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New postage policy seems a bit dodgy...

Anyone else find the ‘new’ postage process for sellers frustrating and a bit suspicious? Specifically: Ebay now require sellers to select the postage service during the listing and only allow them to use that postage service once the item has sold. T...

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Receiving payment - rule change

I have received an email from Ebay stating that from Aug 6th I will now be paid for any sales 24 hrs after payment is recd from buyer. Am I reading this correctly? Can we spend those funds or transfer to bank account?So after all the fuss and palaver...

Private sellers getting little interest from buyers?

What's going on with eBay? I have excess stuff - luckily most of it I've gotten rid of over the past couple of years, I still have a bit more to go, mix of used & new items.I've noticed though that some of my things get 0/low views and then when I ch...

New issue with Simple Delivery 24/07/25

So, I have been using Simple Delivery - and honestly, I quite liked it. It was less bother for me, no booking couriers (I used to import to Evri) and I just print a label as each item sells. As I understood it, even if the parcel is overweight, the s...

Resolved! how do you list anything bigger than 61cm?

Ebay is now forcing me into SD with no custom delivery option The largest postage offered under SD is 61cm There seems to be no way to list anything over 61cm and get the correct postage, even if you declare the dimensions in the listing height, widt...

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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.

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Virtuous Circle or Death Spiral?

Anyone who's had to prepare a 'proper' business plan that potential external investors will use as a basis for making an investment decision, will likely have heard of the 'Virtuous Circle', in simple terms it's things in the plan that feed off each ...

Resolved! What happened to the postage options?

Really eBay, do you have to mess about with a system that is working and turn it into a nightmare? This morning went to do some listing via my templates, and getting to the bottom of the page I realized that my postage options had vanished! Apparentl...

Marking an item as dispatched

Have successfully used eBay for many many years, and have always posted via Royal Mail and done my own labelling. Sent an item the same way a few days ago and cannot find any way of marking the item as “dispatched”, so ebay keeps saying the item is o...

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Resolved! Simple delivery

Help! NOTE to The Gods of EBay .Your New 15th/4/25 : New enforced system of courier-'your way Only' ! 1) I Don't have a printer 2) l've been with you for nearly 10 years without one (.& + see positives reviews !) 3)The Only & post office is openONE d...

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 ......

Ebay simple delivery opt out

So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......

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