Seller News: July 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...
Royal Mail tracking
Most tracking services are very good but not Royal Mail. When checking the tracking for Royal Mail for goods supplied by an e bay seller the Royal Mail site says the tracking will be updated when they try to deliver. Now that is not much good if you ...
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...
After 26 years it's sad to say goodbye but Simple Delivery is too controlling and too much.
Tomorrow would mark my 26th ebay birthday, but I'm not staying here for my 27th. The changes over the years have been trying - (why get rid of turbolister??) - and increasingly ebay has shown its controlling nature. It's like the sort of partner ever...
Listing variations where the individual item price is less than 99p
I am trying to list a load of Lego parts where the individual item price is less than 99p as I believe in a fair price.How can this be done? Can you also do a blanket postage price, e.g. if you buy 20 items it's still the same delivery price, or will...
Someone used my items images to make a sale..
As above. What can be done about this? Surly this is not allowed?
Resolved! Simple delivery, Royal Mail - where can I specify Collection?
Another Simple Delivery query... I can specify my courier as Royal Mail.I can - with some tinkering - specify the postage rate.I can't see where to specify Royal Mail collection.This means I have to go to town to drop off my parcel.Can anyone advise ...
Is GSP broken?
Two items recently I've sold using Simple Delivery for UK buyers and GSP setup on the listings for non-UK buyers. Both times the item was won by someone abroad and they end up at the end of the auction being asked for their delivery information! And ...
EBay it’s the end for private sellers.
Well finally after changing the format of their selling platform it seems every couple of weeks you have come up with the ultimate level of stupidity with this latest total ridiculous set of changes. Nobody is going to wait what could be weeks to be ...
My wife sells her own used clothes and accessories on Ebay. Ebay is now asking for a national insura
My wife sells her own used clothes and accessories on Ebay. Ebay is now asking for a national insurance number so if HMRC considers private selling of items to be a business we can't be bothered with selling anymore. Is there a way of making an accou...
Posatge costs who pays now?
HiI have returned recently to ebay to sell some items, but I can't make sense out of the postage situation? I used to post mailing costs and the buyer would pay and I paid a 10% fee, what has altered it shows me as paying??
Royal Mail collection not available
I just sold an item, with me paying for postage, and the seller chose Royal Mail as the delivery service - great. However the only RM service available for me to buy was “Royal Mail Tracked 48 | drop off” (ie QR code) and it said booking a collection...
Resolved! Parcel too large for simple postage
Hi, I am trying to list a new item on eBay and this new simple postage option is causing some problems. The parcel will be slightly too large for the largest option available to me and there's other options.Royal Mail are very strict with size and we...
Does anyone know how to set the label size under Simple Delivery?
Does anyone know how to set the label size under Simple Delivery? I have made my first (possibly last) sale using Simple Delivery. All seemed to go well except for printing a label, it comes as one of four on an A4 sheet and prints a quarter of the e...
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 -- Parcel lost but I've had to refund
Greetings,A weird one! Sent off a small parcel Royal Mail Tracked 48 via Simple Delivery. Tracking says it was delivered on the following day by Yorkshire Distribution Centre YDC Parcel Hub to an address well over 200 miles away! There is just a sign...
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