Seller News: July 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...
My wife sells her own used clothes and accessories on Ebay. Ebay is now asking for a national insura
My wife sells her own used clothes and accessories on Ebay. Ebay is now asking for a national insurance number so if HMRC considers private selling of items to be a business we can't be bothered with selling anymore. Is there a way of making an accou...
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...
Resolved! Simple delivery, Royal Mail - where can I specify Collection?
Another Simple Delivery query... I can specify my courier as Royal Mail.I can - with some tinkering - specify the postage rate.I can't see where to specify Royal Mail collection.This means I have to go to town to drop off my parcel.Can anyone advise ...
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.
Simple Delivery -- Parcel lost but I've had to refund
Greetings,A weird one! Sent off a small parcel Royal Mail Tracked 48 via Simple Delivery. Tracking says it was delivered on the following day by Yorkshire Distribution Centre YDC Parcel Hub to an address well over 200 miles away! There is just a sign...
Listing variations where the individual item price is less than 99p
I am trying to list a load of Lego parts where the individual item price is less than 99p as I believe in a fair price.How can this be done? Can you also do a blanket postage price, e.g. if you buy 20 items it's still the same delivery price, or will...
Resolved! Parcel too large for simple postage
Hi, I am trying to list a new item on eBay and this new simple postage option is causing some problems. The parcel will be slightly too large for the largest option available to me and there's other options.Royal Mail are very strict with size and we...
Royal Mail collection not available
I just sold an item, with me paying for postage, and the seller chose Royal Mail as the delivery service - great. However the only RM service available for me to buy was “Royal Mail Tracked 48 | drop off” (ie QR code) and it said booking a collection...
Preview Final Price?
Like everyone else I am really struggling with the the pricing of items, in particular the final price that the buyer will see. I have just been listing some items and have noted that if I want to achieve a viable price of say £15.99 than I have to m...
upgrading evri postage
hello if i sell an item having selected basic evri deliveryand the item sells for a high price (i.e. above the basic £20 lost parcel cover amount)is it possible to upgrade the evri service used to include extra cover when you generate the evri label?
Someone used my items images to make a sale..
As above. What can be done about this? Surly this is not allowed?
Resolved! Nothing is selling?
Just endless watchers? I have even factored in the buyer protection fee to my items. Can’t sell anything, not even at rock bottom prices? I currently have a few items for sale and nothing? Not even an enquiry? People can’t be that broke? Seller prote...
Resolved! Simply delivery
Simple Delivery on eBay is absolutely terrible. It severely limits sellers and doesn’t even include all the couriers I used before. Honestly, it feels like a disaster — I don’t know who came up with this system, but it looks like something pushed by ...
Simple Delivery Address Labels
I'm sure most eBay sellers will have had sales to buyers addresses containing some errors that require googling to make sense of the address, or sometimes require contacting the buyer for address clarity. In the good old days before the so called awf...
Royal Mail tracking
Most tracking services are very good but not Royal Mail. When checking the tracking for Royal Mail for goods supplied by an e bay seller the Royal Mail site says the tracking will be updated when they try to deliver. Now that is not much good if you ...
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