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...
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 .......
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...
US Tariffs - Royal Mail online service now requesting email & phone number of buyer
I have held 3 items for the US until now and all 3 customers were understanding. I decided to check out the new procedure on the RM website to compare with the post office counter as they had no idea about the new system!I've noticed that they are no...
eBay UK and their users in the depths of despair
As a small business who have used ebay for over 20 years, we are reading these posts because we have so little to do re sales on this particular platform since the seller protection fee was introduced on 4th February but PLEASE sellers, let's be cons...
Please help - scammed
My son recently sold a camera lens for around £700 on eBay. It was in perfect condition as I helped pack it. After about a week the buyer claimed it had marks on the glass, which the photos didn’t really show. My son suggested it was dust and asked t...
A question; perhaps someone can answer.
To summarise: A couple of days ago (22nd August) I had an INR case opened against me. The buyer is in Denmark and the shipping address was the eBay UK GSP shipping hub. Product shipped on 21st July, in reality the 22nd July (the 21st is a Sunday, the...
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...
Resolved! 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...
Buyers receiving empty boxes? New Scam?
So these are all simple delivery parcels however I have had 3 people saying that the parcel is empty. Because it's simple delivery it is dealt with by eBay but is this a new scam exploiting simple delivery? And at what point will this possibly impact...
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 ...
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?
Be Aware Market Flooded with Counterfeit Stamps from China
If you buy postage for your business on eBay you will find an array of offers - pretty much all the bulk offers I have seen from sellers who are not stamp dealers are counterfeit. It is a criminal offence to sell them and a criminal offence to use th...
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...
"Mark as dispatched" - gone
As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...
An eBay fee for the Trump tariffs?
What is bothering me is whether I'll be further charged by eBay another 10% of whatever tariff Kim Don-Trump has decreed for goods originating in different countries. I expect that, unfortunately, eBay will be compelled to charge us the 10% of the ta...
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