Seller News: January 2026
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Unable to reply to most posts in "Ask a Mentor"
What's the deal? I cannot reply to most posts here in the "Ask a Mentor" forum.
Seller board needs 24/7 management to protect abuse of this needed eBay information forum.
Imho this board is getting….
Ten Character minimum
I just tried to post a reply to a thread here. It was a yes/no question and I wanted to answer it. But the field wouldn't let me and gave me a "10 character minimum" error. Is this a new policy here? Because I totally remember giving one word respons...
Resolved! Invisible "Community Polls" on Community Homepage
I went to Seller News>What's New>Introducing Polls on eBay Community https://community.ebay.com/t5/What-s-New/Introducing-polls-on-eBay-Community/ba-p/33946265 It says this:"To use this new feature, head to the Community homepage and you’ll see five ...
Resolved! Ok, I give up. Bookmarks.
I noticed and tried the bookmark feature here. The problem is I can't find where to retrieve my "bookmarks" now on the community board. I am almost embarrassed to post this but ................. Thanks!
Mute a discussion here?
The option is available in the carat drop down to the right of the topic title but it's greyed out. Interestingly, I can mute myself though! Geesh.
Can't reply on some message boards
Hello everyone, While this is not the correct board to ask, it is the only one that allows me to post or reply to a post. My question is, why? I enjoy the antiques, art, and collectibles boards, but they don't allow me to join in the discussions. Am ...
Hidden "Punctuation SPAM"
Heads up to anybody interested in clearing SPAM off the forum:A lot of spammers will hide hyperlinks within punctuation so it's hard to detect. If you see that a period or comma is underlined, chances are there's a hidden spam hyperlink.Since it's so...
Dumping only 5 Community Anniversary Awards on me was interesting. Why not the full 24 years?
I joined eBay in 1999 with this, my first account k8gs. I had others, one a high volume seller for many years. The bottom line is I am insulted by only 5 years of Community Anniversary Awards. I was an eBay pioneer...here at the beginning. I was an e...
Talk about a long tailed posting.
In Oct 2017 a poster asked a shipping question (doesn’t matter what the question was). On the same day I answered it, and also on the same day the OP accepted it as a solution and marked it helpful. There have been no further posting to that thread. ...
I must have missed something here, but I am unable to reply to posts.
I have been replying to posts for years here. Today I noticed one post with replies blocked to the OP and people who had responded. I didn't know that was possible. I did see a grayed-out statement to my ID here that stated something like I cannot re...
Finding my posts
Hello Everyone! I'm having a heck of a time finding my posts and any responses to them. Isn't there a folder where they are stored?Thanks!
Issues with posting a video
Daily problems with attempting to post videos. Page looks like this:Will not allow a video to be inserted unless first enter 10 or more characters in the post. What's up with this?
How Do I closed A Thread I Posted. Mod ( Help ) Please!
Privacy: eBay doesn't hide user identy while posting these threadDissuccion topic: People create thread to have a Discussion on the topic. Not getting spam and threats, Name Calling and Foul mouth. ( Purely Childish )Noted: I was able to find 2 out 3...
Resolved! Photos Management
Hey Community Team Can you guys liaise with Khoros to see if there are better options for photo management on this forum? I use a lot of screenshots to help posters. Sometimes I use the same screenshots over and over (like showing someone how to chan...
