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eBay estimated delivery dates a joke

I have a big problem with the eBay estimated delivery dates. First of all they seem to be based on the date someone pays vs. the date shipped. For example someone pays me on June 28 (Saturday), I ship on July 1st ( a Tuesday) and the eBay estimated d...

Some more of ebay's Magical AI!

Most sellers probably agree that space "above the fold" in a listing is valuable space. Well, ebay has apparently decided that it's the perfect space to show off the value of its Magical AI---I don't know if this is a test or something new, but I'm s...

Shipping

I just had a potential buyer asking me about combined shipping price. I already price my items at a discounted flat rate. I am not sure how EBAY does this. I cannot ship multiple items at the flat rate I am charging though. I asked him to contact me ...

My Suggestion to make eBay a better place - its Easy

1. Scrap the buyer’s protection.2. Private and business sellers both pay the same commission on sales, maybe 7.5% and perhaps a small listing fee which would make people think twice about trying to sell rubbish.3.Limit private sellers number of items...

Neutral Feedback Revision To Positive Needed -

A buyer left a neutral feedback as they weren't happy with delivery time. Once they realised we where "time away" from the business stated they would be happy to action a revision. However, the option to revise wasn't there only "report this buyer" o...

How is your "summer slowdown" going this year?

Is your "summer slowdown" this year (2025) worse than last year so far? What do you think is contributing to it for better or worse? From my business perspective this summer has been a lot worse than last year. It's been hurting a little more than us...

Resolved! My store appears empty! Where have my 200+ items gone?

Howdy! I went to my store today, and found that nothing is in it. The only thing under the "shop" category is a click bar to "search all items", which is useless when ones wishes to see all the items in the first place, and doesn't know what to type ...

UGH! What is Up With All the Cancelation Requests???

Why are there so many "buyers" requesting cancelations recently? Am I the only seller struggling with this? It takes a lot of clicks to actually purchase items yet so many are say "bought by mistake". What, their fingers operate outside their brains'...

eBay "chat" option

Can anyone help me here with the TERRIBLE customer service eBay provides! I am not new to eBay at all, however the "chat" option literally is a JOKE. You cannot get in contact with a live person to save your life! I mean come on eBay this should be a...

Would you be hesitant to sell to a buyer who leaves negative feedback for sellers?

I have offers on for most of my items, and will vet any buyers who send me offers by checking what kind of feedback they leave for sellers. Often, people who send lowball offers will have a lot of negative feedback for sellers while those who send re...

Resolved! The only way to Improve Ebay is to Stop the Dropshippers

People can say whatever they want, All the stupid stuff they can Imagine but Ebay is plagued by one thing and one thing only. Dropshippers. I cannot count the numbers on my hand the amount of times 30 products All purchased from Wish, Temu, Alie end ...

How can I get more followers and improve my sales?

I stopped selling in 2008 and 9 months ago, my husband and I started selling again. How can I improve? How do you get more followers? What is a billboard? What kind of video do you put in your store? Does it help? We sell vintage and antique, which i...

Buyer using Autopay in one week

A buyer won a small item. Then I noticed a message on my orders page that they were still shopping and would use Autopay in exactly one week. I do not have any more current listings for them to continue "shopping". I have never seen that before and w...

Worst platform and rude customer service in my life

I didn’t advice any a new investor to work with eBay even Amazon as seller account restriction , ban , block can inevitable whether in short term or long term your business can fall apart overnight eBay don’t care about your store and business . If y...

New Feature: Auto Price Reduction

I was making a listing and saw this new feature, but didn't see any talk about it.Personally, I've used this feature on another platform out of curiosity a year ago on a few items I was selling. It took a week or two for it to reach my minimum I put ...