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...
Resolved! Global Shipping Program jumped in price to same buyer
Three weeks ago I sold a box of 42 magazines to a buyer in the States. The GSP charge for the buyer (Sales tax, transaction fees, postage label) was £43.23. The buyer wanted 4 more magazines, which would obviously be less bulky to send, and I set up ...
Resolved! Simple Delivery
Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage
Limit on selling personal items on eBay per year
I am refurbishing my house and selling personal items ie smeg fridge freezer , mirrors , leather furniture , dining chairs , cabinets , double bed possibly fitted wardrobes this is more than a £1,000surely HMRC can see that from time to time there wi...
eBay Is Dead
I am thinking eBay as a selling platform is dead since the seller protection was added ? I wonder if eBay have notice the decline in sellers since new rules started . In my 20 years of selling on eBay Ive never seen it like thisI have 20 watchers on ...
Simple Delivery missing parcels
Hi, I recently sent some orders using eBay's Simple Delivery system with evri and all 4 have gone missing. Two of the buyers so far have put in a claim for a lost parcel with eBay which I assumes is the correct route to go down as they have buyers pr...
Dead as a Dodo
Ebay is.........read my title. Nearly extinct.
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.
Combine postage, simple delivery
I just sold 2 items to the same person, using simple delivery, postage has not been combined. I have checked my settings and there is no option to combine postage, not is there a way to combine postage on postage page either. Is there a way to combin...
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...
Thinking of selling expensive designer handbags on Ebay
Hi all, I have a couple of used expensive designer handbags I am thinking of selling on eBay between £700 and £2,500. I have been doing some research first before listing them and not sure what to make of it. Obviously they will need to go through th...
sending invoice for combined items as done many times
SENT INVOICE FOR SIX LOTS AS COMBINED, SAME CUSTOMER AS BEFORE HE RECEIVED THE INVOICE NO PROBLEM , THEN TOLD HE COULD NOT THE MAKE PAYMENT AS PROBLEM WITH THE INVIOCE, WHEN I CONTACTED EBAY ON THE PHONE, THE GUY WAS NO HELP TOLD ME I HAD SENT AN INV...
Rip-off delivery pricing.
I see that ebay will now only let us use simple delivery.The prices there are at least double what I can find on Parcel2go, ParcelMonkey and even Royal Mail.The same couriers that simple delivery uses, in fact.Ebay must think we are simple. Looks lik...
Trump's Tariff War Hitting Sales To The USA
Prior to Trump taking office, half my sales of rare books were to the USA. But now 100 days in - with the dollar having plunged in value and Trump's toxic threats of tariffs on anything and everything - my sales to the USA have plunged to zero. US bu...
Funds pending
That's me done with Ebay now! I don't sell very much but when I do I want my money straight away. I don't want Ebay to hold on to it for however long it takes before giving me access to it.The money they must be making in interest must be massive.Bee...
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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