UK Seller News: April 2025
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Resolved! Cash on collection - any risk that eBay will take an immediate electronic payment from a buyer?
I wanted to check I've got this straight. (It's been a while since I sold on eBay). I'm about to list an item of furniture, which naturally has to be collection only, and so equally naturally I only want cash on collection. I can offer that as an opt...
Fraudulent seller
How can i get my refund from a fraudulent seller when ebay is of no help
Getting paid via eBay or PayPal
What happens if i sell an item on eBay and the buyer pays you by payPal, Does the money go through PayPal to your eBay account then eBay pays you or does it go straight into your eBay sellers account then eBay sends you the money.The reason I ask is ...
Abandoned Goods - the big Ebay con
A buyer in Finland bought one of our exclusive postersWe packed and wrapped in a standard cardsboard tubeCost of Poster £25 Cost of postage £30 Buyer paid.We sent the poster, it arrived at the addressEbay send a "complete' transaction notice to usFou...
Partial Refund
I sold an item, and three days after receipt of the item, the buyer sent photos of the lampshade with damage, asking for a partial refund. I explained that the Delivery man must have battered the box it was wrapped in to create that damage, that I ac...
Tracking number from an "integrated carrier" now required for INR seller protection
I've just noticed this when I was about to reply to a post in another thread. It seems eBay's Money Back Guarantee policy has recently been updated: "Evidence of successful deliveryWe require all of the following to prove a successful on-time deliver...
private or business seller
I am confused...I thought a shop meant you were a business seller.However...as a private seller the help page says "Private sellers get an allocation of 300 free listings each month (or, 400 free listings each month if you have an eBay shop subscript...
Return Item lost by Royal Mail
An item (Faulty) was being returned for a refund but appears to have gone missing , the tracking, Tracked 48 shows it at South Midlands DC where it has been since 13/9/24. If it fails to show who claims from Royal Mail, the original seller or the buy...
Resolved! Cash on Collection
I have a buyer who wants to pay cash on collection I obviously didn't enter cash as an option on the listing!! He won't get a code obviously What can I do??
eBay Assured Fit (Hide the option Tactics)
Hi all, has anyone noticed whilst ebay ramp up there advertising about assured fit (free returns for buyers whos car parts did not fit paid for buy ebay) (over the radio and various other places i have heard it) they decide on the mobile app to slyly...
Postage and the ebay user interface
I'm confused with the badly designed postage form on the ebay selling pages. Choosing a postage service in one field (let's say Royal Mail Tracked) brings up a form with a suggested price which AFAIK isn't accurate. In the adjacent field to the right...
NO MORE FEES - Perhaps we private sellers can start selling 99p DVD's & 99p CD's again
as I still like to watch DVD's & listen to CD's and collect cheap plastic kinder suprise toysand have never used , have any inclination to, or know how to use a streaming service.sending 99p items untracked on trustjust like in the good old days
Confused about payment after a sale
Normally the money from selling an item goes directly into my bank account so I get the money quite quickly. Will I now have to request this to be done each time I sell an Item?
Cash on collection - what if buyer pays via eBay (and/or requests courier) before collecting?
Hi, I'm preparing to list a couple of vinyl record job lots for collection only. I haven't done a 'collection in person' listing before, and feel rather nervous about how things could go (assuming a sale, of course). It seems a bit 'Wild West', with ...
Free Listings for Private Sellers Down from 1000 to 300 per Month
Genuine Private seller selling off my comic book collection of several thousand comics which I have collected since the 80s . Did not have a problem myself with seller fees , as in a real world auction the buyer and seller both have to pay about 20% ...
