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Resolved! Purchased an out of stock item, not sure what to do

Purchased an item last week, didn't think anything of it untill I had received no dispatch notice by wednesday and checked the sellers feedback, a fair few negs about out of stock items over the years so I checked the listing and sure it said "Awaiti...

Ordered item not recieved

Hollo, I'm virgel spencer and I have not received my packageYet, Order# 08-11045-97514Item iD: 134094432775Seller- Case world.Color black, for iPhone 11Subtotal $11.88Shipping freeSales tax $0.72 - Total Charge $12.60Card # 9144.- THANK YOU

Seller or eBay lying? Read and make your own decision.

Sorry eBay community – but I have to vent. I spent over 30 min on the phone with customer service and then leadership today – and probably over 2 hours on the phone with eBay in that past 6 weeks. I have been with eBay for over 18 years. This has bee...

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Already paid for items, but being prompted to pay again

Man, the problems with this website never end... I was cruising US Coins category using "Ending Soonest". It is like playing speed chess. I won a few auctions. I paid for the items. When I try to go back to US Coins category, the page load hangs. My ...

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Bought an item that didn’t fit wanted to return but seller escalated the case and now I can’t return

Bought an item that didn’t fit wanted to return but seller escalated the case and now I can’t return It! It says case closed all I did was ask to return, what happened to eBay’s money back guarantee? It doesn’t fit, what the heck is that??

searches

can any change be made to searchs where it shows what i am looking for and not what ebay wants to see?

Scammed

So I preordered an item from ***on June 14th 2023, it was for a pre-order item totalling US $576.11. When November came, I contacted the seller for an update, they asked me to wait until end of November, so I waited, then end of November came and the...

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looking at picture of thing i purchased and the images are gone

So I purchased a coffee mug earlier. All is well but I wanted to take a look at the picture to match another mug from somewhere else and there is no way to see an image of what I purchased. Why? My first thought was ebay deletes pictures to prevent c...

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Resolved! Auction ended for me but others still outbid me.

Hi, Auction ended for me but others still outbid me. I had bid on the item. No other bids. It said ended and only my two bids. The first bid and my maximum bid were the only two bids. Other people were able to outbid me and I lost. I had bid on the s...

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Arbitrage

I have had one of my worst buying experiences ever on eBay. I purchased a CD from a high volume seller and received the item fairly quickly. So far so good. The strange thing was, that the shipment arrived via an Amazon delivery vehicle in amazon pac...

Seller accusing me of trying to scam them because I'm asking for shipping options with tracking

Why are sellers often aggressive and condescending when I ask for tracked shipping when they offer normal post for items that are worth at least 50$? I would assume they are scammers? There's is a lot of this nonsense I don't really want to buy stuff...

Ebay guarentee

How in the world do you get someone to call you back?!?! IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE!

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