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...
Live animals prohibition policy...
Hi all!I was one of the people selling aquarium snails on here and a month ago received an email from eBay that stated that live animals (explicitly mentioning snails) will be prohibited from 17th of March, and that I need to take down my listings wi...
Resolved! eBay charging my buyers, buyer protection fee + VAT - Private Seller
Hi I’m a private seller and have just started noticing (my last two sales) buyers have been charged the buyer protection free plus a separate VAT charge. Never happened before. The last sale was for £19.99 and buyer was charged £1.47 buyer protection...
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...
Simple Delivery STILL forcing itself on EXEMPT LETTERS & OUTSIZE parcels
Many many complaints about this since before 17 July 2025. on 18 July 2025 ebay admitted it was "a known problem". Still no proper fix as ebay refuse to acknowledge the problem is their fault. CS offer "work-around" fix of changing the value of the i...
royal mail Now started charging 30 pence for collecting Simple delivery ebay parcels
Royal mail are now charging 30 pence for collecting postage labels that were purchased using simple deliveryso now ebay Labels that you have to purchase with no other alternative option Sellers are getting charged with 30 pence per item // Just happe...
Problem with track48 serial YA Royal Mail
I bought a track48 label through eBay and this morning a nice lady at the Post Office said that track48 with the YA number is not accepted and that I should contact the seller. does anyone have a similar problem? did ebay uk sell me a fake label?
Raising a court recovery claim against Ebay
I am raising a court recivery claim against EBay (uk) for interest on my witheld selling funds. Can i suggest to anyone who is experiencing this dubious and frankly damaging behaviour from Ebay do the same. Sellers need to take a stand against EBays ...
Cannot issue refund.
A buyer bought a video game from me and within minutes cancelled the order. I tried to accept cancellation and give refund but I got an error message yo try again later or contact CS (Useless) CS just told me to wait for buyer to contact ebay for a r...
Buyer telling me the system is not accepting his payment because I don't ship to his location?
Hi All,I created a listing with the Global Shipping option turned on. A buyer sent me an offer which I accepted. He has been a bit slow with payment but has just messaged me saying his payment is not being accepted as I don't ship to his location? (h...
Simple postage
Same buyer bought 4 items separately. Postage paid separately, packaged separately. EBay generated 1 simple delivery QR code. I posted the first package and now the remaining 3 are saying dispatched.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's getting to the end of their patience....
So, I'll put them in order of frustration, and see if anyone else feels the same! 1) "Simple Delivery" - how the heck can it be called "Simple" delivery - the only thing that's simple is the person who came up with the idea. Before I could work out w...
Discriminated against for not having a printer or smartphone ?
This is outrageous ! 'Simple delivery' discriminates ?
Postage error query?
So I have just bought two postage labels through Ebay for Large letter up to 100g, cost £1.55. Cost for P&P was listed as £2.35 and this is what the buyer paid. However Ebay has deducted £3.35 from my order earnings. I have realised that when setting...
FAKE STAMPS ON EBAY
Are EBay ever going to do anything about all the Chinese fake royal mail stops on the site ?.decent sellers cannot now operate because the site is running alive with fakes -- is there no way around this for them ? --
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...
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