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Losing money

Hi, I have had the worst experience since I've started and still being charged $20.00 for an invoice.1.) I receive an email that I had a bid for $100.00. The bidder lies about his payment.2.) I have a buyer and she sends $70.00 for a carpet cleaner t...

how to ad small amount for purchase

hi i just went and bought two 50 ebay cards to buy a used item and now i can't get it cause they want tax and i have no wat to ad the money in so i am stuck with these ebay cards help where is a 10% coupon or a way to add 10 on a purchase

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Bids not accepted by eBay CODE - NOT the seller

On at least 6, and maybe as many as 10 times,I have bid 8 seconds from the end,and seen the Confirm box vanish,yet my bid is not accepted. The most recent had 1 bid @ £4.50,and it showed 2 bids at the end -so my bid was registered -yet the price rema...

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Venmo card issue

I tired to buy something this morning in the amount of $831.37 using my Venmo Master/Debit card and ebay returned with an error during processing. Venmo has been having issues all day and I didn't know it at the time. Venmo notification popped up let...

Feedback

Seller shipped a porcelain china item inside a paper envelope with bubble wrap and it broke! He did a refund but not the postage. I left negative due to delayed postage (which was November) AND broken porcelain. Somehow he had it removed then left po...

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Offers and Ebay urging buyers to offer bigger

For some reason this really irks me . When you see a BIN item that's , in your opinion at least , priced unreasonably high compared to it would usually sell for . It's been at the same high BIN price for many months without selling and the Make Offer...

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Ebay is Protecting Dishonest Seller's Ratings

All names have been removed. Hopefully ebay doesn't hide this too: I purchased a Christmas present on ebay. The item was marked up well above retail price, but I bought it because it was a present I really wanted to give my daughter. The next day I w...

How to report a bogus seller

How do we report a seller who constantly scams people. I bought something from them without checking their feedback because I trusted Ebay not to allow scammers (silly me) . After I didn't receive the item, I checked the feedback and learned that thi...

Paypal & eBay dispute

I am buyer, I purchased the items 2 days ago. Right after I bought it, I thought I made the payment to wrong person, so I immediately filed a dispute. Anyway, I made it in error. So I closed the dispute afterwards. The seller initially received the p...

Unable to claim an unarrived package

Hi people. I have this problem, on july of this year i bought 3 lamps for my projector. I' am from Argentina nad the seller from China. The shipment tine for the package arrived would be 3 months. Theorically the package would to be here more than 1 ...

Ripped off, eBay doesn't care

Bought a phone. Was not a Sprint one as advertised, and couldn't be used. Returned it. At my own expense since the label the seller sent was no good at the post office. Put in for a refund. Was denied, no reason. Appealed. Sent the tracking and proof...

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