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 sucks for me too!
I've just taken many of the things I had on sale on eBay off because of this stupid and unhelpful new "Simple Delivery" policy. Whoever thought it would it was a good idea should have asked the eBay users first. I certainly won't be putting anything ...
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...
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...
Sold Via Promoted Listings No Longer Showing In Orders Overview
Just a heads up everyone - it appears eBay is no longer showing the green "sold via promoted listings" text to determine if an order was attributed to an ad on the Orders overview page in Seller Hub. Previously it looked like this: Now it no longer h...
unable to find recent listing
I've been unable to find one of my recent listings, an engineer's surface plate, anywhere.I've looked under various list headings, it's nowhere to be seen. It is well titled, as I've listed similar before, and was listed a couple of days a go. Could ...
Why aren't my items getting views, etc?
As above, selling decent Dickies hoody, gametime hip hop jeans(sell well from U.S) Stronghold Plaid shirt(one went for more!) other sellers same items are selling on site as well. I have even promoted the jeans, Just about to put a carhartt t shirt o...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
With the MTD for IT becoming mandatory from April 2026 what low cost accounting software do other Ebayers use that will make this possible. With profit margins squeezed and postage costs forever increasing turnover can be high enough to make MTD mand...
Simple delivery
Simple delivery for items over £20 (everi-royal mail) compensation for lost and damaged is limited … the choice to select a decent courier with an insurance option has gone. Therefore anything sold over £20 is a risk to the seller yet we must pay a s...
Does eBay change the SD label fee if it overrides buyer's/seller's choice of courier/service?
kat@ebay Hi Kat, I'm tagging you as I wasn't able to join today's weekly chat to follow up an unanswered question from last week's. Copied from the chat session on 23.07.25: @irt303 wrote:Hi there, I hope it’s okay to ask three questions in one post....
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