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Buyer paid less than the cost of the postage?

I don’t sell much on eBay at all but my latest one has confused me. It shows me the buyer paid 87p for postage but the cost of the yodel label is £2.70? Why am I about to lose £2 on a £7 item? If it can calculate the cost of the label to me, why isn’...

Royal Mail - changes to international postage (customs form)

We sold a sticker sheet to a customer in the US (we are in the UK) and we normally send these via Royal Mail Click and Drop (label generated at home). It seems in the last day or so though there have been some changes whereby you CANNOT generate a CN...

Authentic DVDs??

I am looking for a specific DVD and went on to Amazon first to see if it had been released, you can pre order as the release date is February 23rd. So out of interest i looked on here and lo and behold there are many of this particular series already...

Simple Delivery and Antiques

I hope someone can advise, please.I am a private seller using eBay for decluttering my home. I now want to sell a few collectable items which are of no special value but happen to be over 100 years old. I would like to use Royal Mail as courier as th...

Incorrect Import Tax Charge When VAT Is Included into Listings

We are selling the item at a price of £9.49, however eBay has already charged total fees (including VAT) of £1.86 for this transaction. Despite this, eBay has additionally charged £1.57 as import tax, which is unclear to us.Please advise me what to d...

Resolved! Ukraine

For some reason a buyer from Ukraine has won my auction. It was supposedto be UK only so no idea how anyone from abroad could have bid. Their feedback shows purchases from the USA and Germany, so they're getting their goods somehow. They haven't paid...

Sold several items yesterday and get payout usually by the next day but nothing showing as yet?

Sold several items yesterday and expected to see funds in my account today but nothing showing? I have had no issues getting payments cleared next day for the past several months, so why now? Is it because of Christmas/Boxing day?. I have stuff in my...

Royal Mail Estimates still in christmas format

Hi has anyone else noticed the estimated delivery dates as still being extended, i've noticed even special deliver is adding on a few days on ebay today, (and 24/48 services estimating up to friday/saturday) on my own account and looking at other sel...

Is eBay actually dying? Or is it just private sellers that are suffering?

Ok I know I only sell a handful of things but I'm getting no views and few watchers. Things were much better a year or so ago. Are auctions falling out of favour?

Simple Delivery Update (ie eBay are going to make it even WORSE!)

Today I had a message from eBay informing me that there was going to be some “Changes to some of your listings”. They went on to tell me that “Starting 26 Dec, we’ll begin updating eligible live listings to Simple Delivery.” As I understand it curren...

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

Resolved! Simple delivery is awful

I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...

Sender asked to return parcel Evri

Hi all, I ordered and item which was dispatched by the seller. However, on the tracking on Evri there is an update stating the below: The sender has asked us to return your parcel. Please contact the sender if you need help. Has anyone ever experienc...

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Buyer paid less than the cost of the postage?

Royal Mail - changes to international postage (customs form)

Authentic DVDs??

Simple Delivery and Antiques

Incorrect Import Tax Charge When VAT Is Included into Listings

Resolved! Ukraine

Sold several items yesterday and get payout usually by the next day but nothing showing as yet?

Royal Mail Estimates still in christmas format

Is eBay actually dying? Or is it just private sellers that are suffering?

Simple Delivery Update (ie eBay are going to make it even WORSE!)

Resolved! Simple Delivery

Resolved! Simple delivery is awful

Sender asked to return parcel Evri

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