Seller News: October 2025
Read the latest updates to streamline your selling experience.
Forum Posts
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 Programme Enabled but Buyers Abroad Cannot Purchase – Urgent Issue Costing Sales
Hi eBay team,I’m writing to report a serious issue that’s severely affecting my ability to sell internationally.Despite being fully opted into the Global Shipping Programme (GSP) and having it enabled on all my listings (see attached screenshot), int...
Resolved! Have suspended all sales due to Simple Delivery - Absolute Joke of a policy!
What a god awful system this is and as such Ive suspended all of my listings as Simple Delivery simply does not work for my business The vast majority of my items are small car parts which fit into letter envelopes, SImple delivery has increased cost...
Downward Trend in Sales- October 2025
Hello everyone, how are you doing? There has been a downward trend in our sales from start of last week . We have a business account and everything has been normal up unitil last week. We are slowly going away from ebay platform due to fees structure...
eBay Transaction Losses Up 19% In Q3, Mostly Due To Simple Delivery Claims
Interesting stat from the Q3 earnings call for those who missed it - Transaction Losses spiked a significant 19% year over year with CFO Peggy Alford telling investors it was mostly due to increased consumer protection costs of Simple Delivery, ie. p...
Is jewellery now included in Simple Delivery?
Up until today I understood that the jewellery category was excluded from Simple Delivery. But tonight I tried to list a silver brooch and I am only being offered Simple Delivery - no custom option. I tried on the app and on the desktop. I tried list...
Resolved! Your Account Is Under Review
The dreaded email we all worry about. Not entirely sure what i'm meant to have done. 99.8% top seller. All fees paid, all tax documents correct, all contact info correct etc. The only thing I think it might be is someone who didn't receive her orders...
email addresses for packages being sent to the United States
Since the imposition of US tariffs Sellers are now required to include the email address of the Buyer within the Customs Declaration/ Address label on every package. As the Carrier or Postal Service is responsible for collecting the duty, they must c...
I have a selling account, had it for 20 years, ..eBay now want Photo ID?
Had an selling account for 20 years (this isnt it) I'm a UK seller, haven't sold a great deal, feedback is still under 1000, last year after about a year of not using the account I started to sell again, not a lot but eBay first treated me like I had...
Your payouts are on hold until you update your account details.
My bank account hasn't changed at all, I have had no problems receiving previous payments but eBay has decided to reverify and put a hold on my payouts? I have clicked on the red banner to "update" my bank account with the same details. It wants me t...
Reasonable postage cost - Average Rating low despite using Simple Delivery
I use Simple Delivery for 99% of my sales, free postage for the other 1% but my average rating shows 4.8 for "Reasonable postage cost" How can it be fair for me to be penalised for a postage rate I have no control over. Anyone suffer similarly and ha...
Royal Mail collection vs QR code?
I've used the RM free collection option on EBay, but for the umpteen time RM postie has failed to collect. The problem is...How do you get a QR code so you can take the uncollected parcel to the nearest Post Office for them to print the label? AFAICT...
Where have the Buyers gone?
Where is everyone? Sales have dropped drastically sine the introduction of this new buyer fee tax and I find this really depressing to be honest.This site is turning into a digital Graveyard, no actually there's more life in a Graveyard than on Ebay ...
Where have all the buyers gone?
Maybe its just me and lots (stamps) I put on but I am finding it a lot more difficult getting anybody to place a bid never mind buy anything. What's happened to all those millions of buyers that are out there? it was never like this before.Do you thi...
e-bike resale blocked
H, I bought an e-bike second from eBay a few months ago - its great, but my daughter can't use it.I just tried to resell it and apparently I'm now blocked from doing so.When did this come into being?Hope you can help
Resolved! EVRI
I used EVRI collect a parcel to deliver to a buyer for the first time. Two days after the courier collected the parcel from me, I had a message from the buyer saying they hadn't received the package. They live 336 miles away from me. Three days in, a...
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