Seller News: December 2025
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Simple Delivery is Discriminatory
I have repeatedly told eBay I'm a disabled private seller. With the new Simple Delivery they're foisting on us private sellers they are expecting us to process purchases in 2-3 days. I keep getting reminders to reduce my shipping time by one day - no...
Seller Fees Are Crippling
I've been an active eBay seller for 14 years, but have found that since transitioning to a business account and trying to scale up my small and solo run business, I am being battered by fees on affordable pieces. Some of my items are priced to be aff...
Christmas Sales Wrost in Years - December 2025
Hello, I wonder if anyone elese noticed Christmas sales decline. Other platforms have picked up but Ebay is still slow 1-2 Sales a day What exactly has gone wrong with Ebay run up to Christmas. We are advertising all items over 10% but still no luck....
Sixteen Day Delivery estimate for Royal Mail 2nd Class !!
I noticed that my sales have all but dried up , so had a look at my listings .. I see that they are showing delivery by the 27th of December for Royal Mail 2nd class - sixteen days away ! Has this happened to others ? Is it likely to be fixed ? No wo...
Being discriminated by eBay
Hi I like to complain to eBay for being picked on. As a seller my product was delisted with safety reason but the same product was sold all over. Again the product is deemed safe with improvement being made. So there is categorical discrimination her...
Buyer Protection
Why are eBay still charging sellers the buyer protection fee if we accept an offer??
Ebay's new buyer protection scam
So I have been a seller on and off her since June 2001, Over the years I have sent items recorded delivery that either never turn up , or arrive with no notification of delivery. Now someone wants to charge a buyer a fee for safe delivery, when they ...
ITEM ORIGIN - We prefilled the country of origin for you
Just went to edit an old notice and noticed this statement in the ITEM ORIGIN section: Note that although this is on the 'edit listing' page th,e change had already been made on the live listing, so it's not like ebay are asking for approval before d...
I'm looking for an accountant in South Yorkshire.
Hi everyone, This is my first time posting here, can anyone recommend an accountant in South Yorkshire (more specifically Rotherham) that is good with ebay / online selling? Many thanks, Karen
What encourages ebay to take action against private aka business sellers?
I gather ebay sometimes ebay takes action against private sellers that should be on a business account, and sometimes they don’t, even when it might seem obvious to most people. Are there circumstances under which ebay is more likely to take action? ...
Sold an item and buyer said it wasn't in the packaging.
I sold an item on 4th December. The buyer collected the parcel on 7th December from their local EVRI collection point. The buyer has since said that there was nothing in the packaging; they claim the item was missing. They also claimed that the packa...
Royal Mail issues urgent alert as 58 UK postcodes face major delivery disruption -
DAILY MIRROR...THE SUN,EVENING STANDARD..TELL US SOMETHING NEW! WILL EBAY UPDATE ESTIMATED DELIVERYS?Royal Mail has issued an urgent Christmas warning as postal operations across 58 postcodes throughout the UK face major disruption in the run-up to t...
Something went wrong and we are not able to generate the label
Hi ive tried everything to make this go away and so I can ship out my products. This has even led me to cancelling one of of my orders becuase I couldn’t ship in time. Please could eBay email me the shipping label To my email. And please just fix thi...
Expected delivery date.
Ebay are showing an expected delivery date of 27th december! It is only the 12th. This might put off buyers. What do I do?
Has auction sales gone bit stale??
Curious to hear how other Private Sellers like myself are finding selling on here nowadays. In the past I have sold numerous my stamp collections and always had plenty of interest, lots of bidders with half going International, but this year found it...
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