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New issue with Simple Delivery 24/07/25

So, I have been using Simple Delivery - and honestly, I quite liked it. It was less bother for me, no booking couriers (I used to import to Evri) and I just print a label as each item sells. As I understood it, even if the parcel is overweight, the s...

No orders after "high value" order.

Does anyone experience drop in views and sales after "valuable" order? For example, I am selling low value stuff, but as soon, as "value " sale arrive, next week is disaster, as it feels like a ghost town? For 4 years of my business it is apparently ...

Upcoming fee reductions for private sellers ... but anything for business sellers?

Great to see upcoming buyers fee reductions for 'private' sellers (£0.75 to £0.10 for listings under £20) ... but sadly this will mean business sellers selling low value items under £20 (myself included) will be another £0.60 out of pocket on small i...

Getting a bit sick of this over charged postage.

The last few months I've been buying from ebay quite frequenty. On some small items I've bought the postage has been set on the listing at £3.20 (Second Class Small Parcel). When the items arrive they have been sent as a Large Letter for £0.96p. I do...

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.

Resolved! Buying a second label - advice please

I didn't have access to the car today so had a Royal Mail collection booked. They have failed to turn up which is unusual for themThe trouble is the buyer needed the item before the w/e so I'm happy to purchase another label - this time First Class.I...

Resolved! Formal Complaint regarding Interference in Listings via Simply Delivery

eBay, why are you interfering in my listings without my express permission, I didn't ask for simply delivery on my listings? Stop Doing It! You've resulted in completely wiping out one of my listings to relist because of you idiotic delivery option. ...

Marking an item as dispatched

Have successfully used eBay for many many years, and have always posted via Royal Mail and done my own labelling. Sent an item the same way a few days ago and cannot find any way of marking the item as “dispatched”, so ebay keeps saying the item is o...

I've refused to refund a buyer for the first time ever

I joined eBay in 2003. Since then, I have bought and sold items and sent stuff all over the world. A while back, I bought a full centre console from a W222 Mercedes S Class, as I wanted to try something with my car. It didn't work out so as the conso...

Maximum box size now 61cm under simple delivery?

I have just had to cancel two listings for ikea prints as to safely package would have required a box/package ca 75 x75cm. After searching listing page the MAX size under royal mail is now capped at medium package 61cm so these would have been reject...

Are sellers being overcharged for SD postage labels ?

Sold an item to a UK address this morning with free post offered in the listing, so expected to pay £2.72 for large letter label. When checking payment details I noticed that I had been charged £3.46 ( Small Parcel rate). Listing quoted large letter ...

Virtuous Circle or Death Spiral?

Anyone who's had to prepare a 'proper' business plan that potential external investors will use as a basis for making an investment decision, will likely have heard of the 'Virtuous Circle', in simple terms it's things in the plan that feed off each ...

Receiving payment - rule change

I have received an email from Ebay stating that from Aug 6th I will now be paid for any sales 24 hrs after payment is recd from buyer. Am I reading this correctly? Can we spend those funds or transfer to bank account?So after all the fuss and palaver...

Private sellers getting little interest from buyers?

What's going on with eBay? I have excess stuff - luckily most of it I've gotten rid of over the past couple of years, I still have a bit more to go, mix of used & new items.I've noticed though that some of my things get 0/low views and then when I ch...

Very slow delivery times since the changes on Feb 4th.

Anyone else noticing this?...before the changes were brought in i'd order something and it would be on my doorstep within 2-5 days max...now seem to be waiting well over a week for pretty much everything. Are sellers thinking "soddit,if i've got to w...

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