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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 .......
How to send a price to somebody who has made an offer on 2 or more items?
Somebody sent me a message offering a price for 2 items I have listed as buy it now. I can't seem to find any way to send them a price to accept for the 2 items. The only way seems to be if they message me independently about both items, I can then s...
Resolved! Am I right that Simple Delivery cannot combine postage for multiple purchases?
Hi, I have not sold anything since last summer, but I want to re-home a few model railway engines. It is quite likely that the same buyer might want more than one. I have just found out about this Simple Delivery system and have been reading all the ...
"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...
eBay Is Dead
I am thinking eBay as a selling platform is dead since the seller protection was added ? I wonder if eBay have notice the decline in sellers since new rules started . In my 20 years of selling on eBay Ive never seen it like thisI have 20 watchers on ...
Simple delivery of large items - does not work
So the saga ends. I sold a largish item and "simple" delivery has only one option - collection by DHL. 3 days later, 3 emails promising collection, 3 no shows (doorcam footage to prove), 3 LIES on tracking that the "premises were closed' (our family ...
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...
Very possible fraudulent Buyer
Hi have just sold my husbands camera to the highest bidder, went through the process of taking it to the post office using Ebays prepaid label. When I got home my hubby told me he has just checked the address of the buyer, and it seems that the perso...
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...
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...
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...
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