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SpeedPak order undelivered, what now?

About a month ago, I purchased 5 cards from a seller shipping with Speedpak. The order totaled almost $400 and shows to be delivered. As you can probably guess, the order never arrived, and both the seller and eBay refuse to assist. I have contacted ...

$100 shipping??

I went to buy a $10 item with free shipping, during checkout the shipping jumped to $100!! I backed out of it and reported the seller. Ebay found nothing wrong. Luckily it is not showing up as an unpaid item or anything. I mean, what the heck?!

Sellers not trustworthy

I don't trust the sellers anymore. My last 2 orders were messed up and have had no solution from seller. They are not on an honor system.

Resolved! Sketchy seller - scamming?

I have open case with eBay on this order since the seller send my shipment to wrong address. First, I believed it was just human error but the situation appears little sketchy and I feel like I’m being scammed. The seller has ship my order through UP...

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Pickup

We have brought an item,paid for it on Friday 25th, money came straight out of our account,but seller as yet has not received the money. How long does it take.

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Tax on used items?

Tax on USED items isn't supposed to be the entire sale PLUS shipping. Tax is only required when you sell your USED item for a PROFIT. The initial cost of any used item should be deducted before the tax is evaluated. Taxing shipping fees is also lazy ...

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retracting a bid

For future reference, if I was outbid on an item how can I retract my bid. I would like to move onto other items and not be on the hook if the winning bidder is unable to pay. Thanks!

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Does Ebay have an Amazon policy?

Twice in the past couple weeks I have bought things from Ebay sellers only to get the item delivered from Amazon. Does Ebay have a policy about this? I had thought in the early days of Ebay that a seller is supposed to actually have the items that th...

Bring Back "Feedback Left" in "Purchases" page

This is my philosophy. When I sell an item and the buyer pays, I always leave positive feedback right away. Conversely, as a buyer, I don't leave positive feedback for the seller until after he/she leaves positive FB for me. I don't understand seller...

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Ebay Authentication Guarantee -- Doesn't protect seller

So what is the point of going through the authentication process if the buyer can still claim that the item is not as described? Sold an expensive 14k YG necklace, passed inspection, delivered to buyer. About a week later buyer was granted a return f...

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Can't message seller

Trying to contact seller (carradiopro) and the option will not allow adding text.Order number:08-12997-62188

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EBay Authentication Center is Scam!

The seller had to refund me, because yall magically lost my shoes. Next time I'm asking seller to send them to me directly. Remember these are people that love sneakers as well, they can authenticate , so If we want them, they want them too. And to h...

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