Seller News: May 2025
Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimisation.
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The eBay for Business Awards are back for 2025 – enter for the chance to win £10,000!
Are you a business owner with a story to tell? The eBay for Business Awards are back for 2025 – and this could be your time to shine. With £10,000 up for grabs, plus a business support package, it’s time to show what your business is made of. Read on...
No advertising NO sales is Ebay POLICY now !
Sales are less than half compared to last year Ebay wants us to pay for advertising, when we are already paying shop fees, final value fees , and transaction fees ! If yoy don't promote theres no sales Also they are bieng very cheeky and don't show t...
Cannot sell items to America due to high tariffs.
Hi,I accepted some offers on a range of books last night, but the buyer from America informed me that they were unable to check out and buy them using the GSP.I spoke to an Ebay rep this morning, who informed me that I am unable to sell to the US at ...
Estimated Delivery Dates - Incorrect
Just noticed that one of my listings has Next Day Delivery against it (from a Buyer's perspective.)I don't offer this service up front, so I checked behind the scenes. My postage options under my business polices are set up correctly, i.e.- dispatch ...
Resolved! How can I remove defects please.
At christmas I had a power outage for 3 days and had to cancelled a few orders due to not being able to bake the items.Are these the defects that have made my account below standard?
Promoted Listings Changes - You Must Be Joking, eBay
Email from eBay this morning. If I read it correctly, from 24th June, if you use promoted listings and ANYBODY clicks on the ad one time...if the item then sells to ANYBODY ELSE within the next 30 days, you get charged as if the first guy bought it.T...
RM / eBay tracking is horribly broken. Reporting delivered when I only posted today.
Sold about 20 items over the weekend. RM collected all the items today and RM tracking says: COLLECTED: Today at 3:10pm However looking at the status of all the items under my selling portal they all say delivered today. Delivered on 27 MayGreat. You...
February Sales Dead 2025 - Ebay Sales Completely Dead
Any thoughts as why would suddenly ebay sales would do ZERO since start of February. We have been closely monitoring our sales and since start of January 2025 sales are down. But they have now completely died as soon as February started.
Royal Mail have stopped free collections from home.
I haven’t been doing my postage today for items sold over the weekend and notice that Royal Mail have very sneakily introduced a charge of 30p per parcel for a home collection. Has anyone else noticed this. I must have had my head under a rock for a ...
Business seller with Private account eBay doing nothing
I'm fed up with eBay, I pay in excess of £2500 amonth in FVFs and have to compete with this seller who has a professional looking template selling product on a Private account but is clearly a Business seller I have pulled them up to eBay several tim...
Not all my active listings can be seen in my shop and Ebay can't tell me why
In my seller hub I have 884 listings but in my shop search bar it says "search all 854 listings" so 30 can't be seen by potential buyers. This has gone on for weeks , numbers change a little. I've rang Ebay and they emailed technical to see why , as ...
Today`s You-tube tip. Embrace the mistakes
A handy tip for those who have started you-tube product videos , or thinking about starting is to embrace the mistakes. Don`t hide them and re-take.(unless you use some x-rated language) Guess this is more for those like me who put themselves in fron...
International Shipping Rate Tables not working
I'm trying to list some comics this morning and I can't get my international rate tables to apply. I select add International Postage, select my rate table and yet when I start the listing it doesn't have the international shipping options on it. Is ...
Automated send offers. How long has this been a thing?
HiI just noticed last night that Ebay has added a new feature in the marketing section titled "offers". I've been wondering for the past month why I don't seem to be getting the ability to send offers on items with numerous watchers. Obviously I've f...
Resolved! 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...
Concern Over New Attributed Sale Fee Rule (Effective 24 June 2025)
dave@ebay kat@ebay marco@ebay I’m writing as a UK small business seller regarding the upcoming change to attributed sale rules under general campaigns. Given that the 30-day click attribution window reaches back before the formal effective date (24 J...
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