Seller News: August 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...
Why do Corporations Allow Critical Forums
I asked my mate Copilot and he said:Great question—and it’s a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? You’d think corporations would avoid spaces where they’re publicly roasted, but there’s actually a strategic logic behind it. Here’s why they often host or tole...
Resolved! Simple Delivery
Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage
A question; perhaps someone can answer.
To summarise: A couple of days ago (22nd August) I had an INR case opened against me. The buyer is in Denmark and the shipping address was the eBay UK GSP shipping hub. Product shipped on 21st July, in reality the 22nd July (the 21st is a Sunday, the...
NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY
AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.
Simple delivery is making life really hard for me.. Anyone else finding this? It is this seller
Several times now eBay's now compulsory "Simple" Delivery hasn't allowed me to sell in a way that is convenient for me. Won't let me use the service I want, and the collection options are less flexible than royal mail. Anyone else feel like this?
Where has 'Reply with offer' gone?
I received a cheeky messaege with an offer, and it was a little low Went to click reply with offer and its not there, Desktop and App Has it been removed? How do we create sales with communication/messagiing system?
Shipping to USA
Could somebody please tell me when this might be made possible? The item I'm wanting to send is a t-shirt.
"Simple delivery" large items - 1.1 stars on Trustpilot
Title says it all. If you sell an oversize item on "Simple" delivery, you have to use DHL eCommerce. Their Trustpilot rating is 1.1 (on a scale from 1 to 5) with over 600 reviews.
Sales to USA after August 29th - Tariffs / End of de minimis
I asked about this in the weekly chat, specifically whether ebay are alerting US buyers to the fact that they will shortly have to pay duty on anything delivered from outside the US and marco@ebay helpfully later posted this link showing that there i...
Help! I Need to Stop the Continuous Promotion of My Listing
Please help!I must have missed setting an end date for a listing I promoted, and it has been running continuously since then. I have only sold one item, and all the money from this sale has been lost to eBay's promotion. How do I stop this promotion?
Payments withheld the second I become a business account
The stakeholder information in the company document provided does not match your eBay account. Review your stakeholder information and update your account with the correct details. Everytime I submit my companies house details I get this message. the...
Items not showing true price when item clicked on.
Any one having this problem. My items page show the gallery pic, amount of bids and the current price. If I click on an item, the item shows the correct amount of bids but the price is the starting bid, not the current price. I have 3 items finishing...
"Simple" delivery of large items - what a fail - forced to wait at home for a whole day.
So having sold a large item (plastic wall cladding sheets, about 1kg, but 1 metre long) I had the joy of "simple" delivery to content with. Only option for the size was the large size, which it turns out is DHL collecting it. No option to drop off, h...
Buyers receiving empty boxes? New Scam?
So these are all simple delivery parcels however I have had 3 people saying that the parcel is empty. Because it's simple delivery it is dealt with by eBay but is this a new scam exploiting simple delivery? And at what point will this possibly impact...
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