Business Seller Board

Royal Mail: updated delivery restrictions & packaging requirements for bladed items

Royal Mail has added delivery restrictions and packaging requirements to bladed items and sharp or pointed objects which will be in force from 7 May 2024. If you are posting bladed items such as cutlery knives that you have sold on eBay via Royal Mai...

Sending to EU, Biz Seller, Not VAT reg and EORI Numbers?

Hi there, I'm a non VAT registered biz seller who stopped 95% of our EU trading when EORI numbers came in and our returned parcels shot up. However I would like to get it right on our remaining sales if anyone can help? Firstly eBay collects VAT on s...

Resolved! How do you turn off pre approved payments for offers?

I am trying to find the setting to turn off pre approved payments for my buyers that have make an offer. I am not sure why ebay put this new hurdle in the way of buyers as we trust them to pay for auctions and when they click buy it now. Either way, ...

Sales Downfall in March 2024

I wonder if anyone else noticed a sudden downfall in sales. Sales are non existent in March however January and February were reasonabley good months. Please share your thoughts!

eBay's false estimated delivery dates, now several messages from buyers not happy.

I have been going on about this issue like a broken record. I have reported it several times and even been on the community chat several times. Ebay claim the EDD's are working fine. They are not. Ebay are giving buyers delivery dates as same day del...

No sales

What is going on at eBay? No sales, no offers no response to offers, last sale 15 hours ago and counting. I sell worldwide, all listings promoted, TRS, eBay premium service, fast and free, NO SALES. Everything's collapsed since mid march/early April....

eBay is dead

So looking back over my last 7 days of sales on eBay, I have the following numbers 12th - £1137.8713th - £246.9314th - £301.9415th - £331.9216th - £1016.4017th - £696.6018th - £552.38 and today big fat 0 I'm sure the lack of sales is doen to eBay hid...

How many sellers are closing their shops or running down their account in 2024?

We have been a seller on here over a couple of our accounts for many years now. Over this time we have seen a reduction in sales from a max of £13k pcm to £60 pcm. We have been through mass seller culls, more and more control over the seller/buyer re...

Resolved! Ebay via YOULEND - anyone got any pros and cons

Hi All, I hope sales are good! Today we received a generous offer from eBay Capital that would be enough to rent a unit for a year. I believe that you pay a daily percentage of sales. The previous similar type of loans via P-pay were very straightfor...

No Fees for selling Clothing?

So Ebay has abolished all fees for selling clothing on a private account. Now more than ever surely the clamping down of businesses operating from private accounts has to increase? I feel so sorry for those in this niche who trade legitimately as bus...

Duplicated listings

I have just discovered 50 duplicated listings on my account. The offending items were all listed on the same day and time as its duplicated counterpart. Now I'm 100% certain that I did not list all these identical items twice at exactly the same time...

11p added to BIN sales

We have noticed that some of our Buy It Now sales have 11p added to the total sale price, which the buyer pays. We are a charity and this has just started happening in the last couple of weeks randomly. For example, I listed a BIN item yesterday for ...

Estimated delivery dates (yes again)

I know this has been done to death and eBay staff just repeat the 'working as intended' mantra but this simply can't be right. I bought something from a seller I get supplies from more than a week ago and it's still not arrived. I realise delays are ...

Ebay Commerce UK LTD ....

New update. All our payments come from this now. It is regulated by the FCA. Just highlighting this fact.

A bit unfair ?

I recently sold an item.When the buyer got it they werent happy with it so did a return.I got the item back and promptly refunded the buyer. I then did a search for cheapest items like mine.It no longer showed up in a cheapest search yet all my other...