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Stop Receiving - Because you showed interest in this item, the seller sent you this private offer.

Does anyone know which combination of communications preferences I need to use to end unsolicited offers being sent just because I showed interest? https://commspreferences.ebay.com/commsprefs I don't have any marketing activated. If @ebay added a "S...

Resolved! Why can I not buy these items? What does this error message mean?

I want to buy items from a seller in Belgium, despite the listings being visible through a search, not being marked as out of stock, and having multiple watchers / multiple "in carts", I get this message before the pay screen. Why? Searching the erro...

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Resolved! Delivery Instructions

Is there a way to include additional Delivery Instruction along with the delivery address? I live in a Gated Community. The Driver needs to use the Call Box in order to gain entry. It’s not a problem with USPS, UPS, FedEx, OnTrac, DHL, Amazon, Walmar...

Not seeing all listed items

Why am I only seeing a few items when looking up things … like in baseball autos cards I only see like 100 item when there is like 500,000 items to view is there something wrong in a setting or on my iPhone …

When to start worrying about a scam seller?

Good morning all, First of all, I've been using ebay for 25 years (100% positive feedback and 127 purchases) with no issues so far and have generally felt safe doing so. Recently, I purchased and paid for an item 19 Jun 2025, and it listed delivery a...

Returning items ebay scam

I just got scammed out of $40 USD by ebay as I returned an item with their shipping label ( too small). 35USD item which I paid $65USD with taxes and shipping to Canada. Uopn request for return I was provided wirh a shipping label. Ebay said that buy...

Do timelines apply after an INR case is opened?

An item I purchased stalled in the mail, then was shipped halfway across the country, stalled again and then seems to be meandering back to the coast. Daily USPS updates are nothing more than "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late." To put it in...

How can a seller with so many negs have all five stars???

There are 66 negatives and 59 neutrals over 12 months, yet this seller is reported as 5-star across every metric. Make it make sense.

Other unrelated (scam?) website stealing photos and descriptions of ebay item listings

Not sure if this is the proper place to post this, just wondered if ebay is "ahead of the curve" and following up on doing something about the sites that copy and paste huge amounts of content from ebay, and create a "new" site that appears to be leg...

Resolved! Item Not Received (INR) Problem

Hi all, I want to alert you to a problem that you may encounter with INR.I did not receive the item that I paid for.The Post Office (PO) indicates that the item was delivered.I went to the PO that delivered the item.The PO employee told me that the i...

Search engine

What the hell is eBay's IT people doing? The search engine is all screwed up. I can't search for specific items because I can't narrow my search down to find these items and there is no general section anymore to target these items. Obviously Ebay ha...

Invoice

I am looking at an invoice from 05/30/25 Order #0*27*13114*28937, what was this for?

New fee to assist infinite relistings

There's a trend that's been going on which is quite horrible to be honest with you and eBay needs to put a stop to it real quick Remember back in the day when people used to do the $1 item $1,000 shipping scam? Well now we have the $1 item that's lis...

SELLER WON'T SELL IN HER OWN STATE?

Just curious, why would an eBay seller from Iowa (or any state) refuse to sell her items to buyers in her own state? She even says she'll cancel purchases if the buyer comes from Iowa. Doesn't seem that she's doing this to avoid having to pay a state...

Question about making offers and seller changing the listing

I made an offer on a lot of stamps because it interested me and had cheap postage, after a while, the seller had in fact changed the listing entirely, while the listing in my "bids and offers" section still showed the lot I had made my offer on, clic...