Seller News: October 2025
Read the latest updates to streamline your selling experience.
Forum Posts
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...
"Simple" delivery of large items - what a fail - forced to wait at home for a whole day.
So having sold a large item (plastic wall cladding sheets, about 1kg, but 1 metre long) I had the joy of "simple" delivery to content with. Only option for the size was the large size, which it turns out is DHL collecting it. No option to drop off, h...
Simple Delivery is just too expensive for many smaller items - will it get more flexible
Hi All,I want to sell lots of small booklet magazine which should cost about £1.55 but Simple Delivery seems to be totally inflexible and assumes everything is larger and charges a minimum £2.70.Will probably have to go elsewhwre to sell these and th...
Buyer wanted to cancel order but I already sent it.
If I agree to accept a return, how do I recoup postage costs for sending it, as there wasn’t a problem with the item, they changed their mind.
Simple Delivery Defaults to 2 Days Dispatch when relisting
So I have been using Simples Delivery for a month now. When I relist as sell similar I notice that despite listing originally with 3 days dispatch I have to change each listing each time from 2 days which itdefaults to. If I left it to just relist wo...
Items in draft
Hi everybody! IAM nuw on eBay and never before sold anything through platform like thisIAM pensioner and my technology on iPhone is limited. I posted some items to try sell but the items are e in Draft, I don't know what to do next,?please advise ,th...
Resolved! Simple delivery is awful
I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...
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.
Description formatting issues when revising advert on phone
Is anyone else experiencing problems with a nicely structured advert description becoming scrambled with formatting code added when you revise an advert on a mobile phone? I usually create my adverts on ebay.co.uk then save for later, then add my pho...
Funds pending – awaiting delivery - Why has this suddenly started?
Hi, I've been using eBay for 24 years now and I have never had a 'Funds pending – awaiting delivery' show on any sale. For some reason this has shown on three items I have sold over the past couple of days, when everything else I have sold over the p...
Why are items not relisting 8 times? My items only stay up 1 week
Listing of 7 days are supposed to relist 8 TIMES this is not happening. The items I listed last week have not automatically relisted. This is continually happening and is so frustrating and time consuming. I did phone up and query this but it is stil...
Buyer Sent Cancellation Request After I Accepted Offer - EBay Wants To Return Balance & Card
Hi folks, So I have a buyer who has sent a cancellation request after I accepted their offer claiming they made a mistake. Now when I click on “Approve and relist with fees” instead of decline, eBay wants to refund the buyer using part my eBay balanc...
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 .......
Ebay AI, FAQs and Google Algorithm
We are hearing lots of feedback regarding how Ai and google will align in the near future. In short there is going to be a big shift towards people using Chat GPT (and other AI bots) to help them make purchases. We are being advised to help Ai by re-...
Agreed offer price , but at checkout price jumps
I agreed an off price for an item in the USA - eBay , when offer was accepted I could see that price and estimated shipping fees - and I knew there would be import taxes . but when I go to pay now - the item price jumped up 20% , the shopping by 33% ...
Sellers will receive their money 2 days AFTER the item has been delivered, what on earth !!
From February 2025, sales proceeds of private sellers will become available via eBay balance, 2 calendar days after the order has been successfully delivered, unless subject to a hold.Not at all in agreement with this.Talk about being controlling, wh...
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