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Seller News: May 2025

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'Simple Delivery' failed, now a test case - worried

Private Seller here, I sold a gold sovereign for £590 on ebay and was forced to use "Simple Delivery" as you all know. Both ebay and RM tracking show it as delivered, RM say they left it in a safe place and uploaded a photo. Seller says package has g...

Ebay withholding payouts

At the end of April 2025 my debit card expired. I updated it and noted on 2nd May Ebay put 1p into my account as part of their verification process.Since then Ebay has taken no further action to verify my account. After talking to various Ebay CSRs t...

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Resolved! Global Shipping Program USA to UK - Not working US seems to have been taken away this morning

Hey all, This morning I've had several customers contact me from the US saying that even though they are watching my items, and could purchase them yesterday through the GSP they can no longer do this and all my other items that they are not watching...

Resolved! EBay asking for national insurance number

Hi everyone, I recently joined for like 1 month and I start selling as a private seller , and now eBay is asking me to provide national insurance number."New UK digital sales reporting legislation requires sellers with 30 or more sales, or who have s...

Simple delivery is awful

I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...

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Resolved! 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.

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Buyer does not recognise transaction

How can it possibly be fair that you have to reimburse a buyer after an order has been shipped and then they put in a chargeback and claim they dont recognise the transaction. Item just under a tenner so no tracking. So I get to lose the items and th...

Updates to eBay’s Promoted Listings programme

I'd love to see how eBay can justify this changed to "promoted listings". (In an email received a few minutes ago.) In future, if anyone ever clicks on a promoted listing, the promoted fee will be charged, even if the actual buyer did not find it thr...

Buyer's address is an Esso Station. Hasn't received parcel.

Hi. A buyer hasn't received their parcel and opened a case against me. Their delivery address is an Esso petrol station. Evri have marked the parcel as delivered and provided photographic proof of delivery, which the buyer has confirmed is at the cor...

Resolved! Simple delivery, Royal Mail - where can I specify Collection?

Another Simple Delivery query... I can specify my courier as Royal Mail.I can - with some tinkering - specify the postage rate.I can't see where to specify Royal Mail collection.This means I have to go to town to drop off my parcel.Can anyone advise ...

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New Buyer Fee = Good News For Private Sellers!

Now that ebay are adding this extra fee maybe they will actually allow private sellers to sell!Now that the buyer has to pay a buyers premium, ebay will be making money off the private seller from the sales!The more ebay push private sellers to reach...

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