UK Seller News: April 2025
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Resolved! Got the dreaded letter from HMRC
Have received a letter from HMRC about online selling and money earned and they’ve asked me to contact them to disclose my earnings . The thing is my whole family use my EBay account , daughter sells her unwanted clothes , my son his toys , I sell my...
Post Office turning away eBay sold packages
FOR GOODNESS SAKE WHAT IS GOING ON WITH eBAY ???Visited my local Post Office outlet this pm. The customer in front of me had 4 of her items sold on eBay refused due to incorrect printed labels supplied by fleece-bay. The member of staff confirmed thi...
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.
Be Aware! Offer prices INCLUDE the Buyer Protection Fee
I made a sale on my personal account this morning for a set of headphones that I had listed at £59.95 with it set to auto accept offers over £50.00. A buyer made an offer 10% below asking price, so £54.00 and as I have it set to auto-accept above £50...
A SALE - AT LAST!
Today, in a departure from the post 4th April norm, I actually had to deal with a successful auction bid!!I received the normal email which showed the bid value, the BPF of £1.01 and a postage charge of £3.00 instead of the £1.00 p&p shown in my (pre...
What happens if I remove all my listings including those with bids?
I am fed up with this non-working new system and as a result want to get rid of the stress so am considering removing all my listings. I have auction items with bids on them as well as BIN items but I would remove the auction items as well as the BIN...
How the Hell do I combine postage for several items?
Someone has bought several items and wants combined postage. Can't send payment details because ebay changed the postage method!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another has bought several...some with my normal Royal Mail postage and the others were changed...
Gold ring stolen by GSP
How is eBay getting away with this!!!I sold a gold diamond ring. I wasn’t aware I hadn’t turned off GSP on the listing and it sold to the USA. I was annoyed about this because of the fees but I honored the sale, I have used GSP for jewellery in the p...
How to stop ebay giving away my personal information with Simple Delivery
The Royal Mail online postage site allows sellers to choose not to display their home address on the delivery label when sending out items to buyers. Now that we have to use Simple Delivery, the Simple Delivery Royal Mail labels appear to show seller...
Item sent through Royal Mail has not arrived with buyer. What to do if (or when) buyer opens a case?
Hello. I posted an item to a buyer on Monday 3rd June using Royal Mail Tracked 48. The estimated delivery date was June 5th-6th. The buyer is based in Scotland and I am based in England. I've been checking the delivery tracking on the Royal Mail webs...
Simple Delivery free postage flaw?
Is this a flaw with Simple Delivery or am I missing something? I want to sell my LP collection on ebay and I want to offer free postage. With SD I select a courier for my LPs. My preferred option is to use Royal Mail and to exclude Evri. RM Standard ...
DROP IN SALES SINCE NEW BUYER PROTECTION 4TH FEB 2025
Has anyone else noticed lack of sales since the buyer protection update 4th february 2025. I used to sell quite a lot and virtually sold nothing since 4th Feb. Can anyone else relate to this and what can we do?
yes its here simple delivery starts on the 15th of april
just recieved this from e bay so as from the 15th you need to either have a printer i pad or smartphone to take a photo of the QR code take that to the post office to send your parcel with nevri or royal fail.so if you sell 1 item say monday you do t...
Resolved! Option to send invoices disappeared
Option on sold listings to ‘send payment details’ has disappeared and I’m unable to send people invoices for combined orders like I normally do. I did a live chat with customer service, but I don’t really think they knew what I was talking about. I h...
Resolved! Possible scam buyer - seller protection advice needed during the returns process
Today's date 31/03/2025: A UK buyer who created his ebay account very recently on 23/03/2025 which was the same day on which he bought a rare (out of production) and relatively high value (£225) board game bundle from me has messaged me this morning ...
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