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Listing removed - aren't website links allowed?

Haven't sold on Ebay for a few years and have just had my first new listing removed. I think it's because I pasted a link to a website in the description? This is the message I received: "Your listing didn't follow our Offering to buy or sell outside...

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...

Simple delivery is awful

I list a few things on ebay occasionally, but this new simple delivery is just rubbish for sellers. It assumes that ebay actually know the size and weight of items And that everyone can easily get to Evri or other courier services easily. Why did the...

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Bladed items

Think Ebay are just annoying members now for the sake of it. Bearing in mind I don't list bladed items! I have just received an email from Ebay, posted part of it below:Since you’re listing bladed items on ebay, we’re writing to let you know about so...

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.

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Account suspension to Permanently Suspended in 9 minutes

I was invited to become a user on my employer's ebay account. I accepted the invite, set up password, 2FA, user profile. I didn't list, buy, nor sell anything.A couple of weeks later, I received an account suspension notice as it appears I had abused...

Very silly policy

Mmmm...sold something, shipped my usual 48hr RM and tracked.Received positive feedback from buyer this morning. But tracking is still showing as "ready for delivery" for Saturday.So obviously the postie didn't scan it when they delivered it.However, ...

Ebay's new buyer protection scam

So I have been a seller on and off her since June 2001, Over the years I have sent items recorded delivery that either never turn up , or arrive with no notification of delivery. Now someone wants to charge a buyer a fee for safe delivery, when they ...

Simple Delivery ENFORCED!

Item relisted with Simple Delivery, no option to change to change it to what I feel is best for me and the customer. C'mon ebay sort it out.

Resolved! Simple Delivery

Is Simple Delivery mandatory now ? used to be able to select custom postage option but it’s not available now. Just tried listing and Simple Delivery is the only option for postage

What's happened to postage options?

Went to list something just now and the post service options have completely changed since yesterday. I usually list with free post (I then select yodel as that's my nearest/best priced drop off centre), but there's no option to offer free post. I'm ...

Resolved! The promoted listings scam

I've always suspected this but i thought i'd do a check and seems to be what i'd feared. Decided to put a couple of items up for sale. Both almost identical but with slight differences in images etc. Set them both to dynamic % of listing fees. And wh...

Resolved! VAT added to private seller

Hi. I've had VAT added to my item. I am a private seller, not selling for profit, I'm not vat registered. I'm selling from the UK to the UK. Why is eBay adding 20% vat to my listing. I spoke to that support and they are absolutely sure this is correc...

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