eBay Help
Seller Central
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Start a conversation

Seller News: May 2025

Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimisation.

Weekly Chat with the eBay Community Team

Open every Wednesday from 2pm-3pm

Community Mentor Programme

Experienced eBay sellers and buyers, helping other users with all things eBay.

Play Pause

Forum Posts

Start a conversation

NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY

AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.

User avatar by • Conversationalist
  • 280104 Views
  • 5922 replies
  • 348 kudos

Resolved! Global Shipping Program USA to UK - Not working US seems to have been taken away this morning

Hey all, This morning I've had several customers contact me from the US saying that even though they are watching my items, and could purchase them yesterday through the GSP they can no longer do this and all my other items that they are not watching...

eBay now asking for NI numbers

I set up a new private account not long back for selling off genuinely unwanted goods (as I said before, better off selling them on a private account than paying full fees or watering down the clothing business selling nans old china stuff). 30 sales...

Screenshot_20240615-200405~2.png

Resolved! New advertising guidelines

As a user of eBay Advertising, we want to make you aware of an update to general strategy campaigns on ebay.co.uk, ebay.fr, ebay.it, ebay.es and ebay.com.au. Starting from 24 June, items promoted with a general strategy will use the following attribu...

Resolved! EBay asking for national insurance number

Hi everyone, I recently joined for like 1 month and I start selling as a private seller , and now eBay is asking me to provide national insurance number."New UK digital sales reporting legislation requires sellers with 30 or more sales, or who have s...

Updates to eBay’s Promoted Listings programme

I'd love to see how eBay can justify this changed to "promoted listings". (In an email received a few minutes ago.) In future, if anyone ever clicks on a promoted listing, the promoted fee will be charged, even if the actual buyer did not find it thr...

No Simple Delivery?

From 15 April, we’ll gradually introduce Simple Delivery as the only delivery method available for private sellers who list eligible items on eBay.co.uk. I've been using Simple Delivery for a while now. I tried listing an item this morning. But no Si...

Can't find buyers email address

Hi On the last couple of things I've sold I've no longer been able to see the buyer's email address in the order details page. Ebay help says you should be able to see the ebay email alias, but I only see the address and phone number. I thought maybe...

All postage is now corrupted - It's a nightmare!

Ok, I review listings as my first job in the morning, usually with the few that are ending shortly.I thought as some of them are small parcel size under 1kg I'd have a look to see what eBay is now quoting as the price. Great it's down to £3.38 (I onl...

Resolved! Can’t send an invoice

Is anyone else not able to send invoices as of today? I sold three items on my private account and they were for ‘freight’ items which I usually issue an invoice for once the buyer clicks the buy-it-now button. But there is no option and they are ask...

N.I.number

Hi , ebay now withholding payment as I haven't given my N.I. number. DWP advises not to share number with 3rd parties and i would prefer not to. I already declare ebay income to hmrc and as ebay has my name and address this info can be cross referenc...

Got selling related questions? Start here:

Featured Posts

Top