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I returned an item to the wrong address.

I only purchase from eBay, I do not sell, yet.I bought several pairs of sandals from different sellers. I accidentally bought all the wrong sizes. I immediately printed the labels and placed them on the packages for return. I got a message from one o...

How to spot a scam when selling?

Hi, I'm new to eBay and just listed an item for $20. I immediately got an offer for $300, which seems too good to be true. How can I tell if this is legit or a scam? Should I proceed with it?Thanks for your help!

Received item, showing as shipped on ebay

I had received my item, but it’s not showing as delivered on the website.

Resolved! Purchase history won't display on my desktop, but does show up on my phone.

Of course Ebay isn't being very helpful so I hope the community can help. I've been using ebay for at least 15 years. Suddenly a couple months ago I couldn't get my purchase history to display on my desktop. However, it does display on my phone. Has ...

Issue with cart, can’t see pictures just sellers names. Anyone else

Issues with items in cart

Mailing label

Why wasn't a receipt printed with the mailing label?

How do I get artwork authenticated?

how do i get artwork authenticated?

choose which credit card on payment

Ebay recognizes me and automatically chooses the credit card that I have set as preferred on paypal. How do I set the preferences so that neither listed credit card is preferred because I want to choose each time? Thanks.

Canceling a bid

I suspect there may be shill bidding or some other kind of manipulation on some, if not all the items I bid on. Usually I wait until the end of the auction to place a bid and almost every time, I get outbid immediately. I bid on a lot of items so thi...

Resolved! Unable to message sellers!

I have tried to message sellers, both directly and in response to their messages, and Ebay will NOT allow me to do so. Indeed, there is a box and a send button at the bottom, but the box provides no way to write a message (no cursor, nothing). Any su...

Is this a scam?

I have an item that's been listed for several weeks. Yesterday I received this message from a potential buyer: Hello. I am interested in this item. I have tried to place a bid several times but ebay throws an error. "Ooops Looks like we’re having tro...

I can’t log out of eBay mobile app

I clicked on my name at the top of the page, but there is no sign out option

Reply to email says eBay but no reply option anywhere

eBay asked me to reply to this email but there is no reply button anywhere it's no way to do it in my regular email it doesn't show up there and then my messages with eBay there's no way to respond to it nothing like that so I need to know how to rep...

How you report a seller that doesn't sell to Latino is this racist

The seller rejected me any bit any sell

Anyone else getting listing prices switched to RMB? Anyone else not able to bulk edit anymore?

The glitches I see are of the worst kind from a programming stand point because they are not consistent, repetative. One does the same thing again and gets different error results. Some of my listings show prices in RMB though I never asked for chine...