Buying

Forum Posts

Sorted by:

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 ...

i called ebay today = "what are you doing about these scam sellers"

something is going on. i have been on ebay 26 years. My daughter found her old beanie baby's and some Barbie's. I was looking up other item to sell mine and was shocked to see people asking $10,000 for $25 dolls. all these sellers had either no feedb...

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...

Scratched sword replica advertised as NEW

Hi I'm pretty new to buying medieval type weapons so I'm not sure if I made a mistake here but I ordered a replica gandolf sword(lord of rings) and it advertised as new but it came with a bunch of imperfections like scratches on blade, scribble scrat...

Wrongly charged VAT on import shipping charge

Having made a purchase from the USA eBay added VAT. The issue being eBay didn’t just add VAT to the item (£115) but also wrongly to the USA paid shipping charge which is not subject to VAT meaning ebay made @£15 extra profit from me!

Seller is selling crap

I bought I bought a lot of things from eBay and this seller particular seller is not selling everything with the item. He waited until he already shipped the crap and didn’t tell me what it all existed of

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

Please make auction title translations optional.

In Texas and other states coins are exempt from sales tax. However eBay is collecting sales tax.

Texas Administrative Code Title 34 Part 1 Chapter 3 Subchapter 0 Rule 3.336"Effective Oct. 1, 2013, the sales of gold, silver, or numismatic coins, or of gold, silver, or platinum is exempted from Texas sales and use tax. "3.) "Numismatic coin- A coi...

Tax on coins

I never paid state tax on coins I purchased when they were listed in their own category. Ebay put COINS: US in the COLLECTIBILES & ART category. Since the first of the year I have, as today, purchased 65-coin listings and 23 of them were taxed.On 4/2...

Gift Card Missing the Last 4 numbers

After a month of talking with several eBay representatives, I was told today the money is gone. When I called the first time, I was told the money was there and ebay will load the gift card on my account within in 36 hours after receiving a picture o...

defective ebay card

I bought an ebay gift card that does not work, the store that I purchased it - won't issue a replacement or refund, is there anything else that I can try?

Real vs Fake USPS forever stamps with Pics

I've seen a lot of fake forever stamps out there so I decided to make this post. Here are some examples of real vs Fake stamps. The real ones I purchased from the Post Office. Look similar at firstMissing bottom stripeHas bottom stripeUSPS logoMissin...

Resolved! Counterfeit fake designer handbags _ EBay does not take action in removing listing

Counterfeit fake designer handbags are still allowed to sell on EBay site even though it goes against their guidelines. I have reported a few counterfeit handbags. I provided brief explanation as to the reason handbag is counterfeit. All the counterf...

Search keywords seem broken

Since about the beginning of the week ebay's search has been turning up way too many results for the terms I use when buying. In the postcard field many sellers use the tag RPPC to mean real photo postcard, but searching for that term now gives many ...

Is there a way to stop receiving offers on viewed items (not watched)?

Getting offers on items I've simply viewed (and not watched) is irritating—it takes several steps to remove those from the “My Ebay” page. (Clear the notification, check the offer, reject it, confirm rejection, select, delete.) I've seen that you can...