Seller News: April 2025
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Did I miss this?
I am curious am I the only one whom missed USPS not doing pickups anymore?I always did when they are delivering my mail anyway so do not get it. Here anyway. (shakes head) Now will have to figure out how to get to USPS hubs on those days. Many days I...
First Sunday with No Sales in Five Years!!!
I've been selling on eBay for 26 years and went full-time around 2020. I specialize in model trains, averaging about 20 orders a day. Sundays are usually strong for me, so having zero sales today is extremely unusual.I checked everything — listings a...
Fake account from china using a copy of my listing
I am facing a problem with fake accounts from China that use the same information as my listing, including the photos and everything, and offer it at a lower price. I contacted the seller about this issue and he responded and deleted the ad. Then he ...
What is the point?
I have decided not to accept returns. It is clearly written in the buyer contract. How can EBay void said contract and assess me with the penalty?
Insertion Fees?
Still don't understand why all at once my listings have started being charged .35 cents when they automatically renew? Also, I distinctly remember clicking on the "do not automatically renew" thing, but all at once a bunch of older stuff started rene...
Resolved! EBAY IS ALLOWING FEEDBACK EXTORTION
For the first time in years I lost an item. I had a vintage Barbie head that was damaged, I listed it under $20. It sold and I went right away to pull the order. I'm very organized, but couldn't find it. I turned my little doll shop upside down tryin...
Wahhhhh Broken...
Taking a box of candle making jars I just listed upstairs to my storage area to stay safe... hit the corner of the box on the wall... Down it went... Set of 9 and only two made it! Wahhhh! What are your wahhhh moments? LOL
1099-K Confusion while trying to file my taxes
I got a 1099-K from ebay for selling used items from my house I'm trying to do my taxes but no where on turbo tax or freetaxusa shows where you can claim a loss. They let you itemize like your a business with milages, that sort of thing. Schedule 1 f...
The description on my listings have dissappeared. How can I find it?
I'm looking at my newly listed items and I can't find the description of the item I wrote in? Does anyone know how I can fix this?
No help only hurt from eBay selling experience
I was registered eBay account from 2013, and my husband registered from 2012, we both are honest Australians. Few months ago, we started selling Microsoft software, but eBay suddenly closed my husband's account permanently and restricted my sales. Th...
So I’m trying to move some sports cards on auction
So I have kind of developed a over abundance in sports cards and I try to run them at penny auctions but many literally only gets just one bid ending at a penny and others I start higher don’t get any views at all. Am I doing something wrong here or ...
sELLERS BEWARE
of a buyer who calls himself XXX. I sold him a $12 item- he talked about magnets, wanted $10 to return it- I told him to keep it but he returned it with the golden chain missing- I found his phone, called him and he agreed to return the chain- Well, ...
Jeez, good thing I use scan forms and my mailman scans them
Otherwise to the buyer it would look like I just printed the label on Wednesday then sat on it for 2 whole days. Also if the package ends up getting delivered late, eBay would call it my fault and give me a performance strike for it. But fortunately ...
Pricing
How is it that ebay sellers want to charge more for items than retail stores? Its like going to a flee market and paying more than walmart for an item that was purchased at walmart!
I have been thinking about selling coins I have lots of change, I used to sell books here (Half.com)
I am going to buy some coin sleeves, what is the best type of sleeve? What about shipping to the customer? Priority envelopes are about $ 9.00 so I can get a tracking number. So the penny or whatever would have to be over the shipping and coin sleeve...
