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...
Global Shipping delay meant buyer opened a case & got refunded
I’m just a personal seller so don’t deal with lots of selling and very rare overseas so don’t know how the process works. I sold an item through the Global Shipping Programme and sent to their centre via Royal Mail. I had no indication of any problem...
6th August
So 6th August is when everything is supposed to switch to Simple Delivery, even existing listings. Not sure how that will work because I don't have dimensions or weights listed for any of my items. It will also be the day I take down my listings if i...
Ebay simple delivery opt out
So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......
Late delivery defects / royal mail not scanning
Hello We have recently had a barrage of late delivery defects taking us up to 4%, resulting in us being due to loose our top rated status this month. We have recently switched to Royal Mail as our default courier, but it appears they are regularly no...
ebay playing silly games with categories to stop Custom Postage opt-out and force Simple Delivery?
The published link for Simple Delivery opt-out is below. This implies that if the value is under a tenner and large letter is used, there are lots of categories where it applies, but in reality, I have only been able to get Custom Postage to pop up a...
Sellers think it alright to offer second class only or.....
In the context of small items that are typically disc based movies, just what kind of sellers think it acceptable to offer R-M 2Nd class even when I make it clear that I wish to pay the exyta for R-M 48 hour tracked? I live about an hour south of Bir...
Simple Delivery not offering Collect from home
After being forced to use Simple Delivery I now find that there is no option to have my parcel collected from home. I am using Royal Mail who have always offered this option. On the Simple Delivery help page it says this IS an option but it did not a...
Resolved! how do you list anything bigger than 61cm?
Ebay is now forcing me into SD with no custom delivery option The largest postage offered under SD is 61cm There seems to be no way to list anything over 61cm and get the correct postage, even if you declare the dimensions in the listing height, widt...
Sellers Unite Against Simple Delivery
WE MUST FORCE THEM TO ABANDON THIS STUPID, DANGEROUS, RIDICULOUS SYSTEM! I REFUSE TO SELL UNTIL THEY REMOVE IT. THEY ARE DOING IT TO FORCE US INTO MAKING A BUSINESS ACCOUNT! THEY ARE IN THE GOVERNMENTS POCKET! FROM THEIR OWN SUPPORT!
I've not sold anything since the introduction of Simple Delivery
I have tried to resist selling due to all these unnecessary changes, but after some recent costs, I have some items to sell, but I find it all so confusing now. I just want to send low-cost items via first- or second-class RM postage and higher-price...
How do you list anything bigger than 61cm? Part two.
Haven't had much time on this yet but first attempts with this new listing format today is like this to get back to your own carrier who will take your large/small items, (preview works, not tested with listing): Still start with over £750 - £800 is ...
Postage error query?
So I have just bought two postage labels through Ebay for Large letter up to 100g, cost £1.55. Cost for P&P was listed as £2.35 and this is what the buyer paid. However Ebay has deducted £3.35 from my order earnings. I have realised that when setting...
Sellers - Stop using 'AI' nonsense for descriptions, you are losing sales....
It might seem an easy option but I won't buy from sellers who use the lazy option for descriptions, it's sometimes completely wrong or just nonsense and does not tell me want I want to know to make a buying descision so I don't. I want real descripti...
Listing form updated to allow you to set price including BPF
I noticed this positive development today in the listing form - there are now two form fields to allow you to set the amount you want to receive OR the price the buyer sees including BPF: If you try and set some prices it will round it down, for exam...
R.I.P EBay Well done congratulations on destroying a once great idea.
I thought I would just congratulate EBay on totally destroying their selling platform for basic private sellers coming on here to sell odd items and also buy. When they went of down the route of self destruction I wanted no part of their ridiculous c...
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