Seller News: April 2025
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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...
Third Party Re-Shipper
Hello,I have a buyer who opened an item not received case. Tracking shows 'in route' not delivered. I went to the USPS website and tried to open a 'find my package' case and was brought to a page that said I cannot open a locate my package case becau...
95% sales crash in less than a week
I have been selling on ebay for a little over 26 years now. In the last two months I have been bitten by the ebay algorithm that slashed my sales by 97% and 95% over a 30 day period with the "ebay engineering team" having fixed the issue in between w...
Do my buyers in the US have to pay tariffs om my packages or not?
Hi,I am getting prety confused right now.I sell vintage items, some of whiche are made in China in the past and some aren'tI live in Europe - the Netherlands,If a buyer in the US buys from me will he/she be charged a tariff or not?| heard only packag...
EBay customer service getting worse again?
Just when I though the customer service was getting better for us sellers I had another hiccup. I had bad return and had to stay on the phone for an hour but finally won the case against a fraudulent buyer who not only destroyed my item and said the ...
Account restricted no mesage or email and having a dificultt time getting a hold of CS
Went to list something this morning and got a message saying my account has been restricted and to check my messages and email. Went to check, nothing. I have a perfect 20 year old account with zero returns or negative feedback so what could it possi...
Selling
Getting ready to close my store No views or sales for a whileWhat is going on? I have never seen this
Is this correct payout amount?
New ebay seller. Sold 900 worth of collectable video games in a week and I'm and shocked and baffled by how much ebay is taking out from the sales. This is beyond ridiculous.
Offers option on a listing
Often I get a Send Offer and the listing has no Watchers or it may have an early 1 Watcher. We don't get to see his or her ID obviously and so often we see it's a member with no feedback when we follow through and Send an Offer and then Review the Of...
Filing small claims court case over payment dispute if the buyer wins
A buyer bought a shirt from me, the shirt was a mens size Large, there was multiple tags on the shirt stating its size (large), when the buyer received the shirt, he acknowledged that he received a size "large" shirt but claimed that the shirt did no...
"Seller Iniated Offers Automation"
Just wanted to follow up on a previous post I made regarding this post by eBay. I just received yet another "counter offer" for a SIO I made on April 3rd. I know this because I always write the offer date in the note box of each item (which I encoura...
Buying from China...Tariff on May 1st
Let's hope our administration does something before May 1st.I just got a notice from my Macao, China seller who I regularly bids on auctions every week.And these are not high bid auctions.I am being told to not bid any longer at this time. Ouch!USA w...
Hong Kong Suspends Postal Service to and from USA
I thought about this last night as I fell to sleep.I decided to block Hong Kong.Hong Kong will stop accepting packages on April 27th.I will unblock Hong Kong if it changes in the coming days.Only FedEx and DHL might work(pending) and letters without ...
How would you reply to this?
Just received this message from a buyer. Order was placed Thursday 4/10, and Shipped Friday 4/11 within my 1 Day Handling time.Shipment is to Florida, tracking last shows it in Georgia on Tuesday 4/15 so seems to be right on track.Curious how I shoul...
eBay Magical AI Listing Tool Now Available for Personal/Private Accounts
Back in September 2023, CEO Jamie Iannone wowed investors with a mocked up demo of the "Magical Listing AI" experience they had been working on in employee beta where, importantly, he claimed the tool would allow sellers to "just take a picture and l...
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