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...
Double postage?
I am a newbie seller to eBay. I have collectable toys for sale and someone offered to buy 8 if I bundled them at a discount. I ended the listing for all 8, created a discounted bundle, charged the buyer for postage. eBay suggested Royal Mail special ...
HMRC letters? Or do we have to declare?
So ive been selling alot this year, and ive gone waaaay over the £1700 and 30 listingsSo do we have to declare what we sold or do we get a letter problem from HMRC? As some stuff is personal belongings and some is buy and flip for profit
holiday
had put my items on holiday but someone still bought an item and ebay are saying it's overdue. what should i do
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 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 .......
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...
Started returns process only for ebay to refund the buyer without providing a label for returning
Firstly, where has the returns section gone? I posted this in that section earlier, but it has gone? I sold two similar items, but stupidly put the wrong label on each box, so the buyer needs to make a return. They both intiated the returns process, ...
Has Custom Postage Now Gone ?
Please can someone offer some advice.I've read that we can opt out of the Simple Delivery and still use Custom postage but I cant see the Custom Postage option anymore when adding a listing ?I've tried this on new listings, revising a listing, listin...
Muliple Listings
I am trying to list the same type of items using the drop down box tool but am getting nowhere, does anybody out there know how to do it I will need a step by step guide what ever information I get from E Bay I can't follow please help as I have a nu...
simple delivery and email notifications
Did I miss the announcement of the end of 'simple delivery'? also I can't find the announcement of the ending of sale/no sale email notifications
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.
"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 not available for this item"
I am a bit bewildered now, after a respite of some months, and trying SD for a couple of items which seemed to run smoothly, so decided to list a few more items, only to find today that SD is "not available for this item", there is no 'Choice' of whe...
Unable to revise prices on Buy It Now listings (Price format is greyed out)
I am trying to revise prices on some of my listings but am unable to set a price in Buyer Pays box. Also the Simple Delivery information (buyer/seller pays postage) has disappeared. Anyone else experiencing these issues?
Item Listing
Why has my latest item been placed way way down the list, even below items which have clearly been listed for longer. And why has it got 'Boost' along side it.
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