Developer account registration and appeal auto-rejected — requesting manual review
Summary: soldierofhope, an experienced eBay buyer and seller, is requesting API access to manage their own listings, emphasizing that the request is for private use only to automate inventory and sales processes. Despite numerous attempts to contact eBay, including emails, they have received no response and are asking for a manual review of their application. tcg_exchange_us also expresses experiencing the same issue, and soldierofhope acknowledges the frustration.
I'm an established eBay buyer/seller of nearly 20 years requesting API access to manage my own listings. I'm not building a 3rd app and will not access other users' data. I'm a US-based seller and am a local small business owner trying to scale via the platform he loves. I'll need the following APIs for these use-cases:
- Sell Inventory API — to programmatically create eBay listings (createOrReplaceInventoryItem, createOffer, publishOffer) directly from my own seller account. This is for my own private internal inventory automation tool, not a third-party application. No other users' data is involved.
- Sell Fulfillment API — to monitor order status so sold items can be automatically delisted from other platforms to prevent double-selling.
- Sell Account API — to reference my existing business policies (payment, fulfillment, return) required by the Inventory API when publishing offers.
- Taxonomy API — to programmatically identify the correct eBay cat ID for each item being listed.
My username is soliderofhope, I am a US-based seller, my tool is private and internal-use only, and all listings are created and authenticated via my own account via OAuth.
@developer-support@ebay.com @ebay.com Since this appears to be an automated risk-control flag rather than a reviewed decision, could someone from the team take a manual look and let me know what specifically triggered the rejection? Happy to provide any additional information needed. I have sent numerous emails to dev-relations@ebay.com to no response.
Please advise.
Thank you!
soldierofhope
Member since 2007
shram18
·3 weeks agoThis is what I just got back as a reply. I have over 30k items and need to automate some of the listing and need the sales data.
Hello Mark,
Thank you for your interest in accessing eBay’s Marketplace Insights API. We have reviewed your request with the eBay business unit, and unfortunately, we are unable to grant access at this time.
The Marketplace Insights API is protected by specific OAuth scopes and requires approval of business use cases following eBay’s internal processes. Access to this API is highly limited and generally reserved for eBay’s approved partners only.
We understand that this may be disappointing, and our team is here to assist with any questions or alternative options that might fit your use case. Please feel free to reach out to our technical support team through your eBay developer account for any API-related queries.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
eBay Developer Support
tcg_exchange_us
·Jul 11, 2026 at 8:10 AMWe are in the same situation.
soldierofhope
OPJul 11, 2026 at 2:41 PMNot a fun one to be in.