Seller News: September 2025
Read the latest updates to streamline your selling experience.
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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...
Thoughts on the HMRC and National Insurance Number issue
I'm no longer selling due to Simple Delivery and I am sure that that will affect eBay's revenue from private sellers as well as have a knock-on effect from people buying less due to having less to spend. I should just forget it but the whole thing is...
Failed simple delivery due to address query, next steps?
Hi! Since its easier to ask here than get hold of ebay, heres my question- so, i sold an item (not wort much, 4.50£), despatched with ebay simple delivery (Evri) on 18th September, so roughly 2 weeks ago. Checked during these two weeks that Evri has ...
'sell for free and support black sellers'
Did a double take when this heading landed in my email. I'll just leave this here. Looking forward to more helpful support from ebay. No giggling from the back who say we are supporting Chinese sellers.
payout
Hi I have some problem with Ebay payout.My payout every day, but today not get it they shows available not send me out. Before when I want payout just click and sent money how much I want but now missing that option too. :(( Is this some glitch?
Have any vinyl/CD sellers shipped to the US via the GSP hub and not had tariffs applied?
Any eBay reps are unwilling to shed any light on this - physical music formats are exempt from tariffs but I'd like to know if any sellers shipping to the US using the Global Shipping Programme have had tariffs applied or not to the total for the buy...
Resolved! Has the Global Shipping Programme been suspended?
An Ebay member in Sweden wants to purchase an item from me but is getting a message saying that I do not ship to Sweden. All my items have the GSP option shown in the listing. Can anyone explain why my potential customer is unable to purchase from me...
Offer on item to post to germany when I specifically exclude non UK locations.
I have a parts Canon S100 listed and like all my other listings I specifically exclude sales to outside the UK . I have received a fairly high offer however it says "posts to 68199, Mannheim, DE" , how is this possible, shouldn't the offer be blocked...
Red Banner Saying “Open Issues” But I Have No Issues
Hi everyone,I’m hoping someone here can help or has experienced the same problem.Recently, my eBay account was reinstated after a restriction. Since then, I’ve noticed a red banner under my payment section saying there are open issues to resolve. How...
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.
"Mark as dispatched" - gone
As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...
Resolved! Postage costs
Can anyone help please? Sorry don't know if this is the right board, tried member to member with no luck. I listed an item with simple delivery, buyer pays. As usual I was given the choice of postage options. I selected large letter at a cost of £1.5...
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 .......
Royal Mail/Parcelforce tracking not updating
I can see that there has been observations that sellers using Royal Mail/Parcelforce are experiencing tracking issues, whereby EBay is not updating their tracking information accurately or at all! This seems to be due to restructuring undertaken by R...
Contacting customer support here?
Is it possible to contact customer support here? I understand that everything but 'get us to call you' has been removed, but I'm going round in circles with an issue with a buyer.Connecting to overseas call centres where operators don't understand yo...
Late delivery defects / royal mail not scanning
Hello We have recently had a barrage of late delivery defects taking us up to 4%, resulting in us being due to loose our top rated status this month. We have recently switched to Royal Mail as our default courier, but it appears they are regularly no...
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