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...
Postage
Hi. Any help would be appreciated.I sell a reasonable amount of items on a daily basis - around 40 a day, but they are usually low value (£5 - £8 per item). I presently send by 2nd class large letter for the majority of the orders and use a franking ...
Resolved! Packlink parcels
I paid for postage through packlink and sent it on the 30th aug, it's been successfully delivered on the 2nd sept. I've now (15th sept) received an email of packlink stating that I had extra charges for incorrect size/weight. It seems odd that I woul...
travel around carrying the large parcel over London to find a drop-of–point that works
I have repeated aired my frustration over the postage issues but nobody is listening. I have wasted my whole morning carrying the large parcel over London only to return home with the parcel without any success. The failing is that the equipments not...
Buyer says re delivered item has gone missing?
I’m a bit puzzled on this one.i sold some meta raybans and posted the same day the buyer paid 28th July. Then a couple of days later the buyer raises a “item not received” complaint to eBay saying the item is being returned as it wouldn’t arrive in t...
GSP shipping to Israel
I had an issue with an item after a seller sent an item through global shipping. The item was returned to him. Following a query ebay told him they don't ship to Israel ATM. Is it true? The seller just posted the item back on sale, I can see a shippi...
Why does it take so long for a purchase to arrive or for a sold item to reach the buyer?
Not a fan of this new Ebay shipping program. When I sell an item, usually a 45 record, It arrives through the buyers letterbox the day after payment is made, that`s a big part of my 100% positive feedback. With this idiotic system it took 11 days to ...
Resolved! Royal Mail Simple Delivery
Have all your Saturday parcels had their tracking status updated already?I’ve got just one left that still shows as “Label created – we’re expecting it.”Does anyone else still have a parcel stuck like that? Of course, I’ll wait a few more days and as...
Simple Delivery - how to avoid/opt out?
want the option to post my item myself instead of simply delivery, there is no option of opt out, so i can post myself ! if there is any ebay representives out there can you please tell us how do we opt out of simply delivery as i tried for hours wit...
EBay Simple Postage Costs
As A Private Seller, I have just listed an item and I am now being charged £3.94 using Royal Mail by eBay to post an item that costs £3.45 with Royal Mail. No way out of this. Feel like removing free postage and charging the buyer knowing it won't se...
Unable to generate a label for an item i sold
I’ve sold about 8-9 items to different sellers and i’m unable to generate a label for any of them coming up with this error tried refreshing the page a few times or trying on laptop and phone but it’s not making a difference. Currently it’s one label...
Private sellers are forced to use Simple Delivery even the items are less than £10
Starting this week, my private account can no longer choose Royal Mail or any custom delivery option when listing or revising items — only Simple Delivery is forced, even though all of my items are under 100 grams and worth less than £10. Anyone else...
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...
Royal Mail Tracking Issue
Does anyone know if RM are having troubles with their tracking app?A delivery scheduled for yesterday on the app didn't arrive and it is still showing the same information that was there yesterday morning at 0549hrs.Another delivery due has the same ...
Royal Mail Click & Drop - Now you can merge eBay orders directly in C&D
One thing that was very much an inconvenience when switching to a Royal Mail business account for eBay sales, was the inability to merge orders from repeat buyers. I offer free postage on all my listings so it was a daily occurrence to have the same ...
In praise of Simple Delivery
Never thought I would say this BUT-Simple Delivery saved me a load of grief!! Sold a quite high value item-buyer chose Evri. Now we ALL know how useless Evri are-must have lost about 5 of my items previously and all you can get is a Chatbot and an ar...
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