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Seller News: May 2025

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Posting a camera with a battery via Royal Mail

I need to send a camera and battery to a buyer in Belfast from South West England, and am wondering what Royal Mail's current rules are for sending batteries. I'm having trouble finding a definitive answer when checking the Royal Mail prohibited item...

SALES FROM LISTINGS

First and foremost this is not a criticism of others as I have experienced the following myself. If one lists 200 items as But It Now for one month and achieves 10 sales which equates to 5%.Yes I know it’s a personal decision but time, unsold items p...

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Digital Sales Reporting

Can anyone let me know in simple terms please, what this all means? I am just selling items from around the house that have been lying around and are no longer needed or wanted. Granted I may have sold 30+ items and sales are in the region of £1500-2...

New Rule - eBay to hold sellers funds for 14 days

Effective February 2025, ebay will hold private sellers funds for 14 days if the order is posted with an un-tracked delivery service (such as Royal Mail 2nd Class). I think it's a brilliant idea if they want private sellers to leave the platform in t...

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.

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Can I still use Royal Mail Special Delivery?

So I've just had an email saying that from 15th April you can only use simple delivery for selling. Does this mean I can't go to the post office and send by Special Delivery as I normally do? I always use SD for peace of mind and won't use anything e...

Resolved! Buyer Protection

Just noticed all my items listed this week Ebay have increased my starting price by 75p+ 4% this will impact on my sales as some items are listed low to sell. If Ebay want to get Buyer Protection from the Buyer they should add it at checkout so not t...

Selling price increased by ebay

Hi, I've recently returned to eBay after a break. I have listed quite a number of items and have found that ebay has increased the selling prices I placed on the items. I have never come across this before and am just about to remove all my items; bu...

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Resolved! Global Shipping Program USA to UK - Not working US seems to have been taken away this morning

Hey all, This morning I've had several customers contact me from the US saying that even though they are watching my items, and could purchase them yesterday through the GSP they can no longer do this and all my other items that they are not watching...

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...

Rip off eBay

Another corrupt company has now shown me that they have joined the growing scam culture that is unfortunately being accepted in our country. It all comes down to the simple things that we are tought to avoid by our elders are now acceptable in today'...

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