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...
Decline in sales due to Ebay introduction of buyer protection fees
Just another voice to add to the many dissasfied sellers encountering the decline in sales due to the introduction of Buyer Protection Fees. Sellers are lossing business, so Ebay must be loosing reveniew. Whoever decided to introdce such a scheme sho...
Where have the Buyers gone?
Where is everyone? Sales have dropped drastically sine the introduction of this new buyer fee tax and I find this really depressing to be honest.This site is turning into a digital Graveyard, no actually there's more life in a Graveyard than on Ebay ...
EBay Confusion
Like many others..confusion reigns!.. Latest point…. so, I’m a private seller dealing in small quantity, low value.. postcards. If I post abroad from the UK it costs £3.25 with Royal Mail.However with EBay’s new policy, they charge £2.72 SD…..it’s so...
Buyers who bid on items and don’t pay, ignore messages.
It was so foolish for eBay to remove the ability to give negative feedback to buyers. the reasoning seems to be “to avoid malicious negative feedback” but surely that’s what the function for removing incorrect feedback is for? I had an item which had...
Simple Delivery - how to mark as despatched without generating label?
Good afternoon everyone, Does anyone know of a way of marking an item as despatched without generating a Simple Delivery label, please? Thank you
Selling using personal collection
I’m selling an expensive item (a bike) and have flagged it as for personal collection only. An offer has been made by someone who lives some distance away, near enough financially to be acceptable. However, they have only been a member since April 20...
Resolved! Is the Global Shipping Programme to the USA still suspended?
Just had a potential buyer from the USA making an offer on one of my items. I replied explaining that GSP was suspended. However the fact that this buyer was able to make an offer leaves me uncertain as to the current status of GSP to the USA. Advice...
My Final Selling Price has changed again due to Simple Delivery
OK, yesterday things started to go south. Over the past few months I've been changing my final price using the eBay Fee Calculator which rounds prices up to the sensible £0.99. However, today I've noticed that some of my final prices have changed. Fo...
'Promote it' - How does it work?
eBay keep offering me this 'Promote it' thing, but how does it actually work and what precisely do they charge? They seem remarkably coy about explaining this. I agreed to two of my three items being 'Promoted' but it seems to have made little or no ...
Stamps - Chinese forgeries
Ebay seem oblivious to all the listings of Chinese forgeries of Royal mail stamps -- does anyone know if royal mail ever surcharge letters with these stamps on ?. It is actually depressing prices at outside auctions when collectors sell
Ebay's new buyer protection scam
So I have been a seller on and off her since June 2001, Over the years I have sent items recorded delivery that either never turn up , or arrive with no notification of delivery. Now someone wants to charge a buyer a fee for safe delivery, when they ...
Mountain bike frame requiring age verification on delivery and no available postage options????
Ive been using ebay since 2003 an sol hundreds of items without issue, I havent sold aanything for a few months and today came up against an impossible obsticle in the postage process. For some reason ebay had decided that a mountain bike frame requi...
Resolved! Buyer in Channel Islands unable to pay
I have had an issue with a buyer being unable to pay as they say I do not post to Channel Islands. I have not excluded CI from the domestic postage locations that I send to. I sought help yesterday and was told that I have excluded Guernsey and Jerse...
Where can I find the transcation number and item number of an order
I have started work with a dropshipper but for that i need to figure out the item number and transaction number of the order placed by the buyer on my ebay store. where can i find that item number and transaction number?
Buyer Protection changes smoke and mirrors
From 6th August ebay are changing the fixed value of BPF from 75p to 10p obviously they have discovered buyers arent ...buying. The 4% add on however will now be 7% up to £20 then 4% £20 to £300. This obviously helps sellers of low value items but ta...
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