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Deceit

I was informed that my order was canceled by the seller because they determined that the items were defective from the manufacturer and no information was available on when a new shipment could be available. A week later, the exact same items were re...

Bidding on duplicate listing with different listing number

I have left a bid on an item which ends in one day then I saw the same item with different listing number as a buy it now which ends in two days. What happens if I am the highest bidder on the first listing do I win the item ?

Seller has auction as "LOT" with active bids, then started listing things from the lot individually

So, I have a bit of a dilemma...I have an active bid on an auction from a seller that has advertised for 30 items to be included in one lot.Two days later, they have also started creating individual listings for items that were advertised in the lot....

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Item not as described Resolution Options

I recently purchased an item on Ebay which required several accessories (a microscope - had several associated lenses). Seller's description implied it was functional ("used" in good shape) but they did not include these lenses when shipping. I'm oth...

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Seller canceled my order after accepting my offer and payment

Made an offer to purchase a camera and once the seller accepted I made the payment. He then canceled the order and messaged me saying the following, "Thank you for your purchase. However, I am going to have to cancel and refund this order first. Due ...

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INSTAWATCH...... I need advice

I recently bought a bunch of INSAWATCH codes for movies. No problems with the transaction. No problems getting them to load to Vudu. Now Vudu has removed all the movies that I bought on Ebay supposedly because the email from the seller's receipt and ...

So easy to have negative feedbacks removed it seems

I don’t know if other buyers have notified this with their bad sellers .... but one seller was able to somehow ERASE ALL OF HIS NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS FOR THE LAST 6 months off eBay just today!! When I checked yesterday my negative feedback along with ma...

EBay mastercard points not showing up on Ebay

According to my statement I have 6000 points ready to go (and another 8000 pending) ... but when I try and purchase an item, they are not showing up under the payment option. Just a few random points left over from last month. Anyone else having this...

Sellers gouge high shipping mailing fees to buyers

Dear Ebay, can we have a option to filter shipping price, like the option for price? So many times I go to bid on an item where shipping charges were greatly inflated over 5 x's of all the others charge, just so they can have the top spot if you sort...

This is why I am not inclined to buy anything here, anymore! Wasted an entire day.

So, I opened this new thread because what happened today to me as a buyer on eBay is absolutely SURREAL. They - between eBay and PayPal - wasted 7 hours total of my time. This is what happened (not on this, but my buying account). I received an item ...

Seller has cancelled order

Hi , can a seller cancel your order and refund your payment if you suspect they haven't got the price what they thought they would

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Bid erased

I have noticed on at least two different auctions that as I tried to bid on an item the bid was instantly deleted character by character. I missed out on that first auction. For the second one I had opened multiple windows with amount pre-entered to ...

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Resolved! Need advice....

Received message from seller asking if I received my Bok choy seeds. (Box chop? auto correct is being a pain) Anyhow, they said please don't start a return/refund case. Whatever. I went to purchase history and discovered a lot of the stuff I have pur...

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