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How can I save a whole listing permanently for future use?

I know a long time ago there was an eBay software that enabled this, but now? I have items that apparently won't sell now but I want to save the listing so that I can put it back on in, say, 8 months. Anything's better than having to do the listing a...

Resolved! sellers account

How do you get someone on the phone to help you? This is sooooo annoying. It doesn't give me the option to set up an account to sell items like program my "bank information" so at the moment I can't sell anything and I want to. I kept calling the "24...

Customer request refund from package not arrived, tracking says it has?

What do u do when buyer says item has not arrived and I have tracking that says it has. And sent them a copy of tracking? She wants a refund. Has not even been 24 hrs since it said it was delivered.

I purchase some china and it was very poorly packed. Received broken items.

I ordered china from Ebay and it arrived today very poorly packaged. As a result 2 of the cups were broken in transit. I am not sure how to get this resolved. The packaging was not even marked as fragile to ensure care was taken in the shipping proce...

Seller chose wrong reason for full refund. eBay International Delivery portion not refunded.

I purchased software that arrived on damaged media. I sent screenshots of the read errors and the seller agreed to a full refund. The seller chose the wrong reason for the refund: "Other". Because of this I was not refunded the eBay International Del...

Account Restricted - No message received saying why

I haven't sold anything in a while, been a member since 1999. 100% positive feedback. Went to list an item and it says my account is restricted check your messages. No message and the bot doesn't seem to be able to help. If I knew why I was restricte...

Buyer not returning

I sold something. The buyer cancelled. The money was refunded but they have are not returning my item. eBay is mot responding.

buyer wants to pay 10 days after purchase Can i do this ?

Buyer made offer on 2 items but can't pay until the 18th What is correct way to do this

Sellers protection?

Hi,I wonder how ebay protect sellers? Lets say a seller sends an item. Buyer receives it alright but claims it wasn't as described. There's no way for you to verify if he's lying or not. But seller is out of his money and an item. The whole business ...

How can I save a draft or listing as a template?

I swear I knew how to do that before, but now I can't find it!

Autopay feature

Why does Ebay insist to use this feature when making an offer to seller? Why Ebay does not give an option to use "autopay" or do not use "autopay" when making an offer? Very annoying feature. I do not like it and since this feature came up, I try to ...

Resolved! Had a bidder try and threaten to report me to eBay because I wouldn’t lower the price on an item

I have an item posted for 16$ and usually goes for 30 sold on here but this user lowballed me at 5 dollars. I am trying to move inventory here so I don’t mind that and was willing to work with him to make the deal so I offer him 50% off so only 8$ an...