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Seller News: October 2025

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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...

Simple delivery

Im listing an item which is too big for what Royal Mail allow and i don’t want to use evri due to a bad experience so how can myself as a private seller send this if these are the only options and custom delivery is gone.

Large Letter Price with Not-So-Simple-Delivery

So after a couple of weeks of having not listed anything (and seeing somewhere that Sell Similar doesn't work now with eBay's AI stealth tactics) I went to make a new listing using a template. Using category clothing LL I see the price of postage for...

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How to offer postage on something over 20kg

I have quite a few sports related items to sell, including hang gliding harness and other items like dive gear that is all over the "Simple Delivery" option, IE over 20kg,No i am not willing to absorb the cost, but with the new Stupid delivery system...

Disillusioned With Selling And Buying

THIS THREAD IS NOT JUST TO POST COMMENTS THAT ARE NOT FACT. I hope that there are now plenty of fed up private sellers and buyers who despise these new changes. Ebay used to be a fun place to buy and sell but recently thanks to the greed of the share...

Resolved! Royal Mail 24 hour tracked did not deliver.

A customer placed an order and I posted the order with Royal Mail 24 hour delivery and tracking. The order has not arrived and the customer request a refund. I understand the frustration of the customer.Is there a contact telephone number to speak to...

Are they now overriding private sellers postage options after an items sells?

I know that Simple Delivery is becoming compulsory but so far I have been able to option out and select my own postage options. I have been very careful in ensuring that opting out is the very last thing done before listing as eBay appear to use ever...

Ebay shop

Hi all, Sales have been reducing a fair amount over the past couple of months, possibly due to a lack of potential customers using ebay these days compared to previous months? Looking at views on items we sell, many have zero views at all in the past...

VAT glitch?

I buy from business and private sellers. All purchases show that they include buyer protection, but a fee is charged on purchases from private sellers, and VAT is payable on the fees. As we all know. So far in July I'm also paying VAT at 20% on the p...

Resolved! Buyer bypassing shipping rules by using third-party

I'm feeling quite uneasy about a watch I just sold for £240. The delivery details indicate the buyer is using GGBG, a third-party shipping company in Dartford, to forward the watch to Bulgaria. My listing was strictly for UK delivery, so even though ...

Still Anti-Simple Delivery

Not sold anything since the changes in April, when I sold anything I sent by RM in a normal stamped addressed envelope with the correct postage.Always did it this way so have still got a draw full of postage stamps I purchased for it.Suppose one of t...

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