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I was purchasing no hands sandal size 7 lost my place and was ready to check out

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Ebay charged tax on bullion

I purchased 10 Oz. 999 fine bullion from M Barr Coins live auction and eBay charged me sales tax. Missouri exempts sales tax on sales of bullion and investment coins. (According to the state's law, bullion means any gold, silver, platinum, or palladi...

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Item did not arrive. eBay says it did. What can I do?

What recourse does a buyer have when an item does not arrive?I've been buying and selling on eBay since 1998.I have a 100% rating on almost 1300 transactions.On a recent purchase, the USPS says it was delivered. But it wasn't.We have lockers at our m...

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Resolved! MYSTERY: Purchased item listing now only visible to buyer & no longer searchable by item number.

I recently purchased an item and paid for it with PP. Shortly thereafter, the seller deleted the item listing. Now the original item listing is ONLY available to me, the buyer, through my purchased items list. Searching for the item number no longer ...

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Ebay's shipping defaults are hurting sales

I've lost count of the number of sellers I've seen who allow ebay to calculate their shipping cost and don't realize that amount calculated is ridiculously inaccurate. This happens repeatedly and if that many sellers fall victim to this, then the pro...

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Resolved! Stamp Excessively Priced

I bought a book at a thrift store and discovered in between some pages an envelope with one single 6 cent air mail stamp in it. On initial research into the stamp it looked like it had significant value based on some sellers on ebay that were asking ...

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It looks like EBAy is changing shipping dates on something that I am sure was never sent! What the hell!!!!

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Beware of the seller

The seller has somehow managed to remove or hide any and all negative feedbacks against her. She claims to have been selling for 25 years. There is no way she never received any negative feedbacks in all that time. She is a contemptuous, pompous, hau...

Can a coupon be applied to a seller's offer?

Hi. I received an offer from the seller of an item I'm watching, and was going to take it, but I also noticed that eBay is also running a 20% off coupon on the store. Am I able to combine both (take the offer's discounted price, and apply the 20% on ...

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Aaahh seller not sent item! Paid £328 what do I do??

I have bought always got 2nd phones for my kids on eBay but .. this time seller has not sent item!my daughter and 1 went halves on her birthday for a iPhone 13.. she’s Yr 13 and has had a iPhone 7 since yr 7. We both worked hard but seller hadn’t sen...

Taxes charged on buying bullion

I purchased 10 Oz. 999 fine bullion from M Barr Coins live auction and eBay charged me sales tax. Missouri exempts sales tax on sales of bullion and investment coins. (According to the state's law, bullion means any gold, silver, platinum, or palladi...

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