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Order earnings and eBay funds not matching.

Hi eBay Community, I’m looking for some clarification. My order earnings for a recent sale were £84.65, but my payout came to £77.55, which is a £7.10 difference I can't account for. I've double checked everything before posting to avoid wasting anyo...

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Payment

I can't get photo ID in order to get paid from eBay so the money it stuck. I've just lost my mum and her funeral is Monday 15th. I don't plan to hang around, and I don't mean leave or move away. My bank account is closing as I wrote this so what will...

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Ebay with holding my Seller Funds again.

Having ‘given up’ selling on Ebay in Feb 2025 due to the stupidity of HQ Rules and a long running withholding my funds battle, i’ve just started reselling again and sold two items and HQ have withheld my funds ‘yet again’ because i require the two mi...

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Payment on hold

So eBay is holding my money back that I made fairly with positive feedback happy buyers zero issues. The only reason my account now has restrictions because I don't have two bank accounts only one. I don't have photo id only a birth certificate. 40 c...

Resolved! Should I be paying VAT? UK business seller

I'm a small time business seller in the UK (mainly books). I have just noticed that Ebay have been taking 20% VAT from me in addition to the Final Value Fee, etc. The VAT threshold is £90,000 and my annual sales come to about £10,000. I am not VAT re...

Ebay holding you funds

Is it normal for ebay to hold you funds? I've used ebay all my life and my thought via the consumer right act is that once an item is sold your to get paid for that item but the middle man (ebay) aren't releasing the funds.... I thought maybe I could...

Tax Invoices

Hi there does anyone know how to get the tax invoices for more than 2 years ago, I can get the last 2 years no problem its the ones I need prior to that to claim the vat back that ebay charges on the fees

Balance hold

From the start, I've done everything correctly. Sold three items within a week, all delivered on time buyers happy feedback left. My eBay balance shows money in, and states yours to use on eBay today. But when I go to use it..it says no update bank d...

Where did the £1 go ?

I have been purchasing items on ebay for the last 20 years and pay via paypal. This evening I purchased an item for which I recieved a confimation text from my banking app which was followed by another message stating that I had spent another £1 - wh...

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Postage Paid But Decided to Collect

My buyer paid for postage and then contacted me saying he wanted to collect. We arranged the collection and all was fine and I refunded his postage in cash. How do I now get to the money in EBay? I don't seem to be able to change the status to 'Colle...

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