UK Seller News: April 2025
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Postage
EBay have changed the postage options for sellers. They are recommending Evri which everyone knows are the worst courier in the U.K. It is now impossible to select for instance Royal Mail large letter . I like to use Royal Mail directly through their...
Simple delivery
I can’t seem to get the Simple delivery option on my eBay selling site - I’ve had it previously?
Problems launching a sale event
I've tried a few times to launch a sale event to offer a few % off my items. Gone into marketing, discounts, create an event etc, exactly as the instructions said and ticked all 500+ of my items. Trouble is, once the sale goes live, it only seems to ...
Uploads drafts - revised condition IDs for clothing?
I make use of the uploads drafts feature. Prior to the change in clothing condition categories I had: NEW; NEW_OTHER; and USED. I was wondering if, following changes to the condition categories, I could directly reference the new categories of Pre-lo...
New combined invoice feature doesn’t work
tice the system has changed in relation to sending a combined invoice. Now it appears to have a separate page where all the orders eligible for combined invoice are displayed. Keep getting this error message no matter what I do in terms of clearing c...
Selling CE marked products
I work for a charity and eBay just sent us a request to supply documents for EC certification / Economic operators for one of our products. This product was a collection only item and not being sent abroad. I know that if selling abroad you have to a...
Chargeback Trauma !
I'm not posting to ask for help, rather sharing some hopefully positive advice. I sold a handful of rare books to a UK collector worth a four figure sum. I sent them Special Delivery in several parcels. I was chatting to the customer as the books wen...
Refund the Buyer page error
I'm trying to refund an international buyer for an item that couldn't be delivered. I received the item today after it spend a month abroad (deliver attempted, no answer). So I clicked on the three dots on the item order and selected Send Refund, ent...
Ebay not paying you
Ebays new policy's explained simply.Ebay is lying to you you not getting paid what you think it'll when you think. Ebay new policy you get paid after delivery.No you don't.. this is actually 48 hours after delivery and that's only if you use ebays ap...
Resolved! Do draft pages (made before setting "exclude postage locations") properly exclude postage locations?
Hi everyone. I'm new to EBAY - am still trying to get the hang on everything on the site (and I thought using Amazon was hard - sheesh!). Anyway, I've made over 30 draft listing pages (which I have saved for later only atm), but I recently discovered...
ebay keep changing the format for listings for the worse
ebay is now constantly changng the selling format. you are having to press 3 or 4 buttons to achieve the same thing you used to do for pressing once. the new postage price - you now have to press to edit and them put in your postage and press again i...
Seller Hub Changes
I do honestly wish the tinkering would stop.Today ‘Listings ending today’ has disappeared from the Overview listings panel.Only way to access is the Active Listings and the filter. Maybe it’s a Friday Morning thing….
Buyer protection added to the listing price
I find it really irritating to have all these odd prices flying around now - so when I set the price at £10 the buyer sees a price of £11.12 .One small thing ebay could do to help would be to allow me to set the price the buyer sees. At the moment I ...
Revising listing does not show Simple Delivery option for some of my listings
As per subject, does anyone has a solution to revising listings to use Simple Delivery? I have recent listings where that is possible but somehow older listing don't provide the same option. It is as if the revising form is older/different. Any sugge...
Getting paid when I sold my items on EBay
The labels provided by EBay did not cover the three boxes I sold so I paid for the delivery but cannot get the money from EBay as they do not think the items have arrived with the buyer last week?
