Seller News: January 2026
Start the new year with important updates to help your business
Forum Posts
Community question
While trying to volunteer information to a post, and clicking on their listings to help them...Does looking at their listings mess up search results on eBay or other search engines for the volunteers? ThanksNot a main concern, just curious.
A Thought For the Buying Board to Promote Sellers
I wonder if it might be good if there was a thread started each month on a recommended seller on the Buying Board. How that seller would be determined, or who would make that determination, I don't know. One way the seller could be determined would b...
Bug: Can't paste text into message on eBay Community
I came to this community to ask for help with selling, but found that I am not able to paste text into this message box.
Working with a pad instead of a mouse
For us laptop users with a pad this is becoming a real problem. Reminds me of the guy who wanted a tree swing and got a jumbled mess ( look it up).
Please Help...
Hi...I am having such a problem uploading photos from my iPad to these discussion groups. It keeps saying wrong extension. I converted them to JPEG with an app I have to convert them but it still won’t work.thanks,Lorri
Who has an IPhone? No “Helpful” option
Hey, I be been back on the boards for about 2 months now, and would love to give many of you a helpful thumbs up - I know I appreciate when I get one! In all this time, the button to do that has appeared exactly twice. Once right after I had turned m...
Changes to eBay Community
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Community-Platform-Feedback/Private-groups-access/td-p/29518394/jump-to/first-unread-message This thread will probably get moved over to the CFB., but just thought I would give a heads up. The community boards look like ...
Private groups access
I was a moderator of a private eBay group that disbanded around 2011. I’ve kept the group bookmarked and refer to our discussion threads from time to time as it was a wealth of information. Today I tried to use the bookmark but my access was denied. ...
Is there a way to make community pages load faster?
I've been connecting from a slow wifi connection lately...I have an extra antenna on my laptop and that at least gets me a little bit of internet and I can load faster sites, but it really struggles loading community pages. Most of the time it just l...
Authentication failed Time Limit?
A couple of times in the last wk or so, I've been working on a reply to an active thread and the red authentication message has come up for some reason.... On the first one, I didn't realize what it meant, so didn't copy the message and lost it. Just...
My Discussion Feed
It never will show me my custom discussion feed. Anyone know if this is a glitch?
Lithium Spell check
What has happened to Lithium spell check? I am teh wodst spellerer with artheritous severilly in my handts and can really use the help of a spell check. Spell check was acting odd about at week ago. last couple of days the option disappeared from the...
Resolved! Subscribing
I want to subscribe to a board here. Is there a way so it will notify me when someone posts a new thread, but not when someone else replies to it?
Resolved! eBay should hire Community responders
It seems to me that there are a lot of knowledgeable people in the eBay Community. Maybe eBay should consider hiring them in a formal capacity. With years of buying and selling experience, they may have some insight that could improve the company and...
Resolved! Why are some IDs in bold?
I'm aware that mentors are distinguished by having their IDs appear in bold, but what makes others qualify to be in bold? Certain posting levels?
