Seller News: July 2025
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Are Promoted Listings always identified as such?
I know there are Sponsored listings which are identified, but do some listings appear “incognito", ie as a result of a paid promotion but which isn’t identified as such? So it may look like an organic result in searches, but it’s actually been paid f...
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 .......
Is a parcel being lost within Royal Mail and being delivered 18 months later a record? ....err no :)
Had one of life's *bleep*? moments today courtesy of Royal Mail so I thought I'd share it as a bit of light relief. This is actually something I bought rather than sold. The purchase was 23rd January 2024, and sent Tracked 24 - but seemed to get stuc...
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 authentication
I sold a pair of Yeezy that had already been authenticated by another company and had the authentication tag on it. it went to Ebay‘s authenticators, they told me that they did not pass and sent them back and they had cut the plastic tag off. This is...
Resolved! Simple Delivery
Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage
EBay - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Back in the day Shakespeare would have said this about EBay... What would the Baird compare it to now? ... an inflatable dart board...
Simple Delivery.
Could I have confirmation please. Just sold an item on another private account, the item has been listed for months . I assume Ebay changed it to SD. The buyer has paid £2.82 for postage but I know it's a small parcel weighing 200g which would normal...
EBay say item dispatched when it isn’t 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I’ve sold two items recently using this new Simple Delivery (Not a Fan). On both occcassions I requested and received QR Code. Before I had items packaged EBay were showing as dispatched which was completely incorrect. I did ring after 1st experience...
Resolved! Weight limit capped at 20 KG??
I've looking at selling a used turbo trainer that weighs 25 KG however under the "simple" postage scheme this is capped at 20 KG via RM or Evri. DPD and PF can offer the service to pick up and deliver but Ebay dictate that I can't use them. Anyone ha...
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....
Damaged return
So a while ago I sold a watch to a buyer. He opened up a claim to say that the watch hand is broken and the box was damaged, a week after receiving it. The return was accepted and I've just received the watch, there's 2 screws missing from the watch ...
Variations on listing ( New business seller)
Hi I became a business seller yesterday. I sell hand painted gel false nails. I list in the health and beauty- press on nails category. I have a buy it now price. I am trying to add variations to my listings. Im having no luck. I have made sure I am ...
Marking an item as dispatched
Have successfully used eBay for many many years, and have always posted via Royal Mail and done my own labelling. Sent an item the same way a few days ago and cannot find any way of marking the item as “dispatched”, so ebay keeps saying the item is o...
Buyer Protection Fees Calculator
There are loads of discussions on buyer protection fees over in the buying section of these forums, but I think they are just as relevant to sellers! Let me provide an example, have sold a couple of high value phones recently and during the listing p...
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