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...
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 ...
New 2026 system based eBay restriction: requires you to close all returns, including remorse returns
"Take action now to avoid restrictions on your account" Anyone had one of these recently? I assumed it was the usual periodic review but it looks to be a new thing. Or a new format. My payouts are still working fine, and items still for sale. It look...
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?
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...
Resolved! 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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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...
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