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...
"Simple delivery" large items - 1.1 stars on Trustpilot
Title says it all. If you sell an oversize item on "Simple" delivery, you have to use DHL eCommerce. Their Trustpilot rating is 1.1 (on a scale from 1 to 5) with over 600 reviews.
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...
Why do Corporations Allow Critical Forums
I asked my mate Copilot and he said:Great question—and it’s a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? You’d think corporations would avoid spaces where they’re publicly roasted, but there’s actually a strategic logic behind it. Here’s why they often host or tole...
Help! I Need to Stop the Continuous Promotion of My Listing
Please help!I must have missed setting an end date for a listing I promoted, and it has been running continuously since then. I have only sold one item, and all the money from this sale has been lost to eBay's promotion. How do I stop this promotion?
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.
Shipping to USA
Could somebody please tell me when this might be made possible? The item I'm wanting to send is a t-shirt.
Payments withheld the second I become a business account
The stakeholder information in the company document provided does not match your eBay account. Review your stakeholder information and update your account with the correct details. Everytime I submit my companies house details I get this message. the...
Items not showing true price when item clicked on.
Any one having this problem. My items page show the gallery pic, amount of bids and the current price. If I click on an item, the item shows the correct amount of bids but the price is the starting bid, not the current price. I have 3 items finishing...
"Simple" delivery of large items - what a fail - forced to wait at home for a whole day.
So having sold a large item (plastic wall cladding sheets, about 1kg, but 1 metre long) I had the joy of "simple" delivery to content with. Only option for the size was the large size, which it turns out is DHL collecting it. No option to drop off, h...
Buyers receiving empty boxes? New Scam?
So these are all simple delivery parcels however I have had 3 people saying that the parcel is empty. Because it's simple delivery it is dealt with by eBay but is this a new scam exploiting simple delivery? And at what point will this possibly impact...
Lost international order lost 2+ months buyer claimed not received and I refunded then delivered
So around mid-late of June 2025 a buyer from an Eastern European country ordered something and I sent it tracked International via Royal Mail UK and on the tracking around, then end of July 2025 the buyer contacted me stating that they had not receiv...
WARNING! Ebay are not properly refunding unused Simple Delivery postage!
TL;DR: Ebay SD refund rules are misleading and are not being followed by Ebay themselves! For the SECOND time now, even after filling out the postage refund form and the form saying on it and after submission at the end "Please allow up to 14 days fo...
Is there a working online tariff charge calculator ?
Hello all fellow happy Ebayers! I am looking for a WORKING membership/registration free tariff calculator, something that keeps current with the current US Presidents tariff levels, where I can choose currency, country of import/export and probably t...
Sales on Ebay outstripped by Sales on Vinted
13 years I have been using my current ID/account on Ebay and never ever ever did I imagine writing this - SALES ON VINTED HAVE JUST OUTSRIPPED THOSE ON EBAY BUY 12 TO 1 - 24 sales on Vinted this month only 2 on Ebay even then last Ebay sale was Augus...
Feedback accessing information
Hello knowledgeable ones. I recently noticed I can look at my purchasing feedback and by pressing on it gain all information of my transaction.Thats great but I tried it on other people’s and I could check theirs out too.My question is can buyers loo...
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