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...
Resolved! Simple Delivery - Not simple
I have had to cancel 2 orders recently because of Simple Delivery issues. In the first instance the buyer purchased 2 items after I agreed a discount with them. Unfortunately they didn't combine the items in their basket. This meant I had to pay for ...
Royal Mail Sunday deliveries
Today and last Sunday I have had a parcel delivered! According to the postie they have new contracts and Sunday working is part of the working week now ( not overtime ).Is this happening elsewhere in the country? I haven't seen this announced anywher...
Resolved! NO LONGER ALLOWED TO POST ANYTHING OVER 61CM LONG- WHY EBAY?
NO LONGER ALLOWED TO POST ANYTHING OVER 61CM LONG- WHY EBAY?just got off the phone to customer service agent-the powers be have now removed custom posting and although evri, a designated ebay sd courier, allow a max of 120cm, ebay say no. this will c...
Sick of simple Delivery ,
Just sold a bikini top , for a couple of pounds , buyer messaged me can i post ASAP as they are going away on Thursday , ebay have given estimated delivery Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st , for standard and express , crazy , EB have instructed me to Po...
Hi, does Simple Delivery small parcel rate work for poster tubes?
Hi, have a poster which I have sold. Originally listing had adequate poster postage amount but Simple Delivery overtook the listing and now I cannot change it. Does SD small parcel rate for Royal Mail allow for poster tubes as they seem to fall outsi...
Anyone else being overcharged for Simple Delivery postage?
We choose Simple Delivery, seller pays shipping, select the correct postage, which is £2.72 (even though most of the time we should be sending it for approx 87p ) And then when the item sells we see we have been charged £3.38. This happened with rand...
Nightmare Simple Delivery if you don't have a printer
You can't opt out of Simple Delivery after 15 April so I don't know what to do. I always have Royal Mail not only collect my sales, but also to print my label. However, if eBay have automatically deducted the label cost, I'd have to pay for postage a...
Complaints about Evri, please stop using them, they may be cheap but they don't deliver
There are highs and lows for many delivery companies. Sometimes, we, as a business find one is ok for a period and then we have to move to another. Staff seems to be the key, rather unsurprisingly but we keep our options open and on many days use mul...
Postage options arent there
I don't understand why ebay thinks its acceptable to just put under postage standard delivery and express delivery as a buyer shouldn't we be able to choose what service we want delivering to us!! It isn't difficult is should say royal mail or evri i...
eBay trying their hardest to put people off Rant!
Is it just me or is eBay trying their utter most best to try and put sellers off using eBay?It was simple when we paid fees on sold items or shop fees, now they've changed to 'buyer protection fees' I never know where I am with fees or offers, there ...
Parcel Force and Royal mail recent delivery issues
Hi everyone I just wondered if anyone, either seller or buyer, who has sent/bought an item recently that was shipped via parcel force? I recently sold a large item, so it had to go parcel force. It was due to be delivered monday 11th, but my buyer st...
Resolved! Simple Delivery rip-off
Simple Delivery is now the default setting but it is possible to opt out of Simple Delivery by selecting "Switch to Advance Options". Why is Ebay pushing this? Simple, Ebay gets a discount on the postage and creams off some of the cost the buyer pays...
Postage Preferences Courier EVRI ONLY SELECTED - but item has sold with Royal Mail?
Hi everyone. I am new to selling on EBAY and have just sold my first item. I'm aware of all the "Simple Delivery" nonsense EBAY have introduced lately... Since I don't have a Phone for the QR code (at least not personally - my brother has, but I don'...
Buyer selected a different (more expensive!) shipping options
I sold a very inexpensive item. I set the shipping option. They buyer paid the tiny bid amount and the shipping option I selected. But they were able to select a DIFFERENT shipping option which costs more -- so now if I ship I'm actually out of pocke...
eBay postage
eBay is now changing postage of items listed months ago, and getting the postage wrong.There is a reason choose Royal mail over Evri for posting certain items.I suggest sellers look at the number and type of items for which you cannot get insurance f...
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