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...
"Mark as dispatched" - gone
As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...
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...
Message confusion
I sent a message to a buyer letting them know that delivery would be on XX in case they were waiting in for it. Sent the message & then followed 2 failed delivery attempts. I've just checked the message I sent & I'm not sure about the message below i...
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?
Be Aware Market Flooded with Counterfeit Stamps from China
If you buy postage for your business on eBay you will find an array of offers - pretty much all the bulk offers I have seen from sellers who are not stamp dealers are counterfeit. It is a criminal offence to sell them and a criminal offence to use th...
Posting items to the US
I am a littlte puzzled about the new situation with shipments to the USAI read on the news that many countries are suspending the shipments to the US, and this morning I read that ROYAL MAIL and DHL are following the trend.In the past few months I st...
Antiques are exempt from the new US tariff?
Can anyone who has sent an antique to the US confirm that antiques are still exempt from tariffs?Just tried a test post on Royal Mail's website for an antique map of German origin, and an antique map of UK origin, with the code 97060000, and it calcu...
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.
Sales on Ebay outstripped by Sales on Vinted
13 years I have been using my current ID/account on Ebay and never ever ever did I imagine writing this - SALES ON VINTED HAVE JUST OUTSRIPPED THOSE ON EBAY BUY 12 TO 1 - 24 sales on Vinted this month only 2 on Ebay even then last Ebay sale was Augus...
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.
"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...
Ebay simple delivery opt out
So ebay have decided to force private sellers to use simple delivery for all listings.Previously you could select advanced options in postage and select your preferred postage method as before.Did ebay announce this to private sellers - did they .......
STILL no SD Outsize parcel option
I can't believe eBay STILL hasn't put the large size item option in Simple Delivery. It is unbelievable. The NATIONAL MAX DIMENSION FOR EVRI IS ONE METRE. Did eBay actually negotiate a contract exclusively for smaller parcels? I'm beginning to think ...
Simple delivery What RUBBISH
Well..Like many a casual Ebay seller for years. Today listed my iPhone 15 and intended to sell the same and send by special delivery to who ever wins it... No way on this earth can I list it like that.. so I have simply added in the listing body of d...
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