Seller News: January 2026
Start the new year with important updates to help your business
Forum Posts
Resolved! board discussion categories
why dont the ones in charge of these boards create board discussion categories which reflect new hot discussion topics like: promoted listingsguaranteed shipmentsfree return shipping it seems to me like it would be helpful to isolate topics like thes...
Resolved! Are Community "Guides" ebay employee?
Just wondering what Community guides are? Are they ebay employees?
Why do customer service people mark answers as helpful from other customer service people?
I posted a question today and noticed helpful was being marked very quickly by others. When I looked into that, I discovered it's actually other customer service people marking it as helpful. That's very misleading, inflates counts accredited to resp...
Unable to reply to messages
After "reading" a message and opening it for display, when I click either Reply button I get the following page:eBayPage Not Responding The eBay page or feature you are attempting to access is not responding.Please try the options below:Try to access...
Posting History - Read vs. New Posts
Well Alan, you said you loved getting suggestions so here's another for ya. This is another feature we had on the previous version of the boards that disappeared with the reformat. When looking at our own posting history through our profiles, threads...
Start a New Discussion button
A lot of older posts are being brough back to life. This is an ongoing issue. It makes it a bit challenging as someone here who volunteers my time to help Why is the gaint main banner a search banner but the Start a New Discussion button in such a we...
Meant to say in Chat............
Hope Ya'll have a GREAT TIME at ebaylive..........
Vacation
Just as an FYI, I am on vacation tonight through July 11, and will have limited internet access. I am looking forward to being off the grid, and spending time with family. Of course, I will miss you all. You can still tag me in posts, but you won't h...
I wonder if ebay plans on fixing the community board
or are they going to let that right column with, start a discussion here, most helpful authors, popular board discussions and popular tags block the right side info until the next board makeover?
Duplicate posts issue
Yesterday we pushed an update that included updates to the community dictionary, and javascript code consolidations. I suspect that the javascript consolidations caused some issues including the duplication of posts, and Announcements going away.Thes...
Resolved! Getting some stuff off of the homepage
doug@ebay& alan@ebayI know that this was brought up before, but I don't think it was ever answered. Are you planning to remove the M2M threads off of the homepage unless the member looking at them is a signed-in community expert? I find it annoyng wh...
Post Times Not Appearing on Forum Pages If Not Signed In
I don't sign into the community forums unless actually posting (partially due to the %$&# survey popup that won't die, mostly because it appears that being signed in results in a noticeable performance hit). Noticed this a while back. Assumed it was ...
Printer-Friendly Page
Yes, it's me again with another suggestion. On the eBay for Business Blog I wanted to print out one of the posts, but the "printer friendly" version includes the discussion comments. Can we have a printer friendly version without the comments? Maybe ...
In Reply to and timestamp issues resolved
Thanks for your patience. In working with Lithium today, it was determined a routine platform update caused an issue with our In Reply To and timestamp styling. We've pushed through a fix, and In Reply To and timestamps should be working now. If you ...
Board change
Did the board just change again. I can no longer see who is responding to whom.
