying somewhat closer attention to it this past week and noted the number of UK listings appears to have halved. I know this can be difficult...
Reporting a Buyer is too limited
After 22 years (and on top of the recent eBay bombs) I've just been scammed for the first time. I do realise I've been very lucky so far but I also now realise there's no way of complaining about it.I sold a genuine Sony battery pack to a buyer who'd...
Had Enough
Well after 24 years and having a Business account and a private account I've finally had enough. I Started back in 2001 when most people didn't even know what Ebay was! I used to go to the auctions allot back then until Ebay killed off most of them, ...
Business Policies
Are eBay playing with business policies in accounts? Reason for asking is, I went to change postage costs on a few items this afternoon in prearation for RM price increases. These are items which will be excluded from SD (under 100g and under £10 val...
Thread for sellers' experiences of Simple Delivery and if only their chosen carrier is actually used
Yes, I know there are a lot of Simple Delivery threads but I imagine this one will be helpful for others too. I'm holding off listing any more items and taking existing ones down tomorrow as there's no way that I want to use Evri. I asked earlier thi...
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