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Seller Update: January 2025

We’re kicking off 2025 with some important enhancements and updates.

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Buyer Protection, Pokémon Day, VAT invoices & other launches landing this February

As we wave goodbye to January, I wanted to update you on exciting changes coming in February.

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Update regarding “Urgent - VAT action” email

On 17-19 February, some sellers received an email asking them to update their UK Value Added Tax (VAT) registration on eBay or potentially be restricted from selling. This email was sent in error. Rest assured, this does not affect your ability to se...

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ebay app

does anyone use the ebay app and is it any good as i keep getting a code for £10 off

Resolved! Broken Reporting

Login into eBay on desktop mode and try and generate a report on sales to date this year and keep getting a 'we ran into a problem, try again later' message.Been like this for a few weeks now.(it was working fine). Anyone else getting this issue?

Unfair 'Buyer'

Hi,I've always had 100% positive feedback and pride myself on it. However, recently I encountered a very vindictive member.They left me Neutral feedback for absolutely NO reason whatsoever! I politely asked them to remove it and was ignored. Bottom l...

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Sales

Morning Everyone I have a problem I do not have anyone else. So My listing all have coupon active to have more sales, but the last 2 days I have 0 views most off new active list and not have any offers. So today morning I just checked few active list...

Resolved! HMRC tax on £1000 sales

Does the £1000 p.a. sales figure include postage? I sell low value items & the postage is usually higher than the value of the item. On £1000 sales i'd be lucky to make £200 profit. Seems the end of Ebay for sellers like me.

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Sending item by post

I am about to list only my second item and send it out by post, but I am not familiar with the routine I need to follow and how to receive the payment afterwards. My first item was collected in person by the buyer you see, so this is a bit different....

duplicate paypal postage \ check your bank statements

ive found that postage payments via Paypal are getting debited from my bank account several times. awaiting PayPal comments, but, this isnt the usual delay in processing that confuses \ makes auditing difficult. on January 29th PayPal debited my bank...

Downgraded store

Hi, Sadly I have just downgraded my eBay store to a basic store and removed Approx 500 listings as I can not justify the eBay fees anymore on the higher shop, Sales are so awful that I am lucky if I take a £100 a week now, It used to be £900 to a £10...

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Item Specifics, Add Recommended Not Clearing

I relisted a couple of items yesterday and as normal once listed on the Manage Active Listings page in the column Item Specifics it has some recommended item specifics. I did what I normally do and clicked on the Add Recommended link and in the box t...

Ebay reporting broken on 31st Jan 2025

Typical, Ebays reporting has failed just when it is needed to get sales information for the last year far a tax return, no matter what dates i enter i get Jan 2025 only or an error message saying not available at this time. will ebay pay my fine if I...

Cost of postage is missing from desktop/app listing tool - get quote from postage provider website

Both app and desktop listing tools no longer advise on postage cost. They seem to be giving prices for Royal Mail, but Evri and Yodel are both missing any pricing structure. I have to go to the provider website for prices, or rely on my memory. Is th...

Resolved! Selling on ebay under 18 yrs old

My son registered an ebay account, and posted his phone on ebay for sale, and it got sold straight away. Since its a new account, the payment is on hold for 7 days. Just before he was preparing to post/send his phone, he realised ebay asks him to upl...

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