UK Seller News: April 2025
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Resolved! direct postage
I am selling small jewellery items as a private seller and specifying a postage amount when listing. Then when dispatching I am using large letter postage stamps purchased from Royal Mail. Can I still do this? if so, what do I need to do at the listi...
Simple Delivery screw up already.. watch out for this clanger!!!!!
So I just Purchased a medal on the 5th April 2025 from a seller costing me £100. Seller quickly packed it and used Simple delivery process and sent me the Royal Mail Tracking number on the Simple Delivery Label.I checked on the 7th April 2025 the Roy...
Resolved! Global Shipping Program Not Working
I've been trying to buy some things from UK sellers. When browsing, I can see the shipping costs. Inside the listing, it just tells me to contact the seller for shipping costs. It is also impossible to buy, when clicking Buy It Now it just says: item...
Resolved! Ebay stop ramming Simple Delivery down our throats! If we aren't interested stop forcing it!
So I ended all my listings. Disabled Simple Delivery... and set them all to Custom Delivery. I dont own a smartphone, I dont wish to use a QR code, I dont own a printer. I write my envelopes and take them in person to my local village post office. Au...
SIMPLE DELIVERY
Whoever devised Simple Delivery is obviously not an Ebay seller!! The whole scheme is absurd!! I'm hoping that thousands of people, if not millions!!, will email Ebay to say that until the Simple Delivery system is abandoned then they will not be lis...
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...
Explain Simple Delivery Prices someone please!
The item is worth £12.99 and would fit in a Royal Mail small 35x30x16 box. 2nd class postage is £3.35. EBay is telling me buyer will pay a postage price STARTING at £6.29. Why on earth would buyers pay £6.29 to have it shipped? Those that notice the ...
POSTAGE
My son has just been to send his first parcel from simple delivery with Evri at a Tesco express but they haven't got labels for the postage labels so that was no good ,he only was given evri as the choice of postage not royal mail .The guy in the sho...
I returned an item to an unoccupied house
I recently bought a laptop that wasn't accurately described, it had a loose lid that wasn't mentioned in the description. So although the seller listed as no returns accepted, I returned it as it wasn't as described. After I posted it, I was asked by...
Postage Label size
Hi, I have started buying postage through Ebay but my problem is the Label size that prints. They are tiny and too small for my packaging. Is there anyone who could simplify how I can make them bigger as I cannot find any help anywhere thanks
Buyer refused to pay customs and gets a refund?
Hi all! I sold a football shirt bundle to Germany last month (from the UK) and once it arrived at customs, the buyer tried pulling out of the deal because I wasn’t paying the €180 charge. I informed him that it was his responsibility to pay customs a...
Royal Mail Surcharge Rip-off
I just received an email from Royal Mail and am shocked about their excessive surcharges. They are getting more desperate and bringing in excessive fees. There is no alternative to the Royal Mail Large Letter service, and I have to continue to use it...
Buyer received item but tracking not scanned or updated. Funds on hold
Hi I’m hoping somebody can help. I dispatched 2 of the same items to the same buyer at the same time. Both parcels were successfully delivered and the buyer has messaged me to let me know they received both. The problem is one parcel was tracked and ...
New postage system and drop & go
Is it possible to disable the new postage system and remain as it’s always been?Also, does anyone have any advice on how Drop & Go would work under the new system? Many thanks
Freepost & HMRC
I’ve seen many posts regarding HMRC reporting etc which to be honest doesn’t effect me at the moment however I will be selling items that cost more to post than the items are worth.One thing I have noticed is the number of sellers going away from fre...
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