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...
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?
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...
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 ......
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...
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...
EBay Policy Violation: counterfeit item policy
I get so frustrated with eBay these days as there is nobody to talk to on the phone, although, from past experience, customer service is not much use anyway.I have had a listing suspended due to an apparent policy violation of the counterfeit items p...
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.
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...
Resolved! Unable to send Invoice or Combine Postage
So usually when I sell multiple items to a buyer I send them an invoice and adjust the postage accordingly - there is no such option there at the moment - there is a link to combine items so I click on that and then try and collate them there and get...
Resolved! Bank account problem - Joint bank account
Hi, hopefully somebody can help me with a problem I have encountered. I have just sold an item on ebay, having not listed anything for a few years. The sale has gone through, the item is delivered but the system is telling me I need to have a bank ac...
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 ...
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...
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