UK Seller News: April 2025
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A coule of Simple Delivery questions.
If I have more than one item to send does Simple Delivery work out a combined shipping amount for the buyer? I used to adjust the invoice myself and I am worried it won't be accurate if simple delivery does it. Also I send my orders in A4 board back ...
Why do ebay want my national insurance no.
hi why do ebay want my NI number i dont like giving out this info
Ebay Global Shipping, package delivered but item missing
Hi, An item was sold and delivered via the Ebay global shipping but the customer has recieved a damaged package with the item missing. How do we go about resolving this? Can I resend an item using the same shipping label?
DROP IN SALES SINCE NEW BUYER PROTECTION 4TH FEB 2025
Has anyone else noticed lack of sales since the buyer protection update 4th february 2025. I used to sell quite a lot and virtually sold nothing since 4th Feb. Can anyone else relate to this and what can we do?
New postage policy seems a bit dodgy...
Anyone else find the ‘new’ postage process for sellers frustrating and a bit suspicious? Specifically: Ebay now require sellers to select the postage service during the listing and only allow them to use that postage service once the item has sold. T...
Resolved! Does Simple Delivery assume that all private sellers have a printer?
When simple delivery is made mandatory for private sellers will the process be as follows: * Purchasing buyer chooses the postage option they want i.e. Royal Mail or EVRI* Buyer completes checkout, buying the postage from ebay* Ebay sends the postage...
Simple Delivery Exceptions size still not clarified
Yesterday's update from Eve Williams, General Manager, eBay UK says"Items which can still use untracked service: There are a few categories of items where we’ll still permit untracked services if that’s your preference. This includes letter-sized ite...
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 stop ebay giving away my personal information with Simple Delivery
The Royal Mail online postage site allows sellers to choose not to display their home address on the delivery label when sending out items to buyers. Now that we have to use Simple Delivery, the Simple Delivery Royal Mail labels appear to show seller...
yes its here simple delivery starts on the 15th of april
just recieved this from e bay so as from the 15th you need to either have a printer i pad or smartphone to take a photo of the QR code take that to the post office to send your parcel with nevri or royal fail.so if you sell 1 item say monday you do t...
Had Enough
Well after 24 years and having a Business account and a private account I've finally had enough. I Started back in 2001 when most people didn't even know what Ebay was! I used to go to the auctions allot back then until Ebay killed off most of them, ...
Possible way around Simple Delivery....
This is posted from my Business eBay account, but relates to my Personal Account. So, this morning I spoke with Customer Services about the fact that eBay had changed my listings to allow Evri delivery to be chosen by the buyer, despite it being a 15...
Thread for sellers' experiences of Simple Delivery and if only their chosen carrier is actually used
Yes, I know there are a lot of Simple Delivery threads but I imagine this one will be helpful for others too. I'm holding off listing any more items and taking existing ones down tomorrow as there's no way that I want to use Evri. I asked earlier thi...
SD today.
Just sold something. Over £10.00, under 100g. I've can click the blue box to get SD label and QR code, but, I've also been given customers address and option to apply own tracking number without progressing to SD. This was on an existing listing and ...
DNA Magazine
I am going to list a few items one of which is DNA Magazine No. 129. I generally check what similar items have been sold or are up for sale and to my amazement I have found the same magazine actually SOLD for USD$2000! Whilst I would love to think th...
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