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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Resolved! Overly Fussy Buyers
Been taking advantage of eBay's zero sellers fees this year, as I like to try different gadgets, different colours to see which I prefer. I digress, recently purchased a new mobile phone from a business seller on ebay, but after using it for a few da...
Providing Photo ID
eBay is asking for photo ID to continue selling, but I am very uncomfortable uploading my ID onto their system, where they'll store it for who knows how long. Does anyone know if they will accept a link to the photo on Dropbox or Google Drive instead...
Late delivery defects / royal mail not scanning
Hello We have recently had a barrage of late delivery defects taking us up to 4%, resulting in us being due to loose our top rated status this month. We have recently switched to Royal Mail as our default courier, but it appears they are regularly no...
Can not open the ORDERS or sold items page its blank
Any one having problems with getting there sold items page ??? I had email saying I had sold an item went to the orders or Sold items page ,, NOTHING blank page // cleared all cookies still non of my sold item are showing up how do you get a postage ...
Is eBay actually dying? Or is it just private sellers that are suffering?
Ok I know I only sell a handful of things but I'm getting no views and few watchers. Things were much better a year or so ago. Are auctions falling out of favour?
