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...
US Buyer won't provide SSN to UPS for clearance purpose and says he won't pay customs & tariffs
I am a seller based in the UK but list on both US and UK ebay. Sold an item to the US, not through Global Shipping Programme but charged shipping cost and used UPS myself.Declared properly with UPS. UPS then requires Tax ID/ SSN from buyer. Buyer ref...
Why not just allow ALL items under £20 to be free of Simple Delivery?
Utterly useless eBay hyping up a decision to allow items under £20 to be free of the irritating Simple Delivery when the fact is it only applies to a tiny handful of categories which no buyers visit anyway. Just admit you got this wrong, Ms Williams,...
Simple Delivery now optional for items under £20 including Large Letter
New email just received says: We’ve listened to your feedback and made Simple Delivery optional for more items priced £20 or less. This includes items in categories like Trading cards, Coins and Stamps, which are typically letter or large letter-size...
Seller location showing
Years ago when setting up my selling account, (this is account for forum use), I set my location as UK, United Kingdom and for years it was shown as this and when listing new items that is what appears on my listings. Also when viewing my own listing...
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.
Having to opt out of Simple Delivery on EVERY LISTING
OK so listing some items tonightgood news first - even though Simple Delivery is now being pushed I can opt out to custom settings and select my standard shipping ratesbad news - I have to opt out of Simple Delivery every time I list even though I am...
Buyer won't collect item, but has paid. What now?
I sold a large heavy item on eBay which was listed for collection or courier at buyers expense. The winning bidder sent a message asking me to generate an invoice based on collection (so £0 postage). Since then I've been in contact with them every 48...
Resolved! Sellers think it alright to offer second class only or.....
In the context of small items that are typically disc based movies, just what kind of sellers think it acceptable to offer R-M 2Nd class even when I make it clear that I wish to pay the exyta for R-M 48 hour tracked? I live about an hour south of Bir...
Where is my 'offer history'?
I have had two offers on items I'm selling which have subsequently been retracted. Ebay are telling me they will be in my 'offer history' on the item page. I can't find this anywhere on the item page. Please can anyone tell me where to look. I use a ...
Is everyone asked to select a postage policy? Author very confused by simple delivery.
How come I get asked to select a postage policy when simple delivery will take over from anything I specify? What is a postage policy anyway? I am an individual not a business. I listed an item, eBay suggested shoebox up to 2kg. But I still had to se...
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 .......
Simple Delivery...Low cost items exempt ..... this is what CS say
Thank you for contacting us here at eBay Customer Service regarding our Simple delivery. I understand that you have been notified about this service and you would like to know if low priced items are exempted and what can be considered as low-priced ...
Charities and ebay shop subscriptions
Hi, I've started working for a local charity setting up and running their ebay account. We get the reduced final value fees for charity of 1.1%, and presently we pay a 36p insertion fee per listed item. Are charities able to take advantage of ebay's ...
Sellers- How do you feel about people watching your items but not buying, making offers, or bidding?
Buyers- why do you watch? I've been a buyer on ebay for years, but I'm a new seller. All my listings atm except the 3 I uploaded this morning have at least 1 watcher each. I wanna know how sellers feel about watch. Does anyone else get really fed up ...
Overcharged Ebay FVF after upgrade to business account
Posting this as more of a warning. I upgraded my private account this week to business. I then noticed that all my sales were being charged a final value fee of 10.6667% regardless of the Headphones and E-reader categories which should be charged at ...
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