I currently have this issue.
A buyer messaged to ask if I would delay sending their item, which of course I will but, like you, when I try to write in the message 'space' I am unable to type anything.
Is this a known problem dave@ebay
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)