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...
China
Another forwarder scam. Had this a few years ago, item sold and then I looked up the address. Discovered it was near where I grew up and discovered they were using a forwarding company. But this forwarding company no longer existed at the address. Th...
Resolved! EBay asking for national insurance number
Hi everyone, I recently joined for like 1 month and I start selling as a private seller , and now eBay is asking me to provide national insurance number."New UK digital sales reporting legislation requires sellers with 30 or more sales, or who have s...
Simple delivery glitch
Went to print off a label for a small parcel. It is not a small parcel label but standard delivery which is not the same. It cost large letter tracked amount and not small parcel tracked. I have been on the phone for thirty minutes trying to convince...
Resolved! Simple Delivery more expensive for letters & large letters
With custom postage being rolled out and eventually the only option, I am a little confused and trying to clarify something please. If I am posting something of large letter size, less than 100 grams and low value - a DVD in it's case for example, I ...
Simple delivery . problems with delivery to Northern Ireland?
hows this for interesting?Potential buyer in Northern Ireland contacted me to say that he had tried to purchase item from me ,but got message saying and i quote buyer : ' Unfortunately this seller won't send items to United Kingdom'.The item was a ga...
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.
New Rule - eBay to hold sellers funds for 14 days
Effective February 2025, ebay will hold private sellers funds for 14 days if the order is posted with an un-tracked delivery service (such as Royal Mail 2nd Class). I think it's a brilliant idea if they want private sellers to leave the platform in t...
What The Hell Is The International Fee For Private Sellers?
I admit I must have been living under a rock or something, but I was under the impression that when eBay 1) Removed fees for private sellers and 2) Brought in the "Buyer Protection Fee" to try and claw some of this back. But the justification was alw...
Unable to process return due to ebay not providing a label and unable to buy a return label
Sold an item and the buyer collected it. They said was happy with it and a few days later they said it's faulty. I had a replacement so I tested it and swapped it with them. They replied back on ebay a few days later and said it has the same fault bu...
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...
Evri Bristol
Be warned. Evri Bristol improved for a while by contracting e-bike couriers. They cancelled this contract to save money in exchange for Indians driving barely road legal hatchback bangers. Needless to say, I've not recieved any of the last almost 10 ...
Royal Mail and DHL suspending deliveries to USA
For info, I've just seen this article on the BBC. I've posted this on both the Postage and Business Seller threads and thought it might also be worth posting here:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p17xypgko
Funds on hold - item delivered and good feedback received
I started selling on ebay a couple of months ago after being a buyer for quite a few years. I got off to a good start selling some motorcycle / mtb parts.All was going well, until my last 2 items were sold and ebay are now withholding my funds.Both i...
Why cant we change the size of items on Simply Delivery?
The complete untested or sandboxing shambles of "Simply Delivery" continue...... I've watched YouTube videos, and it appears eBay has remove the "custom set sizing" option for packages. So all you can do is increase the weight if it gets the size wro...
Simple Delivery Nightmare
This is more of an experience piece rather than a question or something I need support with- I have a handful of listings on the site and one sold yesterday that I hadn't revised so on the listing it still displayed the standard price for a small RM ...
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