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Sellers requiring immediate payment on auctions

Hi! I've seen a huge increase in sellers of auction listings to demand immediate payment. It's harassing. Ebay's term state that buyers must pay for the auctions they win but I believe the terms also state that sellers have to allow 4 days to buyers....

REQUIRED Product Reviews - a No Go

Just tried to leave feedback rating on a seller for an item received today. The "Feedback" will NOT let me submit it unless I now "review" the item itself. This is **bleep**. If I want to "review" something, I'll write a separate review for it, most ...

Tracking shows item delivered but wasn't

I was notified my $70+ package was delivered but it was not. I called my local USPS office and was told the tracking number given me was not correct, even though the package was shipped from the same city and arrived in my town on the same day I expe...

eBay is the worst platform in regards to protection from fraud and cheating and is getting worse

I bought some beautiful coins on eBay and made deals with great sellers, however; eBay with its ZERO customer service and total alienation of management form the people on the platform is destroying its reputation, creditably and trustworthiness. The...

contacted through ancestery.com

I have been talking with a young man from Brazil who found me on ancestry. He has my father's WW2 air force uniform (I have seen pictures of it). I asked him if he would be interested in selling it to me or trading for something else from that era. I...

Postage label

I am looking at a listing for a mail in repair service. The seller wants me to provide them a physical postage label or email prepaid postage to have my repaired item sent back to me. How do I do this? Normally,in the past when I purchased mail repai...

Seller has not shipped the merchandise 12 days after I paid for it

Seller has not shipped the merchandise 12 days after I paid for it. The online tracking for both the post office and ebay tracking shows that a tracking number was provided, but the post office did not receive the shipment yet and it's been 12 days s...

Resolved! Please hel me understand the return label process. Does the seller pay or the buyer?

I just looked up and item that I purchased last month and returned. Bought with free shipping offered. Once received, the item was more for a small child under 5. This was my comments to seller:received today and a little confused. Listing says boys....

Resolved! Being asked to return product but also keep it.

I bought a gpu fan but the fan didn't fit my gpu despite being advertised as being for my gpu I was able to jury rig it but I did give a neutral review. I received a message from the seller.This is the message:----------------------------------------...

Need Quality/Secure Packaging as a Feedback Category

Has there been any serious discussion from ebay of adding a feedback category about the quality/security of packaging? When buying, I would much rather have that info than any of the current four categories (except maybe accurate description). I am a...

Resolved! Worst experience ever

Never again 7 years with eBay and just realized Amazon is the way to go I will not spend a dime on eBay sellers lie eBay lie 2 times and they are ok with the fact that they lie , lol what a joke of a company, I’m going to make so much noise for this ...

eBay, you are turning your sellers' auction titles into garbage with your translation "feature".

Please make auction title translations optional.

EBay GSP is a fraud

I purchased an item from US. I’m in Australia.seller done his bit, sent thru GSP, via USPS, then Pitney Bowes.last tracking data - in customs pending clearance. 8 weeks now.ive contacted my local postage(APG e-commerce) who sent me an email saying th...

Seller says item shipped but tracking says different

I purchased a laptop from a seller on the 28th of April, I contacted them a few times after a few days of not seeing any update in shipping just to make sure all was good. I was reassured that it would be shipped, and later on that day the seller cla...

BUYERS' Feedback Left for Others, ("Serial Negative Buyers")

Recently I sold an item and as customary I inspect a Buyers "Feedback Left for Others", upon opening the buyers feedback for others, my first thought was this guy is Color Blind, NO, just kidding, I opened to 200, and counted 149 Negatives for Others...