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...
Buyer telling me the system is not accepting his payment because I don't ship to his location?
Hi All,I created a listing with the Global Shipping option turned on. A buyer sent me an offer which I accepted. He has been a bit slow with payment but has just messaged me saying his payment is not being accepted as I don't ship to his location? (h...
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...
ebay now charging to revise listings?
I've just relisted a bunch of items. Naturally, ebay have automatically changed my custom shipping to 'simple' (anything but), even though 90% of them are still eligible for custom postage. So, I go to edit some of them & every single one of them - b...
Ebay simple delivery opt out
So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......
Struggling to sell
Hi all! just wondering if anyone had any tips, or if anyone had any advice on my listings etc to help? ive queued 5-10 items a day to auto post in hopes consistency helps. Thanks!
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.
Problem with track48 serial YA Royal Mail
I bought a track48 label through eBay and this morning a nice lady at the Post Office said that track48 with the YA number is not accepted and that I should contact the seller. does anyone have a similar problem? did ebay uk sell me a fake label?
Fee Changes have KILLED Private buying & Selling
As a buyer and seller on here for 22 years, I'd like to congratulate the people who came up with this buyer protection scam. Let me refresh you with the original announcement and I Quote: "At the end of 2024, we changed our fee structure, making it f...
Raising a court recovery claim against Ebay
I am raising a court recivery claim against EBay (uk) for interest on my witheld selling funds. Can i suggest to anyone who is experiencing this dubious and frankly damaging behaviour from Ebay do the same. Sellers need to take a stand against EBays ...
What is the point of reporting a listing if being ignored !
On Saturday i reported a listing both online form and by chatting to Ebay CS. Not impressed as the listing for 2 live chow chow dogs is still up and running days later! IF Ebay do not remove this listing immediately then no point in reporting others ...
Resolved! Has the Global Shipping Programme been suspended?
An Ebay member in Sweden wants to purchase an item from me but is getting a message saying that I do not ship to Sweden. All my items have the GSP option shown in the listing. Can anyone explain why my potential customer is unable to purchase from me...
Sellers think it alright to offer second class only or.....
In the context of small items that are typically disc based movies, just what kind of sellers think it acceptable to offer R-M 2Nd class even when I make it clear that I wish to pay the exyta for R-M 48 hour tracked? I live about an hour south of Bir...
Simple Delivery...Low cost items exempt ..... this is what CS say
Thank you for contacting us here at eBay Customer Service regarding our Simple delivery. I understand that you have been notified about this service and you would like to know if low priced items are exempted and what can be considered as low-priced ...
Simple Delivery STILL forcing itself on EXEMPT LETTERS & OUTSIZE parcels
Many many complaints about this since before 17 July 2025. on 18 July 2025 ebay admitted it was "a known problem". Still no proper fix as ebay refuse to acknowledge the problem is their fault. CS offer "work-around" fix of changing the value of the i...
Simple Delivery forced on a revision to a lot that complied with the size/value exceptions
Have had a particular listing up for several years which has escaped Simple Delivery to date because of the low value/size which falls within ebay's exceptions published earlier in the year. I updated it the other day - just changed the number of ite...
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