Seller News: August 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...
Buyer problem
Sold an item recently, had to use my own courier as a little overweight, buyer complained about missing parts but not to my knowledge. However offered 25% reduction, heard nothing from buyer, eBay stepped in giving the buyer a refund and the item I w...
Sales to USA after August 29th - Tariffs / End of de minimis
I asked about this in the weekly chat, specifically whether ebay are alerting US buyers to the fact that they will shortly have to pay duty on anything delivered from outside the US and marco@ebay helpfully later posted this link showing that there i...
Simple delivery and Royal Mail's Bring my Label collection service.
So simple delivery does not offer Royal Mail's bring my label service. When buying a parcel collection Royal Mail give the option of bringing you the label as well so there is no need to print anything. Simple delivery has taken away the Royal Mail b...
Resolved! Simple Delivery more expensive for letters & large letters
With custom postage being rolled out and eventually the only option, I am a little confused and trying to clarify something please. If I am posting something of large letter size, less than 100 grams and low value - a DVD in it's case for example, I ...
US Tariff Chaos - Can Ebay Help Sellers
Good Morning All, Just logging the worry that the chaos caused by US Tariff confusion poses a huge risk to sellers and the platform as a whole. The current Royal Mail cessation of shipping to America continues and there is no clear info as when they ...
Any reason for a business seller to choose 1st/2nd class for parcels over tracked 24/48?
The seller charges for delivery so its no extra cost to them I bought an item for £100 and they sent it via 2nd class. I asked why they use 2nd class as lack of tracking is worse for customers, £20 max insurance could leave them out of pocket and its...
Has anyone sold to the US through the Global Shipping Programme in the last few days?
It does seem to be active with items showing up on ebay.com - just wondering if eBay are charging buyers the relevant tariffs.
Simple Delivery is a joke.
I am a private seller and I sell stuff usually ranging fro 2kg to 15kg weight. These can be heavy or bulk and what surprises me is that when I drop them off at an Evri shop the staff keep asking me the weight. They tell me that couriers complain abou...
Resolved! US Tariffs - Royal Mail online service now requesting email & phone number of buyer
I have held 3 items for the US until now and all 3 customers were understanding. I decided to check out the new procedure on the RM website to compare with the post office counter as they had no idea about the new system!I've noticed that they are no...
Resolved! Am I right that Simple Delivery cannot combine postage for multiple purchases?
Hi, I have not sold anything since last summer, but I want to re-home a few model railway engines. It is quite likely that the same buyer might want more than one. I have just found out about this Simple Delivery system and have been reading all the ...
Problem with track48 serial YA Royal Mail
I bought a track48 label through eBay and this morning a nice lady at the Post Office said that track48 with the YA number is not accepted and that I should contact the seller. does anyone have a similar problem? did ebay uk sell me a fake label?
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.
Seller Hub - New Banner
Is anyone else finding that the new banner with your ebay balance, listing views, sales and orders a real pain?I now have to slide down the page in order to get to the old style seller hub which actually contains the tabs I want. I guess that I am op...
Resolved! No Sales in 12 Days. Why!!!
12 Days no sales with 600+ listings and all promoted. Help!!!
Evri lost item -simple is not simple
Hi All good people.I have enough... I have sold an item around 18th of August. Posted on the 20th and from 21st (on that day buyer changes home delivery to parcel shop) parcel hasn't moved. We have been waiting, I have escalated it further to evri - ...
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