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Tracking Details

Hi all, The Shipping team wanted to share the following information from the issues with tracking details not being updated:"We are aware that some sellers are seeing tracking details not update automatically to orders after purchasing a label. Our t...

Resolved! Automatically Refresh Listing Quantity Once Sold

I am supervising a very large eBay store with over 5,000 listings. Each of these listings are GTC, and are given a starting quantity of 1. However, once this 1 item is sold, the quantity does not refresh and the item is considered sold out and delist...

INR New Policy

Ebay evaluates us every 20th of every month, in that evaluation, ebay has calculated the "Late shipment rate" and "Cases closed without seller resolution" In these 2 rates show some idea about INR so why is this new policy? This policy very badly aff...

Blocking a potential buyer before they ever buy anything

I've been selling on here for over 20 years, and I've developed a 6th sense for being able to detect a trouble buyer just based on messages they send to me asking questions about what I'm selling. I won't point to anything specific, but often I just ...

bloc k bids from china

HOW TO BLOCK BIDDERS FROM CHINA AFTER SEVERAL BAD EXPERIENCES...THANK YOU

Account restricted for no apparent reason - please help

Hi everyone, I got my account restricted and I don't have access to my founds. I got generic, vague mail that some customers may not received their orders. I guess it's due to problem with tracking of 2 parcels sent from European Union to Australia. ...

why is ebay adding the sales tax to the seller's income from sale. Sellers never receive sales tax

I couldn't believe my eyes, but apparently Ebay is charging the seller to include the sales tax to the amount received, we don't receive any sales tax from customers, and when they get their 12% which already way too high, but this is downright theft...

Resolved! Why is ebay asking for photo identification?

Hi Guys, I just changed my home address in my selling portal. However, now I have received a message from ebay informing me that they will withhold funds unless I upload either a passport picture or driving licence for verification purposes. They see...

People in this community WILL buy from you just leave you bad feedback. This board is a farce.

You could easily argue some of these “not formally employed by eBay” members are compensated by ebay indirectly and that ebay condones it. In one case it “only” took me three months to get bad feedback removed on a fraudulent purchase that included t...

Shipping

Why doesn't Ebay standard shipping show when I am shipping a 2 oz. ticket. All options should appear. Also media mail does not show when shipping a magazine.

"Pay by" date. Is this new?

Bought an auction item on April 23. When I went to my purchase history, the item had a notice in bold red lettering to "Pay by April 26." I realize that's within the required time frame for payment, but past purchases used to say some version of "Pay...

Resolved! Ebay charging 20+% fees for sales?

I was recently running some numbers on my latest sales on Ebay, and I realized that as of January 2024 I'm consistently being charged ~20% fees for every item I sell. I deducted the standard $0.30 per sale from the transactions and ran a percentage o...

SELLERS IMPORTANT

I sold an item that was exactly as described. The buyer looked at a stock photo rather than looking at the description and listing. It was a brand new item. Buyer complained and demanded a return because of his error. Normally I would've been happy t...

is it okay to sell videos ( normal videos not adult content ) on eBay?

is it okay to sell videos on eBay?to list a video thumbnail and describe video content and post listing for let's say $1 or $2?when someone buys it i have the video uploaded to a unique link to download it i send them link through eBay messages same ...

Working around ebays poor 2nd description

at one time when you added a 2nd description you were able to adjust the font to match or create a larger/bolder font to get the attention of the buyer. this proved beneficial when you needed to update an item with a bid since the content or main des...

ebay store traffic

How is eBay traffic calculated?How does eBay attract traffic to sellers’ promotions and advertising links? How does eBay transform and appear in front of buyers after sellers do these activities?How to get eBay’s natural traffic? I am confused......