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End of private sellers

I have been an ebay user since 2003.both as a buyer and seller,but it seems that my days of selling are now over thanks to the recent ridiculous buyer protection tax on buyers which make it almost impossible to sell low value items.And now they are r...

Selling expensive item to 0 feedback person

Hello I am selling a laptop and have today accepted an offer on it. However the buyer is now sending me weird messages late at night in broken English, and asking for videos etc even after they’ve paid. They asked for a detailed video of it working a...

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Resolved! VAT on orders with Simple Delivery

I'm noticing that orders with Simple Delivery are now also showing a VAT deduction. Is this new? For exampleSubtotal£19.50Buyer Protection fee£1.25Postage*£3.56VAT*£0.71Order total**£25.02

Ebay Buyer Protection

Hi - Message from Buyer to say an item hasn’t arrived - only just let us know. We have proof of posting, so can refund - However who refunds the Ebay Buyer Protection, how do they claim that back - Thanks for any info.

Simple delivery - not!

I am very annoyed with this 'simple delivery '95% of the time I use Royal Mail as I arrange collection & this suits me. I dont have a local Evri & the closest opens 9am to 4pm so useless if you work. If I do have something larger to sell then I get E...

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Some recent weird stuff

Ok, these have all happened in the last week and are rather odd. eBay told me I was winning an auction (I was watching), it was lit in green up to and after the auction ended. I never bid once on it. I checked my ended auctions it still showed me as ...

Thread for sellers' experiences of Simple Delivery and if only their chosen carrier is actually used

Yes, I know there are a lot of Simple Delivery threads but I imagine this one will be helpful for others too. I'm holding off listing any more items and taking existing ones down tomorrow as there's no way that I want to use Evri. I asked earlier thi...

Tracking number

I have just sold an item. So I go to the item on the app (iPhone) only to find the buyers address is nowhere to be found just a message saying the address will be on the postage lable I don't use postage through eBay because the amount is always wron...

Scam Buyer

So I sold a pair of jeans..put wrong leg length..when buyer recieved he told me this and asked what I was going to do..I stupidly gave refund without him opening a case and provided him with a ROYAL MAIL QR code to return them..he is now refusing to ...

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.

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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...

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...

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