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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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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...

Account restrictions - valid ID ridiculousness

Just been told, after a number of requests for valid ID, that my account has been restricted. I uploaded my (out of date) passport and heard NOTHING from ebay, and now this? I don't have an in date passport, nor drive, or have a national ID card. Spo...

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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...

Contacting bidder no advanced search

Hi, I discovered damage on an item I am selling but there are 3 bids. I want bidders to know about the damage (item is still usable) but cant contact them. I cant find advances search as per instructions and I have searched for bidder via their usern...

Can someone please explain to me why Private Sellers are receiving 'adverts' from E-Bay to 'promote'

....listings? Surely most (genuine) Private Sellers aren't really timescale motivated by when their item sells as they're not relying on the sale. However, over the last monthish I guess, I'm getting increasingly inundated with 'push banner adverts' ...

"Mark as dispatched" - gone

As a private seller paying postage costs on all my listings I sometimes have two separate orders from the same buyer. Previously I would pay for and print a label for one, but include both in the parcel and mark the other as "dispatched". But now wit...

simple delivery

I think that everyone who has a problem with this enforced simple delivery should phone ebay and complain to them in person, the more complaints they recieve the more they are likely to do away with this ridiculous concept

Dispatched!

Over the last four weeks I have sold and dispatched 12 items. ALL are showing as `Dispatched`, not one is shown as `Delivered`. I know that there has been a Bank Holiday during the period, but that should not make too much difference. I believe that ...

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