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Your item is on its way back to the seller

We requested a return. The seller accepted. Sent us the return label.We mailed it. The tracking shows that it got all the way there, BUT it never showed through the ebay portal that is arrived. it shows that it's on its way back to the seller, instea...

private listing - bidders' identities protected

ok before we start discussion please do not tell me that this "private listing - bidders' identities protected" ebay have to protect seller and buyer privacy , because we all see who is seller and he is not protected anyway, and we do not see buyer a...

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New experience of bid not going through ,instead bidding pop up window returns reset blank ! OCH

Here is a new one , i thought i seen it all, waited up for a really late/early morning auction ending, it was past 4 am , reset page to refresh countdown clock, clicked the bid button , got the biding pop up window , entered my amount ,more than 2 x'...

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Resolved! Cannot buy specific item because of "We looked everywhere for this page."

Okay, this is something I am having a problem with as of right now. There is one specific item that I want to buy, but no matter how many times I click the link for the item, which is still active, it says that they couldn't find it. This is incredib...

Resolved! Am I wrong in thinking I'm being pressured to buy?

 So I was looking to buy a comic book and sent this seller an offer and they responded with a counter offer, but before I wanted to buy I wanted to see better pictures of the item because condition is everything. This was their response to my inquiry...

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Inactive seller?

I bought a monitor from a seller back on the 2nd of February, at first the delivery estimate said "Guaranteed by Friday. February 7th" It didn't ship on the weekdays after I ordered it, then the guaranteed delivery estimate changed to Monday the 10th...

Ebay hides listings! Possibly a major bug !!!

So I've been searching for V9958 chips on eBay (an old video processor) and i find very few listings, i then found the listing i had bough from before from my purchase history and it isn't included in the search results !Furthermore, if I go to the s...

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Resolved! Deadbeat seller. Not a complaint, just curious.

I bought something from China (yes, I know). The BIN price was about $10 USD. The seller had excellent feedback in the thousands and was a member for a few years, so from this buyer's perspective it met a reasonable risk threshold. Of course the expe...

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Sellers not disclosing defects

Over the past two months. I have purchased over $1k of stuff. Mostly honest Sellers, but here is what I have run into: yarn from a smokers environment, two neck pillows that are hard as a rock, cassette tape with wrong cassette, slide projector with ...

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Ebay gift cards don't work

I bought 75 dollars of eBay gift cards and attempted to use them, only to find out they were scammed and all the money is off of them. I went to the store I bought them from and they don't refund gift cards, so I called eBay customer support and They...

Is it possible for an eBay seller to call you?

Had a message from someone who I think might be a seller I purchased a book from, however, they did not reference eBay at all just that I had ordered a book (did not mention title either). I did order a book 02 February which was marked shipped but t...

Unable to buy anything on Ebay or attach cc to paypal accounts.

So about a week ago I bought a phone with my credit card the payment went through immediately. ABout an hour later I tried to buy another item and I was getting an error saying unable to process payment choose a different option so I had my sister tr...

Feedback issue

I purchased an item at the end of 2019. As I had an issue with the item, I did not give feedback right away. Now it will not let me leave any feedback. How do I leave feedback for this person?

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Resolved! Tracking # (in purchase history) CHANGED after about a month.

Any idea why eBay would change the tracking number in my purchase history?Any idea why it would change to a wrong number? Relevant Info:Payment date Sunday, Jan 5, 2020Tracking Info from new changed #Jan 31, 2020 11:00pm Ready for pick-upJan 7, 2020 ...

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