UK Seller News: April 2025
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ONLY USING LOCAL POST OFFICE FOR DESPATCH OF SOLD ITEMS.
Hello …. Does anyone know for certain what happens to the postage paid by the buyer and I do not print off the postage label (supplied by eBay) and chose instead to pay my local post office for postage out of own pocket ?I am finding eBay rather conf...
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.
is e bay damaged beyond repair
question.... is e bay damaged beyond repair ?a lot of buyers and sellers both private and business have abandoned e bay some giving up selling some have gone to vinted which is now flooded with former e bayers and some like myself have a foot in both...
Resolved! Am I right that Simple Delivery cannot combine postage for multiple purchases?
Hi, I have not sold anything since last summer, but I want to re-home a few model railway engines. It is quite likely that the same buyer might want more than one. I have just found out about this Simple Delivery system and have been reading all the ...
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...
A 'Petition'
In one particular thread about 'Simple Delivery' which I've been active in over the past few days, the suggestion has been made that someone - ie., me, an eBay member of 25 years - should start a petition.With seemingly thousands of posts in numerous...
4% fee needs to be recalculated more like 80% for low value items
Heres the real numbers regarding the private sellers fee also know as "buyers protection" for low value sales. If you list an item for £1 = 76% mark up If you list an item for £2 = 40% mark up If you list an item for £5 = 23% mark up If you list an i...
Resolved! 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...
Offers not what they seem
I just don’t understand offers on BINs now. I had an item on at £13.99. Someone offered me £11.99 which I accepted however when I actually looked at my earnings it was only £7.49 as the total offered included buyer protection fee, Simple Delivery pos...
its not free to sell - false advertising and needs to be taken down.
"It’s now free to sell. What you earn, you keep. We removed fees for private sellers in all categories," Once you sell and item there is a fee applied. Its called a "Buyers Fee". We removed fees for private sellers means, there will be no fees for pr...
Confirmation that large letter is excluded from Simple Delivery
Asked the question in today's weekly chat and received the following reply:
Is it possible to suspend my listings once I reach my tax limit for next year without readvertising?
Is it possible to suspend my listings once I reach my tax limit for next year without readvertising them all again? I cancelled the listing s last year but they all disappeared after 3 months?
Marking a cash sale as paid isn't working
Yesterday, I sold an item for collection in person and took cash payment. I now want to mark it as payment received but it's not working. I know how I am supposed to this. I selected the relevant item under "Manage orders awaiting payment", clicked o...
Being charged the same final value fee?
I might be being stupid here as I couldn’t wrap my head around what the agents were telling me on webchat. basically, I just started my business account, I sold a few items but to just focus on 3: I sold a ps4 game - which to my understanding should ...
postage
every time i try and add domestic postage i have to keep adding the postage again as it keeps disappearing is this happened to anyone else before
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