Seller account support
Seller account support for Glasgow ecommerce businesses
Glasgow has the density of small ecommerce operations that comes with being Scotland's largest retail and distribution centre, and it has the account problems that come with growing fast: selling limits that never move, verification that stalls after a move to bigger premises, and payouts frozen exactly when stock needs buying.
Updated 3 August 2026
Growth-shaped account problems
The cases we see from Glasgow skew differently from the Scottish average. Less pure policy trouble, more of the friction that shows up when a business outgrows the setup it registered with: a first warehouse, a second bank account, a company that was a sole trader last year and a limited company now.
- Selling limits that never lift. Volume grows, the limit does not, and the requests are refused without a stated reason. Almost always an account-health or verification precondition rather than a sales-history one.
- Verification stalling after a premises move. The marketplace still holds the old address, Companies House holds the new one, and the mismatch fails a check that never says which field it failed.
- Funds held at the worst moment. Payout reserves land hardest on businesses buying stock on a short cycle, which is most of Glasgow's resale and distribution trade.
- Sole trader to limited company transitions. Handled wrong, this reads to a marketplace as a new unverified entity or, worse, as a related account.
West of Scotland delivery, and what it does to your metrics
Glasgow itself is well served: it is on the mainland carrier network and next-day means next-day. The trouble starts with where Glasgow ships to. A west-coast customer base pulls in PA postcodes covering Argyll and the islands, and those sit outside standard next-day service for most carriers even though the mainland part of the same postcode area is fine.
That split is what catches people. A postcode area is partly in the standard network and partly not, so a blanket dispatch promise is right most of the time and wrong often enough to move a rolling metric. The fix is a handling time set for the worst case in your actual order mix, not the average.
The full picture of how delivery metrics turn into suspensions is in the Scotland guide.
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Common questions
Do you have an office in Glasgow?
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No. We work remotely with sellers across Scotland and the UK. Appeals are written documents built from your notice and your account screens, so there is nothing in this work that a meeting improves.
My eBay selling limits will not increase. Why?
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Limit increases are usually gated on account health and verification rather than on sales volume, so a growing business with an unresolved defect rate or an incomplete verification can request forever and be refused without a reason given. Clearing the underlying block is what moves the limit.
I am moving from sole trader to a limited company. Will that break my account?
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It does not have to, but opening a second account for the new company while the first still exists is what causes real damage, because marketplaces treat linked accounts as one and a restriction on either can close both. Change the entity on the existing account rather than creating a new one.
Marketplace policies, carrier service areas, and performance targets change. Check the current policy page on the marketplace before acting on anything here, and treat this page as general information rather than legal advice. No outcome can be guaranteed on any appeal.