Ebay, auctions, car boot sales, post & parcels

Hello, my wife bought a coat online from a retailer in Scotland for about £120. The colour was not quite what she wanted so she chose to return it. Here is the retailer's return policy. I have removed the retailer's name as they are not at fault. My wife chose Evri and paid £3.95. I do not know if that includes any…

Intrigued how views on listings are really calculated . Had it on a few occasions where I have more watchers than views. Wondering how you can watch an item without viewing 

Sold a low value heavy item, Buyer paid paypal, i semt my address, he came and took it away but I don't seem to have any option to make it as dispatched without entering the code (which I didn't ask the buyer for) Ebay is nagging me as "dispatch is overdue" and clicking on the item doesn't give me any other option apart…

Hello, I am in a similar position where my account was hacked and the account was used to sell 13 iPhones, all of the same devices, products, pictures. The picture only showed a library photo, not a physical one of the item. The hacker had managed to get into my bank details of my account, and had changed the payment…

Some of my Royal Mail packages that are en route now show the following message when I check the tracking on ebay - I've never seen this before. I wonder if this the start of the Christmas rush and the overall slow down of deliveries, or just an indication that not everyone is getting post every day anymore? ~~~~~ It's on…

A few weeks back, I accidentally sent two sets of guitar tuners to the same person due to printing out the same shipping label twice a couple of days apart . I've reached out to the recipient to retrieve the wrongly sent package but they refuse unless I offer a discount on another set I'm selling. I have offered to send…

I've been selling for a few weeks the vast collection of childrens soft toys we had accumulated.Now I've been grouping them into groups of 3 or 4 of a similar nature and list them in batches because of the time involved. I've had a few occasions where the same person has bought 5 or 6 of these groups and of course I reduce…

I keep getting messages from ebay saying: ACTION NEEDED: Please update the information we requested Your payouts are on hold until you update your account details. Please update by 30 Nov, 2023 to avoid further restrictions. I click on the link to update my account details, and it takes me to a page showing my correct…

Hi All, I have been having issues with eBay for a few weeks. Basically I wanted to buy a number of items from a seller who was going to offer combined postage to me. When I put in the offers the payments were automatically taken as individual lots rather than as one invoiced payment. The seller was then unhappy with me as…

https://send.royalmail.com/ Is anybody else seeing this problem please? Although you can enter the address manually on the next section the site won't let you book a collection as it can't verify the collection address. Had to purchase a label via eBay yesterday and that worked with a collection but I don't like their…

A while ago I bookmarked a link that would automatically do a search on eBay for local collection only items. I think it was called 'local bargain finder' Occasionally it wouldn't work, or say there were no items meeting the criteria. But now the link doesn't work at all. Anyone know of an alternative tool I could use…

I am trying to look at order history but it is not letting me (on desktop computer) On the app, again nothing happens

I'm sure my area isn't alone in not having post delivered for days on end. We've been told that RM have issued the instruction that all posties concentrate on parcels as RM make more money from that and to ignore the day to day post stacking up. I know several people who have missed deadlines / appointments because time…

I posted a letter 1st Class last Thursday knowing it probably would not arrive on the Friday or Saturday but hoping it would get there on the Monday. It was just a normal letter and it has still not arrived. Is ages since I last sent something by post so wondered if its become the norm for it to take this long. Its going…

Hello, I've just bought a 'new' purse from an ebay seller, and it smells very strongly of cigarettes. My friend was here and confirmed she could also smell it. I contacted the seller who had stated 'no returns'. She said I could try a return request. I tried twice and it is blocked. I also tried an ebay request, that is…

Has anyone used what3words? I have a problem in that my parcels are being regulary left at a neighbouring property that is a holiday home and I was wondering if what3words would be helpful. Can it be added to Paypal address? Many thanks for any help

In the past week or two I've noticed the number of overseas sellers has increased significantly. I've also had a fair proportion of buyers using GSP but these current buyers have been the old fashioned 'send to a shipping company at Heathrow' type, I'd stopped getting these in the past year or so. I've had about 1 in 4 or…

I saw that this subforum also lists post and parcels however it was unclear whether it means post and parcels pertaining to online selling only or if general post and parcel queries go here too. So posting here and please let me know if the former is the case rather than the latter. I want a specialist keyboard which is…

I sell a few things every week on marketplace and I get the same obvious scammers messages on high value items, they want to pay by bank transfer or PayPal followed by some elaborate instructions about collection written in bad Englush, I don't see what their plan is, get a refund from PayPal? But bank transfer won't do…

I sell the odd item on eBay and I've noticed I can print postage labels at home. Is this usually a good deal compared to queueing at the post office? If so, which home label printers do you use?