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...
advertising products as UK stock that are coming from China
why are ebay not taking strict action on sellers that are clearly drop-shipping from china and advertising "UK stock" but they are being delivered from China !Something that should arrive in 2-3 days if its was actually from the UK, not 2 weeks !
Resolved! Sorry simple delivery issue again
Oh please help before I really lose my temper!Been trying to list a Halloween picture which is....yes you guessed it....bigger than simple delivery allows.I have spent hours reading theough posts and Googling the issue....varying ways of sorting it, ...
Started returns process only for ebay to refund the buyer without providing a label for returning
Firstly, where has the returns section gone? I posted this in that section earlier, but it has gone? I sold two similar items, but stupidly put the wrong label on each box, so the buyer needs to make a return. They both intiated the returns process, ...
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.
Simple Delivery now optional for items under £20 including Large Letter
New email just received says: We’ve listened to your feedback and made Simple Delivery optional for more items priced £20 or less. This includes items in categories like Trading cards, Coins and Stamps, which are typically letter or large letter-size...
How do I resolve this issue of a partial refund
The seller told me she hadn't sold anything on ebay for years and said it was an honest mistake. She has only refunded my postage so it's showing as a refund. Which if course it was, but it wasn't the entire refund. It was just the postage. Now the s...
Is the Global Shipping Programme no longer available for private sellers?
I'm trying to schedule some items for auction - I haven't done this for a while as I was waiting to see whether the Simple Delivery stuff worked or not. If I view my scheduled items and pretend to be from another country, instead of seeing a shipping...
Why is SD still mandatory when eBay said it isn't for <£20?
Colour me stupid but when eBay emailed to say they'd stopped Stupid Delivery being mandatory for items less than £20, I believed them. I tried to list one of the few items I haven't simply given away & L0! ONLY SD is available. Can anyone provide a c...
Why aren't my items getting views, etc?
As above, selling decent Dickies hoody, gametime hip hop jeans(sell well from U.S) Stronghold Plaid shirt(one went for more!) other sellers same items are selling on site as well. I have even promoted the jeans, Just about to put a carhartt t shirt o...
A 'Petition'
In one particular thread about 'Simple Delivery' which I've been active in over the past few days, the suggestion has been made that someone - ie., me, an eBay member of 25 years - should start a petition.With seemingly thousands of posts in numerous...
No longer an option to switch to Custom Postage
I like to post everything via Royal Mail's site, and pay for postage via paypal. I sold an item at the weekend, and when I went to sort out delivery, the delivery type had changed to Simple Delivery with no way to change to Custom Postage. I checked ...
Resolved! HMRC tax on £1000 sales
Does the £1000 p.a. sales figure include postage? I sell low value items & the postage is usually higher than the value of the item. On £1000 sales i'd be lucky to make £200 profit. Seems the end of Ebay for sellers like me.
Not giving eBay my passport or driving licence
Having sold with positive feedback for over a year ebay have now held the £49 in my account until I send them photo I.D which I have refused to do as they already have my National Insurance number and bank details but requesting my passport is I beli...
Resolved! My orders are being returned to me from the Global shipping Hub
Is anybody else experiencing this? I have had 5 international parcels returned to me as the seller in the last few days…There is no explanation and I couldn’t get any help from EBay support. I am having to let customers know this is happening and I’m...
Loosing sales as i can not combine postage
Yes, when a buyer buys multiple items of offers i have sent them, they have to pay postage for each one, crazy, i can not combine postage and they can not combine.I say i will refund the excess but a lot of buyers have trust issues and will not proce...
