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eBay fees is too high . If you want to promote an item the fee will end up 30% . No wonder less

Less people want to sell on EBay. Since we don’t make money so we have to sell high then buyers will not buy. They all buy on Amazon which is much cheaper and free shipping. eBay should reconsider lower the fees for sellers

Return item, no packaging materials...

I received an item, a chair cushion. It is a Walmart item but they no longer sell the color and pattern I want. I found it on Ebay. The seller had a different one sent from my local (10 miles away) Walmart. It was dropped at my door with no packaging...

error while listing

Hello Sir we are getting error message while listing on our account "To maintain a safe trading environment, eBay places limits on the number of categories sellers can list in. Currently, you do not have required permission to sell in this category."...

Why "Bidders" are not required to pay?

Why is the bidder not required to have a payment method on file when placing a bid? I have zero interest in getting bids from people who do not have a CC or bank on file with eBay. I do not want to send invoices and cross my fingers. And they should ...

Item hasn’t arrived. Seller won’t respond. What to do?

Order placed May 5th. No Money back guarantee. I opened the case with eBay but the seller is still not responding. I out of $400.00. What do I do? eBay is responsible for their sellers on their app. They don’t give me anymore options like customer se...

print return label

why i can't print the return label?thank you

My return shipping label

Where the **bleep** is my return shipping label at ?

Preforeclosure winning bid

Is the winning bid plus the $195 fee the total price for the property or are back taxes an other balances due as well?

how to sell items to a particular buyer

If the seller has agreed on a price with the buyer, how do I sell to that user - I have the user contact for EBay.

How do I get to a ebay person? The AI assistant is a moron.

Ebay refunded my customer for an Item that was delivered. I have proof of delivery, the recipient is ebay's international freight forwarder.

Custom fee & tax

I purchased an item from Japan and I live in US. I paid for the purchase and also got charged for tax. Do I have to pay more after I get the package for custom? Thank you.

I received a negative review from a lady who interpeted my ad wrong.

Instead of 2 sets of 4 available she took it to mean that she wad buying 2 sets for 24.88. The ad clearly said the price was for 1 set of 4. As I was packaging them for shipment one got broke, so I sent her a message offering her to opt out. She said...

How may of you are looking forward to when a true alternative to eBay comes around?

It's sad that after 24 years as a seller on eBay with 13,000+ sales, 100% positive feedback, Top Seller status, etc, etc, etc, I just want a real alternative to eBay to come along so I can jump ship as soon as possible. It's great that eBay started r...

Bad buying experience

not too long ago i started selling on Ebay, bhought alot of stuff created listings and kept asking ebay question to do things correctly.. out of my 105 orders i had 1 neutral because of a glitch on ebays site which caused me to be able to see the ref...