IE Seller News: April 2025
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Opinions on eBay removing fees for private sellers
Hello everyone, I've just checked my emails to see that eBay have completely scrapped fees for private sellers. I want to know what everyone thinks about this? in my opinion this is unfair on business sellers as we will now be competing with traders ...
Refund
Buyer returned item in bits l oppened an appeal with ebay downloading all the information and photos, showing the item was damaged beyond repair, they gave buyer a full refund I've lost £150 so will be closing account after 25 years.
Is Simple Delivery now mandatory?
Well its the 16th of April and I am still being given the (very welcome) option of custom delivery. I'd like to think it is because ebay have seen sense and decided to let sellers choose. More likely they have run into problems rolling it out and kic...
Australian eBay listing onto eBay UK
HiI live in Australia, and I am an Australian citizen.I have an item listed on eBay Australia that is only useful in the UKHow do I get this item listed on eBay UK?
Best way to deal with a harrassing scammer
If not a scammer, then at the very least someone I want nothing to do with. So this individual emails me asking for an additional photo of a listed item. They are very rude from the outset, and when I upload the photo to the listing they send an insu...
Buyer protection fee
I understand that eBay has to make a profit but this is just not working. I am having to reduce my selling price by 4% to achieve the advertised price I am seeking, effectively a selling fee of 4%. Buyers seem to be staying away as I have only sold 2...
Resolved! Removing Auto Relisting on eBay Option Seems to be Missing
I cannot see the option to remove Auto relisting for an Auction on the current version of Ebay (Private Seller). Here is a screen grab of what I see on the desktop version. The option doesn't seem to appear or am I looking in the wrong place. Also, i...
£10.00 limit for simple delivery opt out
Bit confused here, I’ve looked at various postings but still not sure of the cut off limits for mandatory Simple Delivery. I’ve read it’s £10.00 and 100 grams mentioned. Is this £10.00 and exempt for SDor is it 100 grams and exempt for SDor is it a c...
Simple Delivery and Combined Postage
I had my first experience today of a buyer winning more than one item under the Simple Delivery regime, and it is not great. It is all a bit opaque, but each item individually was a large letter under 1kg, which I think means buyer pays ebay £2.25. T...
International Sales Through Ebay's Mandatory Simple Delivery System 15/04/2025
As most of us here now know that Unfortunately from tomorrow (Ebay Simple Delivery System) shall be completely Mandatory to all Private Sellers, but there is one particular area which I have noticed is not really getting the intention it needs, as UK...
Winning Bidders Who Won't Pay
If a person bids on an item in an auction and wins but then refuses to pay without good reason, why isn't there a sanction that prevents them from bidding on other items until they have paid the seller or at least some compensation if they don't want...
The Payment Protection Fee is like a 'Death Knell' for my account.
This Buyer Protection Fee is like a 'death knell' for my account. My sales have dropped from 5 - 7 per week down to 1 every alternate week. My old DVD collection that I used to sell is no longer worth anything because of this fee. EBay are going to l...
SENIOR MANAGEMENT ACTION LONG OVERDUE
Looking at its history on eBay, feedback response continues to be on a decline. One can assume that buyers and sellers fail to leave feedback because they no longer see any value in it and are simply not bothered with its value. Even eBay fail to pro...
Have eBay changed their mind about Simple Delivery?
I can still list using Yodel. Will this be zapped soon? What is going on?
No more cash on collection.
Just saw the new seller rules. I've got no issue with the reduction in free listings. But no more cash on collection I do mind. It means there is no way to make a buyer check on collection and once they accept it pay with no risk of them changing the...
