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...
Special Delivery with £1000 insurance
Hi All Earlier this week I posted a high value Pokemon item and paid for the appropriate level of compensation via Royal Mail Special Delivery. The following day my parcel was successfully delivered and an image of the parcel including GPS coordinate...
New Fees calculation.
OK, I understand that there are new fees applied, and I have just noted that an item I had listed at £9.99 is now listed at £11.11! The odd 11p makes it look a very unappealing price. I could list it at £10.99 and take the hit, but my question is ......
Fee Changes have KILLED Private buying & Selling
As a buyer and seller on here for 22 years, I'd like to congratulate the people who came up with this buyer protection scam. Let me refresh you with the original announcement and I Quote: "At the end of 2024, we changed our fee structure, making it f...
How do you list anything bigger than 61cm? Part two.
Haven't had much time on this yet but first attempts with this new listing format today is like this to get back to your own carrier who will take your large/small items, (preview works, not tested with listing): Still start with over £750 - £800 is ...
6th August
So 6th August is when everything is supposed to switch to Simple Delivery, even existing listings. Not sure how that will work because I don't have dimensions or weights listed for any of my items. It will also be the day I take down my listings if i...
Simple Delivery
Hi, I would like to use Simple Delivery for all my items. However the option is not available for ladies hats, belts and handbags or men’s hats? Does anyone know when Simple Delivery will be added to these categories?
Need Help – Can't Add Tracking After Using My Own Shipping Method
Hi everyone,I accidentally selected a prepaid shipping label for an order, but I actually fulfilled it using my own third-party shipping method. Now eBay won’t let me add the tracking number (UK2740679627) because the prepaid label was already select...
PRIVATE SELLERS NOT WANTED ON EBAY
The new regulations on ebay to arrive in February just prove that they are trying to convert Private Sellers to Business sellers. Buyers will noe have to pay ebay for expensive postal and courier rates which I know that I can get cheaper through Roya...
I've not sold anything since the introduction of Simple Delivery
I have tried to resist selling due to all these unnecessary changes, but after some recent costs, I have some items to sell, but I find it all so confusing now. I just want to send low-cost items via first- or second-class RM postage and higher-price...
Finally. Getting our payments quicker. Thank you Ebay.
Never let it be said that I only ever come here to complain about Ebay. I've just found out that I don't have to wait until two days after an item I sent got delivered. Now we get our payments within 24 hours. Like it always should've been. Thank you...
Flurry of sales sort of
It’s probably nothing but after having one sale a month or so for months on end I got five in last few days and I wondered what’s going on ? admittedly I promoted a few of them but not all but I’d promoted others before and nothing happened so I’m go...
Simple delivery nonsense
1. a large letter size envelope now cost 2.94 even know it is under 200g and i have no option to choose 2nd class letter for under 2 quids. nonsense.2. i want to send with evri as it is a 2 minutes walk to shop and not a 25 minute drive like royal ma...
How can i cancel a return label and buy a new one
Hi, a buyer wants to return something, using a bs reason, but I know with ebay sellers have zero rights so I accepted the return and sent a label to the buyer through ebay. I think this was a royalmail label. But i didn't see anything about dimension...
What are E-Bay doing ?
Totally confused what postage I am to pay for my listings.Today an item i listed 5 years ago at £9.99 sold but I was forced to pay thu simple delivery at £2.72 9. I would normally sent this out with a 2nd class large letter stamp at £1.55.Another ite...
Resolved! Changing tracking number after YA fiasco
I had an SD item rejected at my local PO (as did many other sellers). I re-sent the item by normal service and submitted a claim for the lost SD postage. However when I tried to update the order with the new tracking number there was no option to Edi...
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