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...
6th August
So 6th August is when everything is supposed to switch to Simple Delivery, even existing listings. Not sure how that will work because I don't have dimensions or weights listed for any of my items. It will also be the day I take down my listings if i...
New postage policy seems a bit dodgy...
Anyone else find the ‘new’ postage process for sellers frustrating and a bit suspicious? Specifically: Ebay now require sellers to select the postage service during the listing and only allow them to use that postage service once the item has sold. 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.
How do you list anything bigger than 61cm? Part two.
Haven't had much time on this yet but first attempts with this new listing format today is like this to get back to your own carrier who will take your large/small items, (preview works, not tested with listing): Still start with over £750 - £800 is ...
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.
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...
Flurry of sales sort of
It’s probably nothing but after having one sale a month or so for months on end I got five in last few days and I wondered what’s going on ? admittedly I promoted a few of them but not all but I’d promoted others before and nothing happened so I’m go...
What are E-Bay doing ?
Totally confused what postage I am to pay for my listings.Today an item i listed 5 years ago at £9.99 sold but I was forced to pay thu simple delivery at £2.72 9. I would normally sent this out with a 2nd class large letter stamp at £1.55.Another ite...
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
With the MTD for IT becoming mandatory from April 2026 what low cost accounting software do other Ebayers use that will make this possible. With profit margins squeezed and postage costs forever increasing turnover can be high enough to make MTD mand...
Simple delivery
Simple delivery for items over £20 (everi-royal mail) compensation for lost and damaged is limited … the choice to select a decent courier with an insurance option has gone. Therefore anything sold over £20 is a risk to the seller yet we must pay a s...
Does eBay change the SD label fee if it overrides buyer's/seller's choice of courier/service?
kat@ebay Hi Kat, I'm tagging you as I wasn't able to join today's weekly chat to follow up an unanswered question from last week's. Copied from the chat session on 23.07.25: @irt303 wrote:Hi there, I hope it’s okay to ask three questions in one post....
How does combined postage work with Simple Delivery
Some bright spark in CS told me that to combine postage, all you have to do is use one simple delivery label and the buyer will be credited for unused labels after 30 days or so.I really cannot believe the stupidity of some of the answers CS give.If ...
Sold Via Promoted Listings No Longer Showing In Orders Overview
Just a heads up everyone - it appears eBay is no longer showing the green "sold via promoted listings" text to determine if an order was attributed to an ad on the Orders overview page in Seller Hub. Previously it looked like this: Now it no longer h...
New Fees calculation.
OK, I understand that there are new fees applied, and I have just noted that an item I had listed at £9.99 is now listed at £11.11! The odd 11p makes it look a very unappealing price. I could list it at £10.99 and take the hit, but my question is ......
Special Delivery with £1000 insurance
Hi All Earlier this week I posted a high value Pokemon item and paid for the appropriate level of compensation via Royal Mail Special Delivery. The following day my parcel was successfully delivered and an image of the parcel including GPS coordinate...
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