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...
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.
How to improve listing visibility? Items not displayed in search
I get little or no views on some of my items. A number of them seem invisible when searching the specific item. For example “Telescope”.. I literally can’t find my item? Is there anything I can do to improve my listings? I only selling stuff I don’t ...
‼️Warning for Gold and Silver sellers ⛔️
Hi Guys, I sold a 1 kilo Johnson Matthey silver bar here to a user. I felt off as the profile had been dormant then a sudden activity buying gold and silver. I called eBay who incorrectly (!!) informed me I should leave the sale as I would be liable ...
eBay Signs Small Business Payments Fairness & Transparency Pledge
I thought some around here might be interested that eBay UK joined PayPal, Temu, OnBuy, Stripe and others in signing the Office of the Small Business Commissioner's 10 point payments fairness and transparency pledge. https://www.smallbusinesscommissi...
Overzealous hiding of usernames
Alright, hear me out on this. I totally understand why it's important to withhold from sellers the identities/full usernames of followers, watchers, and "interested" people who've been sent offers. It makes perfect sense from a privacy standpoint tha...
Nobody leaves feedback anymore
Since the introduction of automatic feedback I have noticed less buyers leave it. I am just a guy selling my old stuff. Not business, but I always dispatch same or next day if the post office is closed and package with care. My last sale I sent it ha...
Resolved! eBay punishing me for their agent's mistakes
I recently had to cancel six of my presale orders this month, and it appears these cancellations are now impacting my performance review. For context, I previously spoke with an eBay customer service agent Fabian on 10/10/2025 via eBay chat, regardin...
Is jewellery now included in Simple Delivery?
Up until today I understood that the jewellery category was excluded from Simple Delivery. But tonight I tried to list a silver brooch and I am only being offered Simple Delivery - no custom option. I tried on the app and on the desktop. I tried list...
Anyone else come across this potential problem?
I have always indicated 'country of origin' in the item specifics. Up until a few days ago this automatically filled the new 'country of origin' / 'item origin' field prior to the 'item disclosure' section introduced to ensure visibility for US sales...
Royal Mail parcel being diverted via ParcelForce Coventry hub
Just posted this in buyers but has relevance in sellers? Royal Mail tracked 48 parcel being diverted via ParcelForce Coventry hub, apparently to be delivered by Parcelforce also.Has any one else experienced this?I had a quick google and found that th...
Where have all the buyers gone?
Maybe its just me and lots (stamps) I put on but I am finding it a lot more difficult getting anybody to place a bid never mind buy anything. What's happened to all those millions of buyers that are out there? it was never like this before.Do you thi...
Potential Scammer
Just want sellers to be careful. I sold an item (under £10) using simple delivery. The buyer used RM tracked. RM attempted to deliver, but no one was home. The buyer should have then collected the parcel from the Post Office, but failed to do so, and...
2 items sold, eBay combined items into one order. Fails as 2 Medium parcels
A buyer purchased 2 items from me, both medium parcel on the simple postage methodthe buyer was invoiced for an order containing both items paid for both items including combined shipping fee.Both boxes were medium parcel, impossible to fit into one ...
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...
Constant Errors While Trying to Buy Postage
Hi guys,Not a new eBay seller - been selling for many years.Last few weeks I've been having issues buying postage. Keep getting an error message 'We were unable to load payment options. Please try again later.'If I keep on trying, it will eventually ...
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