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! How long ebay will hold back funds for not giving NI number on Blackmail.
Used to sell on ebay but no more as refuse to give ebay my details.ebay is not my employer but just a selling platform, HMRC are not my employer but deal with my yearly earnings where i pay no tax what so ever after calculating my way.so now i cut of...
Seven failed collections....and counting.
What is wrong with people who it seems cannot read or understand the simplest information? I have had an item on sale for `COLLECTION ONLY`, and have just had to cancel the sale for the SEVENTH time due to people buying this item and then asking to c...
Message confusion
I sent a message to a buyer letting them know that delivery would be on XX in case they were waiting in for it. Sent the message & then followed 2 failed delivery attempts. I've just checked the message I sent & I'm not sure about the message below i...
US Tariff Chaos - Can Ebay Help Sellers
Good Morning All, Just logging the worry that the chaos caused by US Tariff confusion poses a huge risk to sellers and the platform as a whole. The current Royal Mail cessation of shipping to America continues and there is no clear info as when they ...
Antiques are exempt from the new US tariff?
Can anyone who has sent an antique to the US confirm that antiques are still exempt from tariffs?Just tried a test post on Royal Mail's website for an antique map of German origin, and an antique map of UK origin, with the code 97060000, and it calcu...
Simple delivery is making life really hard for me.. Anyone else finding this? It is this seller
Several times now eBay's now compulsory "Simple" Delivery hasn't allowed me to sell in a way that is convenient for me. Won't let me use the service I want, and the collection options are less flexible than royal mail. Anyone else feel like this?
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.
Sales on Ebay outstripped by Sales on Vinted
13 years I have been using my current ID/account on Ebay and never ever ever did I imagine writing this - SALES ON VINTED HAVE JUST OUTSRIPPED THOSE ON EBAY BUY 12 TO 1 - 24 sales on Vinted this month only 2 on Ebay even then last Ebay sale was Augus...
WARNING! Ebay are not properly refunding unused Simple Delivery postage!
TL;DR: Ebay SD refund rules are misleading and are not being followed by Ebay themselves! For the SECOND time now, even after filling out the postage refund form and the form saying on it and after submission at the end "Please allow up to 14 days fo...
Where has 'Reply with offer' gone?
I received a cheeky messaege with an offer, and it was a little low Went to click reply with offer and its not there, Desktop and App Has it been removed? How do we create sales with communication/messagiing system?
Why do Corporations Allow Critical Forums
I asked my mate Copilot and he said:Great question—and it’s a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? You’d think corporations would avoid spaces where they’re publicly roasted, but there’s actually a strategic logic behind it. Here’s why they often host or tole...
Sales to USA after August 29th - Tariffs / End of de minimis
I asked about this in the weekly chat, specifically whether ebay are alerting US buyers to the fact that they will shortly have to pay duty on anything delivered from outside the US and marco@ebay helpfully later posted this link showing that there i...
Shipping to USA
Could somebody please tell me when this might be made possible? The item I'm wanting to send is a t-shirt.
"Simple delivery" large items - 1.1 stars on Trustpilot
Title says it all. If you sell an oversize item on "Simple" delivery, you have to use DHL eCommerce. Their Trustpilot rating is 1.1 (on a scale from 1 to 5) with over 600 reviews.
Resolved! Evri is the worst of the worst delivery company i nearly lost my business on other selling platform
Evri have a bad reputation previously aswell with the name of Hermes and now they trading as Evri to hide the bad service my question is why Ebay allowing them to operate here its a bad news for ebay and the sellers im broke cause of them im starting...
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