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Best way to quickly escalate a sketchy order to ebay?

Found a kitchen appliance for good price, said it ships from Sri Lanka, I messaged seller and he said it actually ships within the USA. Bought it, seller marked as shipped the next day with no tracking. I ask for tracking, seller says:"Dear buyeryou ...

Ebay is now allowing Sellers to give fake tracking numbers

Ebay is doing nothing more than allowing buyers to get ripped off and does NOTHING about it. They have you jump thru hoops and allow the rip offs to keep your money.

Resolved! Received an empty box...what return option to pick?

I received an empty box from a seller today. I've never had to deal with this issue before so I'm not sure what option to choose for the return reason?

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Ebay not allowing me to purchase air rifle scope

Trying to purchase air rifle scope to be mounted on a BB gun. For some reason they will not allow sellers to ship this item to Colorado, even though it is completely legal in CO. I complete the purchase, but the seller can't complete the transaction ...

Return using my own label not QR code

I want to return an item however the only option it gives me is to get a USPS QR code and scan it at a post office, and pay $5 for that. Id rather use my company FedEx account and daily pickup, which is free to me. How do I "turn down" the $5 USPS re...

Scammed ?????

I have been buying and selling on ebay since 2008 so you think I would know better than to purchase an item from an account with 0 feedback. Literally not sold or bought anything ever on here, no picture on profile nothing. Ugh I'm so frustrated. I p...

Resolved! Ebay's strange actions

The goods have not been received, according to the tracking it has been in another city for 20 days without movement. The seller issued a refund for June 26. How can all this happen if the goods have not been received?!!!

Another Fedex smartpost Late /missing Pkg. What to do ??

Ebay purchase & Pkg was shipped Smart post by Seller on 6/2/25 now almost 15 days later still waiting to recieve .Request refund ? Wait a couple more business days ? Never had a situation as this any help appreciated..Extremely frustrating to say the...

never got item

item356875836346 amount 774.38 order number 19-13061-96508 order 5-16-2025 never got the rc mower i need to file a dispute for the refund thank you

MISSING USPS MAIL WITH TRACKING

Hi everyonei am having problem with usps. usps tracking says my packages delivered about 5 packages - on 6/9/2025. on that day , monday 6/9/2025 my mail box was empty. i did not receive any mail.i did file claim with usps but it was denied.now, i wil...

Here we go again.....Seller doesn't want to sell after accepting offer

Made an offer on a car. Was honestly expecting a counter offer. Seller accepted the offer. Cool.Seller sent message. Wants to talk about the car. Huh? I asked if he was going to honor his acceptance of my offer. He responds that I cannot afford his c...

Seller not responding

Hello Team, First time buying from eBay here. I want to purchase an item but the seller/store hasn’t responded to my questions. I made enquiries on two different ads from the same seller but no response for a week now. Should I go ahead and buy or ke...

Thanks to Ebays "Delivered" policy Seller just got $36 for nothing.

Hello!I recently made a purchase on Ebay that turned into a cluster.I ordered the product May 27th. The arrival date was somewhere around June 16th. Around June 3rd I had not received any tracking info so I contacted the seller. "Hi, quick heads-up! ...

1 to 4 small circles under photos

What do the small circles under photos mean? Sometimes 2, 3, or 4, with first circle blacked out. I can't determine what this is. Thank you.

Resolved! Ebay, please let us turn off endless offers

I've looked around enough that apparently the trend in offers for someting I only looked at can't be turned off. You also can't delete an offer until it's expired or refused. All you need to do is browse and offers start piling in, usually 5% on a pr...