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...
Does anyone know how to set the label size under Simple Delivery?
Does anyone know how to set the label size under Simple Delivery? I have made my first (possibly last) sale using Simple Delivery. All seemed to go well except for printing a label, it comes as one of four on an A4 sheet and prints a quarter of the e...
Simple Delivery - How Can I Recover Money Paid For An Item Damaged In Transit?
I would appreciate some help please concerning items damaged, or lost, in transit and how these are dealt with under the new Simple Delivery regime. A few weeks ago I was informed by a buyer that his purchase had unfortunately been damaged in transit...
How do you list anything bigger than 61cm? Part two.
Haven't had much time on this yet but first attempts with this new listing format today is like this to get back to your own carrier who will take your large/small items, (preview works, not tested with listing): Still start with over £750 - £800 is ...
An eBay fee for the Trump tariffs?
What is bothering me is whether I'll be further charged by eBay another 10% of whatever tariff Kim Don-Trump has decreed for goods originating in different countries. I expect that, unfortunately, eBay will be compelled to charge us the 10% of the ta...
eBay account seems to suggest buyer got partial refund
About a month ago I sold a non-working laptop via auction and gave a full and accurate condition of the item and what it had lead up to it's failure. It was listed as spares/repair and stated the Hard Disk would be removed for data protection. When t...
eBay Is Dead
I am thinking eBay as a selling platform is dead since the seller protection was added ? I wonder if eBay have notice the decline in sellers since new rules started . In my 20 years of selling on eBay Ive never seen it like thisI have 20 watchers on ...
Resolved! Unable to send Invoice or Combine Postage
So usually when I sell multiple items to a buyer I send them an invoice and adjust the postage accordingly - there is no such option there at the moment - there is a link to combine items so I click on that and then try and collate them there and get...
Sending vinyl - simple delivery
Hello,I am wanting to sell a rare vinyl worth probably in the hundreds. I would like to try avoid the hassle of simple delivery, so am I right in thinking if I use custom postage as opposed to simple delivery I can choose the courier (Royal Mail by 1...
Very possible fraudulent Buyer
Hi have just sold my husbands camera to the highest bidder, went through the process of taking it to the post office using Ebays prepaid label. When I got home my hubby told me he has just checked the address of the buyer, and it seems that the perso...
User
Has anyone had dealings with this buyer? Bought a Sonos Bluetooth speaker from me. Sent by royal mail tracked 48 and have photographic proof of delivery. Still showing as he hasn't received the item. I believe he has bought items under a different na...
Royal Mail tracking
Most tracking services are very good but not Royal Mail. When checking the tracking for Royal Mail for goods supplied by an e bay seller the Royal Mail site says the tracking will be updated when they try to deliver. Now that is not much good if you ...
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...
Marking an item as dispatched
Have successfully used eBay for many many years, and have always posted via Royal Mail and done my own labelling. Sent an item the same way a few days ago and cannot find any way of marking the item as “dispatched”, so ebay keeps saying the item is o...
Resolved! Someone used my items images to make a sale..
As above. What can be done about this? Surly this is not allowed?
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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