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...
Selling without using Simple Delivery
Been thinking of selling an item for less than £10, but when listing it on custom postage and not Simple Delivery I found I was able to list it showing a postal charge of £1.80 Royal Mail UK first class post but not able to show a charge for internat...
Buyer returned item.
UK Seller here. I sold a NEW and sealed iPhone 16 on the 14th August and paid extra at my own cost to get the buyer the item on next day delivery , on the 22nd August the buyer contacted me asking for the item to be returned as 'Doesn't work or is de...
Has anyone sold to the US through the Global Shipping Programme in the last few days?
It does seem to be active with items showing up on ebay.com - just wondering if eBay are charging buyers the relevant tariffs.
No Longer Selling (Or Buying) Due To Simple Delivery And BPF. (Part 2)
A Discussion Thread for private sellers who also used to buy on this platform who are fed up with the compulsory changes regarding SD and BPF that have been introduced.
Buyer problem
Sold an item recently, had to use my own courier as a little overweight, buyer complained about missing parts but not to my knowledge. However offered 25% reduction, heard nothing from buyer, eBay stepped in giving the buyer a refund and the item I w...
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
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...
EBay it’s the end for private sellers.
Well finally after changing the format of their selling platform it seems every couple of weeks you have come up with the ultimate level of stupidity with this latest total ridiculous set of changes. Nobody is going to wait what could be weeks to be ...
"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...
vinted is overtaking e bay
compare e bay and vinted to the hare and the tortise or should i say dinosaur.you only have to look at bids non existant BIN sales clicks and watchers to see bay is not what it used to besometimes i may get 1 or 2 hits no buyers or watchers and then ...
Postage Policy and Special Delivery
I had a couple of live listings on my private account when SD was introduced, Got the memo saying dont worry, all will be overided, SD will now be the way, Had a few sales, all good So i've just gone to list new listings and Ive still got a Postage P...
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 ...
Buyer Protection Fee Woes
I see the Buyer Protection Fee has been added to our items for sale (not for the toys category yet). I know that if someone opens a not-received case for an item and then rings Ebay, that Ebay will often refund them out of their own pocket. Thus enco...
Simple delivery..
Simple delivery- my item is £60. Will the buyer be refunded the whole £60 if I didn't send through simple delivery ervi but sent through my own royal mail instead as long as I proof it has been delivered (must I put the royal mail tracking number ins...
Simple delivery...
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