Q: Why am I getting this error messages when listing?


"Warning - Funds from your sales will be unavailable and show as pending in your PayPal account for a period of time. Learn more: http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?UserPolicyMessaging|http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?UserPolicyMessaging||Error - Unregistered users or users who have not completed their registration can not complete this request.|Unregistered user or registration not confirmed.|Unregistered users or users who have not completed their registration can not complete this request.|USER_NOT_CONFIRMED|1005|" 


A: The first part of the message “warning funds from your sales will be unavailable” is not an error, it’s just a notice and does not prevent items from posting. It means that either you are a new seller, this is a new eBay account, or an older account that has fallen below standard and eBay put you into their new sellers program. So eBay is instructing PayPal to hold the funds from your sales for 3 days after you provide tracking or up to 21 days if you do not provide tracking. This will continue to happen until you have sold 25 items, sold at least $250 in value, and it has been 90 days since the date of your first sale. 


The 2nd part “error-unregistered user” is the message that is preventing your items from posting. Perhaps you  have created an eBay account but did not make it a selling account. To do so, you would need to go onto eBay and list an item manually. eBay will typically prompt you for more information, to add an automatic payment method to your eBay account to make sure your invoice is paid on time, and to phone verify your account. Or it could also mean that there are some terms and conditions that eBay needs for you to agree to. If listing an item manually and creating your selling account as mentioned above does not work, then you would need to contact eBay to find out why they are saying you’re not registered and what else they need from you.