Seller News: October 2025
Read the latest updates to streamline your selling experience.
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Up & Running Grants: apply now for the chance to receive £10,000 to fuel your business growth
We’re excited to announce that for the very first time, Up & Running Grants are launching in the UK - giving 25 eBay business sellers the chance to take their business to the next level. Each successful applicant will receive: £10,000 cash grant to i...
Brazil, incorrect documentation.
Item sent via Royal Mail so everything should have been correct. I rarely get a foreign sale so now stopped using international postage or global shipping. I also no longer buy from abroad.If they can stop my sales I can stop my buys too.
Has Ebay has killed the UK antiques market to the US ?
I am sure you will all agree that antiques and collectables that are over 100 years ago form a massive part of sales on ebay from the UK to the US.Since the introduction of tariffs we have seen a massive decline in sales of our antique photographs to...
Resolved! Clarification please re: holding back postage at buyer's request
Hi all, Quick query (not sure if I'm having a blonde moment here), but if I delay postage at buyer's request, do I automatically get a defect? If I do it, is it best to mark as dispatched within my usual time frame (and explain to the buyer), or not ...
snake skin compact
I received a used snake skin zipped compact in a saleroom job lot, its possibly made from a cobra skin. It looks like its against Ebay policy to list and sell it.But it looks like there have been scores of snake skin items that have been sold on Ebay...
eBay Seller Coupon Programme
HiI am just wondering if anyone who has joined this programme would be willing to share their experience of it with me please? Good or bad. I'm wondering in particular whether you have found it to be cost-effective or costly, and if it increased sale...
Resolved! Unable to send photos to customers over messaging 1-Oct-2025
Unable to send photos to customers over messaging 1-Oct-2025It was playing up and slow and unresponsive yesterday, not sure if it’s been disabled for some reason? No message or clarity from eBay about it? It’s part of my dispatch/fulfillment workflow...
The new "Extended ‘Item Not Received’ protections"
The new "Extended ‘Item Not Received’ protections". Upon reading this, I thought it is great and at last something eBay is listening to us about. Then I read on and to actually be eligible you have to buy postage through eBay. This is unfair for busi...
You tube product demos. What should be your 1st purchase after a camera ?
If promoting / demoing your eBay products, other than a camera / smart phone what should be your first purchase.Without doubt an external mic. I , and many others will say that sound quality is more important than weather you are using 640x480, 1089p...
Large number of 'Item not received' messages.
Is anyone else experiencing more than average 'item not received' messages for their sold items?We have never had as many as we are receiving lately, but can't understand why.Any suggestions please?
EBay’s FVF commission on the VAT they collect from the buyer
It may be technically correct to include EU VAT in the seller’s overall sales total from an accounting point of view, but why do eBay actually need to charge us a Final Value Fee on that VAT? EU VAT is added to the item price and the postage if a buy...
Disgrace
I will tell you what has happened they want to fleece business sellers to support SELL FREE ON EBAY people have lost confidence in the platform We have ceased trading today 19th April 2025 on eBay.Yet again a buyer purchased an item fraudulently atte...
New feedback rule
Just got the seller news for October. Basically a new rule supposedly to meet 'global regulations'. So a buyer can leave a neg, if the neg breaks the rules, they get a chance to revise it so it doesn't break the rules. For example if they swear which...
Is eBay a place TO SELL OR NOT any LONGER? Is it dead / dying?
Does anyone else feel the same? Is eBay no longer a platform for sellers? During my years of selling on eBay, I've noticed declining traffic. The traffic and sales were so much better previously Is it the algorithm that is messing up people's busines...
New seller
Hi all,just a quick introduction from me to this community.My name is Dave Holland, and I’m selling original photographic art. It seems to me that my market ( now that I’ve taken the plunge) is going to be other sellers rather than the public. thanks...
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...
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