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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

"Volunteer Community Mentor" Accountability

In the spirit of LEVELING UP and co-creating a healthy, vibrant, authentic and supportive "community", please let me know if you have any answers/insights to the following questions... 1.Are there any checks and balances when it comes to the "Volunte...

A fraudulent buyer purchased nearly $600 worth of products and returned an empty package.

A buyer from Canada purchased two Miner and then initiated a return. We provided the return shipping label, but the buyer only returned the miner packaging boxes of the two products, along with some worthless cards. I filed a claim with eBay and prov...

I want to raise my seller limit , or go to a higher sellin catagory.

I want to raise my seller limit or go to a higher selling catagory.

Number of Items Sold

I am curious to know if the number of items sold that is displayed on the products and search page by sellers if that number is only represented by sales strickly on ebay or is that number also be generated by that seller using some sort of third par...

How do we feel about Fvf?

Ive been selling on ebay for over 20 years. Alot of good things n sum bad things. Final Value Fee has always been a bit frustrating. Shipping Ive been told by ebay reps that the shipping label with ebay is less then normal. Ive to disagree. I compare...

So you want to turn those views and watchers into money in your pocket - it takes effort

Have sold for a real selling career for over 41.5 years. Here are two guiding principles sets that helped me succeed. Yes this was in tete-a-tete seling situations vs online selling but you are still dealing with humans of all types of experiences in...

Ebay allegedly re-list an item I had on their pages years ago. I can't find how to 'cancel'

I had a chair advertised on eBay several years ago and I gave away the chair and I would think I would've canceled it on eBay since I would no longer have the item nor be able to sell it. It has been maybe five years or something? Somebody contacted ...

Here We Go Again...

For those of you who send Seller Initiated Offers, you many have noticed an increase of "counteroffers", which may be a surprise for many who do not, or have not turned on the "Automated" offers toggle when doing so.In typical eBay form, eBay decided...

Do You Get More Sales When You Offer Free Shipping?

Just want to see if it may help my sales if I start offering free shipping. What's your experience?

what is the selling lmit for 2025?

What is the selling limit for 2025? TY

Purchased by mistake, buyers that are in a big hurry for a seller to cancel

I'm getting this every now and again. Not really sure the real reason they purchased in error, they put "purchased by mistake" as their reason for cancelling. I had it happen a couple of weeks ago that someone "purchased by mistake" at some point in ...

Cancellation for wrong payment info. Giving a buyer a warning or not?

Call me a glutton for punishment. A buyer bought and filed a cancellation request last week saying they bought by mistake. I accepted, no BBL. This weekend they bought multiple items, one of which was the exact same item as the item they bought last ...

Selling - Offer system

Im wondering, as I suspect many are, how does ebay select which items go into your eligibility for offers? It used to be if there were watchers or even 1 watcher we could send offers. Now the only offers we can send on our items are those ebay select...

I'm having trouble creating a sale

I have been trying to put up a sale of my listings. I can put the items I want on sale on the page but when it comes to continuing, I can't continue. I have been having sales in the past but something has changed to where I can no longer continue aft...

Package w/Odor – Refund, Recourse from USPS, etc.

I sold a pretty valuable LEGO set (at least by my standards), and it was delivered yesterday. I woke up to a message from the buyer saying that the box had arrived in a plastic bag when USPS delivered it because of a strong feces odor and that they t...