Seller News: November 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...
ebay playing silly games with categories to stop Custom Postage opt-out and force Simple Delivery?
The published link for Simple Delivery opt-out is below. This implies that if the value is under a tenner and large letter is used, there are lots of categories where it applies, but in reality, I have only been able to get Custom Postage to pop up a...
Simple Delivery not offering Collect from home
After being forced to use Simple Delivery I now find that there is no option to have my parcel collected from home. I am using Royal Mail who have always offered this option. On the Simple Delivery help page it says this IS an option but it did not a...
Postage error query?
So I have just bought two postage labels through Ebay for Large letter up to 100g, cost £1.55. Cost for P&P was listed as £2.35 and this is what the buyer paid. However Ebay has deducted £3.35 from my order earnings. I have realised that when setting...
Listing form updated to allow you to set price including BPF
I noticed this positive development today in the listing form - there are now two form fields to allow you to set the amount you want to receive OR the price the buyer sees including BPF: If you try and set some prices it will round it down, for exam...
R.I.P EBay Well done congratulations on destroying a once great idea.
I thought I would just congratulate EBay on totally destroying their selling platform for basic private sellers coming on here to sell odd items and also buy. When they went of down the route of self destruction I wanted no part of their ridiculous c...
SIMPLE DELIVERY - ABSOLUTE JOKE
Perhaps everyone would like to start a similar post ? If forum gets flooded with new topics all saying this system is a joke, just maybe someone will notice.
Incognito
how do i stop members/competitors from viewing all my sold listings...
Evri, wrong parcel, delivered
I bought an item of a seller, she sent it by Evri on the 29th and was meant to be here on the 31st as I and my wife was working I thought it best to send to parcel shop, for four days I had Evri notification my parcel would be delivered and nothing, ...
Combined postage
Someone wants to buy two items from me and asking whether postage will be combined. I’m happy to do this but will Simple Delivery do this automatically? If not, how can I help the customer?
Buyer telling me the system is not accepting his payment because I don't ship to his location?
Hi All,I created a listing with the Global Shipping option turned on. A buyer sent me an offer which I accepted. He has been a bit slow with payment but has just messaged me saying his payment is not being accepted as I don't ship to his location? (h...
Struggling to sell
Hi all! just wondering if anyone had any tips, or if anyone had any advice on my listings etc to help? ive queued 5-10 items a day to auto post in hopes consistency helps. Thanks!
Simple Delivery STILL forcing itself on EXEMPT LETTERS & OUTSIZE parcels
Many many complaints about this since before 17 July 2025. on 18 July 2025 ebay admitted it was "a known problem". Still no proper fix as ebay refuse to acknowledge the problem is their fault. CS offer "work-around" fix of changing the value of the i...
Resolved! Final value fee
Hi everyone. I wanted to list an item for a buy it now of £15000.00 I have done a final value ebay fee and it works out around an astonishing £940.00 Is my calculation incorrect anyone? TIA
Used a RM parcel postbox but no proof of postage
After the weekends 48 hour tracked glitch I resorted to using a Royal Mail parcel postbox to post 3 parcels all with eBay generated labels. Didn’t really think it through because I have no proof of postage. Checked the RM app this morning and two par...
Resolved! eBay charging my buyers, buyer protection fee + VAT - Private Seller
Hi I’m a private seller and have just started noticing (my last two sales) buyers have been charged the buyer protection free plus a separate VAT charge. Never happened before. The last sale was for £19.99 and buyer was charged £1.47 buyer protection...
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