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! Changing tracking number after YA fiasco
I had an SD item rejected at my local PO (as did many other sellers). I re-sent the item by normal service and submitted a claim for the lost SD postage. However when I tried to update the order with the new tracking number there was no option to Edi...
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...
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!
Simple Delivery
Hi, I would like to use Simple Delivery for all my items. However the option is not available for ladies hats, belts and handbags or men’s hats? Does anyone know when Simple Delivery will be added to these categories?
Has Custom Postage Now Gone ?
Please can someone offer some advice.I've read that we can opt out of the Simple Delivery and still use Custom postage but I cant see the Custom Postage option anymore when adding a listing ?I've tried this on new listings, revising a listing, listin...
Special Delivery with £1000 insurance
Hi All Earlier this week I posted a high value Pokemon item and paid for the appropriate level of compensation via Royal Mail Special Delivery. The following day my parcel was successfully delivered and an image of the parcel including GPS coordinate...
Flurry of sales sort of
It’s probably nothing but after having one sale a month or so for months on end I got five in last few days and I wondered what’s going on ? admittedly I promoted a few of them but not all but I’d promoted others before and nothing happened so I’m go...
Chosen Evri as only preferred courier but still getting Royal Mail prepaid labels, how to fix ?
In postage preference, Evri is set as only courier option. While creating listing it clearly shows Evri prepaid label will be provided but once item is sold, ebay keeps generating Royal Mail label instead of Evri. Any idea or suggestions how to fix t...
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 ...
PRIVATE SELLERS NOT WANTED ON EBAY
The new regulations on ebay to arrive in February just prove that they are trying to convert Private Sellers to Business sellers. Buyers will noe have to pay ebay for expensive postal and courier rates which I know that I can get cheaper through Roya...
Resolved! Parcel too large for simple postage
Hi, I am trying to list a new item on eBay and this new simple postage option is causing some problems. The parcel will be slightly too large for the largest option available to me and there's other options.Royal Mail are very strict with size and we...
Refunds
Why do eBay take a refund from you - when the buyer has not paid yet - but requested the refund as ordered by mistake.Then ebay take out of your funds.No payment has gone through as of yet - except the payment from my funds for a mistake someone has ...
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.
EBay Policy Violation: counterfeit item policy
I get so frustrated with eBay these days as there is nobody to talk to on the phone, although, from past experience, customer service is not much use anyway.I have had a listing suspended due to an apparent policy violation of the counterfeit items p...
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 .......
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