Seller News: May 2026
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Secure Your Ticket - Business Roadshow Nottingham
The eBay Business Roadshow is heading to Nottingham — and the energy is building. As the third stop on our UK tour, we’re bringing the momentum straight to you for a high-impact, hands-on day designed to help you move your business forward with confi...
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...
Packlink fraudulent claims need a mass reporting to eBay
Hi all, For many years, I have only used Royal Mail as they are still the most reliable courier.Recently however, I have used Evri through ebay for cheaper items as I am trying to reduce my extortionate outgoings!I have now had 2 claims from Packlink...
eBay forcing car parts sellers to pay for return labels for 'change of mind'. This might be the end
I've seen some garbage in my 24 years on eBay but this might actually mean us removing all sub £50 itemsThey're FORCING us car parts sellers to pay for return labels for 'changed mind' or 'doesn't fit' from early June onwardsThis is to 'drive buyer t...
Buyer lost an INR case but has now created a return request on the item they claim never arrived.
HIya, guys and gals. Had a buyer open an item not received case which they lost because the uploaded tracking showed delivery by Royal Mail with a picture of the postman standing at their front door. They have now opened a return request via Ebay wit...
Very low item views?
Hi all Is there a fault today that is affecting items views? Mine are showing an extremely low number today. Anyone else noticed this?
HMRC have advised us that your seller account belongs to a trader based outside the UK
Has anyone else had this communication today regarding VAT collection? Obviously it's wrong, I am based in the UK, VAT registered in the UK. I am just wondering if this is another eBay miscommunication/misunderstanding/glitch or whether it's true, an...
Complete overnight drop off since 2nd March
Hi all, I wouldn't usually start a topic, but the instant drop off in impressions, listing views and sales has become alarming, so much so I wondered if anyone has had a similar experience. The last 90 days prior to March 2nd had been good, steady bu...
Age verification for toothpicks
EBay took of my toothpick listing and said it needed age verification
Questions to Answer which don't exist.
I've spent ten minutes trying to locate a question I need to answer and I conclude that it doesn't exist. It is a figment of eBay's software which isn't updating pages quickly enough or at all. If Game Stop are still wanting to buy eBay, they need to...
Resolved! Frustration.
I'm going around in circles trying to solve an issue with multiple eBay call backs and simply getting nowhere.Is there a way to get past the representative level and on to a higher level?
In my Ebay store all my items prices have mysteriously gone up at least 20% !!
I'll spare you all about the 5 times Ive contacted Ebay with no joy about this, other that to say I'd only noticed this unauthourized price increase late on the eve of the 14th of May. Right across my 500+ items the prices have 'strangely' increase e...
The GOAT is no more
Been here over 15 years as a business seller and never thought this would happen. Never thought I'd be complaining about about lack of sales and views. These boards have always been full of of sellers complaining about slow trade on ebay but I've nev...
Bladed items
HiEbay is throttling sellers with this policy which is just crazy. es I understand that knives, axes etc should be restricted BUT scissors even round nose craft scissors, tweezers, nearly all garden products like trimmers, nail clippers, wire cutters...
Royal Mail Large Letter £1.55
Hi, I have been listing thin books under 1kg for a while and always used Royal Mail large letter £1.55 but i can no longer see the custom button to cutomise the postage down from simple delivery £2.94. Charging this higher postage fee has reduced the...
Sales email title being truncated
Since 14th May, Ebay have started truncating the title of my sales emails so it only shows the first 50 characters of the Ebay item title. This has happened before with Ebay a while ago. It means that most of my sold item titles are now cut off like ...
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