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Another Nail in the coffin - thanks Royal Mail

After over 20 years of trading on Ebay, I am finally starting to lose the will to fight. Ive jumped through hoop after hoop and seen a decline of over 50% in the last couple of years. After increasing my prices to cover Royal Mails ridiculous hike in...

Fraudulent customer

Hi all, Just wanted to pick your brains for help. I sold a gold Bullion bar (bought direct from the refiner, been using them for over 10 years), it was posted via Royal Mail special delivery the next day. The buyer received it, opened the tamper proo...

Ebay Sales Completed Dead January 2025

We are a business seller with most of our listing on other platforms. However we still have big chunk of our listings on Ebay platform. Ebay has been dead for us for over few months. Sales reach minimum 1-2 per day out of 100s of listings. What has g...

Will Trump's Tariffs impact eBay UK to US sales?

I'm thinking of secondhand articles not new-to-market. If I were to sell an Art Deco Czech glass vase to the US, would the applicable tariff be that for Czechia where it was made ninety years ago or the UK tariff as I am in the UK? Would eBay add the...

Resolved! Reopening shop middle of the month fees

Hello, Does anybody know please what sort of charges to expect if I reopened my shop middle of the month on a basic subcription.Would I pay part of the month until the 1st May or a full month?

Ideas to make ebay great again

So ive been thinking of ideas to make ebay great again so we all stay and grow with ebay and so we will all want to promote ebay to others as a great place to buy and sell rather than looking for and recommending alternative selling sites. As the con...

Customs codes for Overseas sendings

Hello everyone I have come out of Ebay Global as it just hasn`t worked. Normally no problems picking up Customs codes to insert on sendings to many European Countries but Austria seems to be problematical. I have a large package to go to Austria yet ...

unable to change from private to business

Hi, I'm trying to change my account from personal to business and it's not allowing me to do it. Managed to change bank account to business one and also managed to add my VAT number, but it's not allowing me to change ebay account to business, when I...

No other postage option other than eBay delivery powered by DPD its expensive and putting buyers off

I have been into my settings and looked at all postage options. All internation and business is swtiched off.I cannot change the postage from; eBay delivery powered by DPD eBay delivery powered by DPD. NO other option, I am not posting overseas. Its ...

Resolved! Ebay insisting I register for VAT even though my 12 month turnover is < 90K

Hi has anyone else had this problem? I have been informed by Ebay that I must register for VAT or my sales will be stopped, even though my 12 month turnover is WELL UNDER 90K. It's only just over 90K when you include returns. I have a 20% return rate...

Vat Number Required but under threshold

Hi all, Last year in May 2023 I received an email from eBay telling me I needed to provide a VAT number as I'd breached the £85,000 threshold and if I didn't I would have my account restricted. Following a long 4 months I managed to have HMRC grant m...

Turn in to Business account

Hello guys, i have a question that i can see the answer, i want to turn my private account, in to business account. But i dont have HMRCWhen me open the Business account do i need to do Anything after that? UC or HMRC ( Take in mine i dont think i wi...

And which genius decided to delete the picking list option from ebay

Once again here we go, the office boys in ebay have decided to take a perfectly good system, and get rid of it. There is NO picking list option, which means if I have 5 orders separately from the same buyer, I have to manually find them from the list...

Quitting - just yoo stoopid!

I Quit!! It's been over 16 long years that I have been buying and selling on eBay (as a private seller) ~ until recently, I actually had a demanding career too.I'e been legally blind since the age of 6, am severely disabled and at 53 years old, i am ...