Whenever I try to bid on something at the moment, I get a popup message titled "Problem with bid" that says: "Unfortunately, this item cannot be sent to United Kingdom. But don't give up just yet – find similar items offered by other sellers . (5010)" ...with an OK button to click to close it. Anyone else getting this?

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Ebay restricted my account, I don't know why. I received an email with the following: To help remove the restriction on your account, you will need to provide Proof of Employment by submitting one of the following: -- Letter of employment verification >> Must be on company letterhead, including your full name, company name *AND* address -- Recent paystub (must include your full name, company name and address) -- Tax record (must include your full name, company name and address) -- Letter of unemployment What's going on? I'm a buyer, not a seller! I'm from Brazil and it doesn't make sense to provide that kind of information.

I just lost out on an auction as every time I was trying to submit a bid I was getting an automated message saying the item wasn't eligible for Uk shipping. The seller was in Liverpool, the advert said shipping available for £ 3.50 and I am in Milton Keynes. It was very frustrating as this has never happened to me before. Is this a general problem any one else has experienced?

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I pride myself on taking my own photos and writing my own descriptions for the items I sell on ebay, as I think it builds buyer trust. However other sellers have started using my photos and descriptions when selling similar items. Do I have any comeback with ebay to stop them from doing this? If so how do I go about it? I am not happy to put hours of work into my listings only for someone else to steal them without asking. Thanks in advance, Jon.

I came back after a hiatus with a basic shop subscription and idea of listing near towards the 250 BIN limit. I managed 90 listings, 1 sale so at least my shop fee got covered. I’m already putting new listings on the backburner and doing other things. It takes too long to list here I could have got the 250 up elsewhere by now. My only sale got posted on Friday with Royal Mail and the tracking hasn’t moved from the Post Office so it is already running late. How do you stay motivated on here? I don’t tend to quit things but with eBay I get disheartened like no other platform. I’m considering using listing monster to blitz through listing as a solution to it. Any other ideas, what strategies do people have to break through it and keep going? I feel like listening to my gut sometimes and stop forcing it here when it is such an energy sapper.

I sold an item for about £45, purchased shipping via eBay, packaged it up with ample packaging material and a decent box. It arrived as if someone had jumped on it and was broken. The buyer sent photos and it was crushed when it was left by their door. I refunded the buyer their money but now cannot see how to claim against Evri for the damage. I submitted a claim to Evri directly but they are saying I have to go through eBay, meanwhile every time I try to search the help database eBay decides I am a bot and interrupts my search :( ARGH! Can anyone point me at what I should do?

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Hi all, INR received last week from a customer who got a bit p%^$y from the off as he needed the items urgently for an ongoing job, the items he bought were delivered by using ParcelForce 24 so should have got to him next day. I checked tracking and it said, "items refused on delivery", once the first day after sending them and then again, the day after, followed by "items returned to sender" I emailed the buyer and apologised and said items were delivered next day but tracking shows "items refused" did he or anyone in the household refuse delivery, which he said not. I had tracking proving delivery as well as tracking showing someone refused to take them, so I decided to try something. I then apologised again and offered to send out replacements that day, so he got the items next day for his project. I told him as I wanted to make sure 100% delivery would be made, I asked him to confirm his full address and phone number. What he sent was what I was expecting by now, a different address to the one on his eBay account for delivery., obviously he had moved and not updated his address, so the owner of his old house refused to take the parcel. I messaged him back and said the addresses don't match and after screenshotting his eBay page (encase he changed it) told him what the address was for delivery and if he recognised that address. No apology whatsoever when he must have realised straight away what he had done, just messaged me saying "That's ridiculous" I asked him again if he recognised the address to which he eventually said it’s an old address proving the items were delivered on time and this was 100% his fault by not updating his address. We’ve all met them in life, people who refuse to admit they’re ever wrong about anything so fearing a neg feedback I offered to send them out that day 24 hour using the new address he had provided. All I go in return was “Thanks”? Items delivered next day so I messaged him to confirm delivery and if he could now close the INR case the end date was near and I really didn’t want Ebay refunding him automatically making me over £100 out of pocket. Last day tomorrow for him to close the case and he’s not or even replied saying delivery has been made and a thank you, so can anyone help in how I can stop this refund before tomorrow please.   Thanks in advance