Seller News: July 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...
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
With the MTD for IT becoming mandatory from April 2026 what low cost accounting software do other Ebayers use that will make this possible. With profit margins squeezed and postage costs forever increasing turnover can be high enough to make MTD mand...
Combining seperate items
I am a private seller. Somebody bought two items from me, about a minute apart, but checked them out seperately. In this case the help (https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/posting-items/postage-rates/offering-combined-postage) says: "To ensure you're...
Seller directory
Is there any sellers directory where I can find a particular seller.
Evri delivery why do ebay use them they are unable to do the job
Evri expect to lose 8 MILLION Parcels in 2025 that's a lot of disappointed people so why do eBay have them as a delivery service?. if eBay had to pay for any delivery going missing they would soon get a different company to do the job. why don't buye...
Nothing is selling?
Just endless watchers? I have even factored in the buyer protection fee to my items. Can’t sell anything, not even at rock bottom prices? I currently have a few items for sale and nothing? Not even an enquiry? People can’t be that broke? Seller prote...
Resolved! Parcel too large for simple postage
Hi, I am trying to list a new item on eBay and this new simple postage option is causing some problems. The parcel will be slightly too large for the largest option available to me and there's other options.Royal Mail are very strict with size and we...
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...
Pre paid label shambles
I clicked on the thing to get a pre-paid label, which I won't use as I always post 1st Class door to door. The system then told me I have posted the item (I haven't) and I cannot see how to add first class postal tacking number when I do post the 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.
Resolved! EBay asking for national insurance number
Hi everyone, I recently joined for like 1 month and I start selling as a private seller , and now eBay is asking me to provide national insurance number."New UK digital sales reporting legislation requires sellers with 30 or more sales, or who have s...
AI Feedback
Another bad idea thought up by ebay’s lower or middle management to justify their existence “Order successfully completed, tracked and on time” It makes your profile and feedback profile look fake and manufactured
Resolved! Global Shipping Program USA to UK - Not working US seems to have been taken away this morning
Hey all, This morning I've had several customers contact me from the US saying that even though they are watching my items, and could purchase them yesterday through the GSP they can no longer do this and all my other items that they are not watching...
Resolved! Why am I not receiving my funds within 24 hours (as stated by eBay after the 6th August)?
Ive had 3 sales since the 6th and all the payouts are still showing as being available multiple days after the estimated delivery date, I am fully eligible for receiving the funds within 24 hours (as ebays 'timeline' states) yet Ive had 4 sales be pu...
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
Sales to USA after August 29th - Tariffs / End of de minimis
I asked about this in the weekly chat, specifically whether ebay are alerting US buyers to the fact that they will shortly have to pay duty on anything delivered from outside the US and marco@ebay helpfully later posted this link showing that there i...
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