Seller News: August 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...
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! Global shipping sale. Unsure if the prepaid postage will cover the weight of item.
Still trying to get to grips with this new system. The item sold says 50 oz weight in the description on the order page which is 1.41kg. On my kitchen scales the packed item is around 1.55 kg. Not sure how to proceed as the prepaid postage is £2.75 w...
Negative feedback
I received a negative feedback today. The buyer opened an "item not received " case. Ebay informed me and then 4 minutes later refunded the buyer. The buyer immediately left the feedback. I had no time to respond. Any suggestions?
Resolved! US Tariffs - Royal Mail online service now requesting email & phone number of buyer
I have held 3 items for the US until now and all 3 customers were understanding. I decided to check out the new procedure on the RM website to compare with the post office counter as they had no idea about the new system!I've noticed that they are no...
Has anyone sold to the US through the Global Shipping Programme in the last few days?
It does seem to be active with items showing up on ebay.com - just wondering if eBay are charging buyers the relevant tariffs.
monthly selling
where can i find and download what i have sold each month
"Mark as dispatched" - gone
As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...
Postage Policy and Special Delivery
I had a couple of live listings on my private account when SD was introduced, Got the memo saying dont worry, all will be overided, SD will now be the way, Had a few sales, all good So i've just gone to list new listings and Ive still got a Postage P...
Buyer Refusing Delivery wants a return
Advice Please.Sold something on ebay and sent via Royal Mail Signed For. The Buyer missed today's delivery and is now saying they won't be in to receive it and the options to choose a delivery date, or leave with a neighbour, or collect from a delive...
vinted is overtaking e bay
compare e bay and vinted to the hare and the tortise or should i say dinosaur.you only have to look at bids non existant BIN sales clicks and watchers to see bay is not what it used to besometimes i may get 1 or 2 hits no buyers or watchers and then ...
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.
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...
Problems with simple postage
I’m a private seller just returning to ebay after a long absence, so ‘simple’ postage is new to me. I’ve only sold a small amount so far but have become entangled in various problems and am not finding any solutions through the AI help ebay offers. I...
US Tariff Chaos - Can Ebay Help Sellers
Good Morning All, Just logging the worry that the chaos caused by US Tariff confusion poses a huge risk to sellers and the platform as a whole. The current Royal Mail cessation of shipping to America continues and there is no clear info as when they ...
Sales to USA after August 29th - Tariffs / End of de minimis
I asked about this in the weekly chat, specifically whether ebay are alerting US buyers to the fact that they will shortly have to pay duty on anything delivered from outside the US and marco@ebay helpfully later posted this link showing that there i...
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