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Beware of the USPS Increase

I do free shipping on all my listings. I just had an item sell that sold to a person in the same city that I am and the postage went up by almost $4. When I originally posted the item and used the shipping calculator to determine what the "possible" ...

Can anyone help me figure out what I paid $9.20 for a 8 oz. GA package?

8 oz. package in a 9" X 7" ebay padded envelope.Usually ships for about $5.20.I just caught one (that already shipped) for $9.20.I'm just trying to figure out where I screwed up.

CONFUSION ABOUT 1099

Government raised the threshold for $25,000 (all this means is that large corporations have less 1099 bookkeeping to do). This has nothing to do with you reporting your income to the IRS. IRS still requires that you report all income (even if you don...

Listing not reflecting my chosen shipping destinations

I am having trouble getting the Ebay website to reflect the shipping options that I select (when I create the listing). I have checked and I have indeed excluded everything except for Alaska and Hawaii. (The continental US is always included when the...

Promotion changes

I have only been selling on eBay for a few months. Since I started in early Aprilmy sales, impressions, views were on a steadily upward trajectory. Was about to hit 2 Million impressions in the last 30 days. Then July happened. Since the beginning of...

Ebay user "revenge" buying items from me after I left her negative feedback.

Hi all. I recently had dealings with a crazy seller on Ebay, toysnstuff15I have not been satisfied with Ebay support's response on the matter and am looking for advice. I had purchased a low cost book from this lady. It was listed as "Like New". It s...

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Ebay Recommended Item Specifics Missing

Hi, I am no longer seeing "recommended item specifics" on my manage active listings page. They would normally have a blue text with a number of recommended item specifics I could add but it's no longer there. I am not able to find anywhere to manage ...

1099 k threshold for 2025

I received an email from Ebay saying that the IRS has changed this years threshold from $2500 to $20,000. Was wondering if this is true? I heard that it was part of the Big Beautiful Bill.

Shipping labels

I just started selling on eBay again after a 2 year hiatus, I noticed the fees have gone up, I was expecting that. What I am not understanding is, it appears eBay is charging me for the shipping label, even though the buyer already paid for the shipp...

low ball offers on items that are not BO

This one really irks me. I have a new listing of a dress for sale a bin not an offer item because its new to FP and today I had a message from a buyer who I found out is a seller of expensive $500+ lamps sent me someone else's listing # of the same b...

How do people sell items for below the price of shipping....with free shipping????

So I used to see this on DVD's all the time, someone selling a DVD for like $3 with free shipping. I inquired about it to a few sellers selling DVD's like this over the years. Most sellers ignore me, one guy told me he ships them in hard envelopes wi...

Resolved! My Ebay sales are worst in 13 years. Sold nothing this month. anyone having slow sales

Not to complain...I'm concerned. Worst my sales have been in over 13 years.I'm almost ready to stop selling on eBay. Charging us fees on sales tax, shipping, and our item. Anyone else having super slow sales?

Ebay Main Street Message 1099-K

I got this today in my messages from Ebay Main Street and figured I would share it for everyone to see.

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EBAY HATES ITS SELLERS

The elected eBay sales option "NO RETURNS" means nothing anymore. I have selected that option for 26 years - no problems from buyers. I had 100% Positive feedback, with everyone happy. But in one month I just got two NEGS from eBay's Scammer buyers. ...

Anyone know why Sellers in Parts/Accessories are still showing their listings even though

...they (many sellers) do NOT have 'Free Returns'- instead, still having "30-day buyer pays" (and I've confirmed they are listed in the Ebay Motors/Parts/Accessories section, selling "Buy It Now" "New" and on "ebay.com" (US Sellers, even advertised a...