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...
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...
Is there a Retention Team for Top Rated Sellers? Frustrated with fees vs. support.
I have reached a point where I find maintaining a Business Account and paying for Store Subscriptions increasingly pointless. As a Top Rated Seller, I am paying thousands in fees, but I’m left wondering: for what?Lately, I’ve experienced a significan...
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...
Tracked 48 Royal mail parcels not being delivered
Had two buyers message me this morning saying they hadnt received their item. I checked tracking and one is stuck on 'accepted at parcelshop' for day and the other showing 'in transit' for the past 5 days! Anyone else experiencing none delivery of tr...
What's this about Age Verification?
I don't sell alcohol, guns or pornography so what do I need Age Verification for? It just seems another money grab! £12-£24 per item for what?
Resolved! Second Chance Offer Visible to other bidders even though sent to one only ?
I have never made a second chance offer before now. A recent auction ended in a non payer and was cancelled after 4 days, hopefully registering a defect against the non payer.I selected what looked like the most sensible bidder and sent them a second...
Ebay and their unrealistic delivery dates
The timeline is as follows:29 April 5.04pm: Buyer purchases a Christmas Card kit and selects second class postage. We have a dispatch date set of within 2 days.30 April Item posted (marked as posted 1 May)3 May 7am (Sunday) Buyer raised and item not ...
Resolved! How are sellers handling US tariffs
Since tariffs were introduced I've stopped selling to the USA but would like to start again.I'd like to know how other sellers are incorporating the tariffs into their prices solely for the US?I can't add it into my shipping as there are too many var...
A question for car parts sellers - eBay's latest advert
Just seen the latest eBay advert on TV.Says quite clearly Buy your car parts direct from the manufacturer Not the re-seller, not from an authorised dealership. Not even cutting out the middleman and buying from a wholesaler / importer. But no, you ca...
New postage policy nonsense
What is this new postage policy nonsense. I set up one of my more expensive items with free postage, not realising that it changed all my items to free postage.Luckily I had only sold one item before I realised what had happened.Ebay please put it ba...
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...
If you have many listings beware this message to Complete a Draft
I saw this today so I clicked the link and completed the draft only to later on notice that I had completed the draft on the 1st of May so now had a double listing. I contacted Help to claim a refund for a listing I would have two of which is against...
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?
Lack of Sales
I have posted this before but things have got considerably worse. I have sold on E bay for 20 years as a professional seller with a shop. Over the last year we have seen our order volume decrease from approximately 7 orders per day to about 3 per wee...
GameStop offers to buy eBay
Just read an interesting article on the BBC. Looks like the investors like the idea. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
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