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eBay Searches Made Easier Through 'Post-Filtering'

Hello - I have been trying to do some searches on eBay - in this case, buying an iPhone. Doing this right always takes some time and multiple searches/auctions before you land and/or get the one you want. I was wondering if it is possible to - when s...

Any Father's day sale codes?

Any sale code like they had on June 6? I missed out, was out of town. I wanted to get a set of truck running boards for my dads truck. Thanks

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Seller describes wrong accessory with expensive electronic.

I recently just bought a expensive drawing monitor tablet and everything is in perfect working order but there's a missing accessory that was described in the title. The title said it had the articulating stand which is an additional optional accesso...

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This looks like a fake offer

Somebody had their account hacked perhaps? A brand new $700 mobile for $139.00? https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Samsung-Galaxy-S9-SM-G960F-DS-5-8-64GB-LTE-Dual-SIM-UNLOCKED-CORAL-BLUE/183268409786?epid=243686375&hash=item2aaba601ba:g:0M0AAOSwhT1bHeTH

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Resolved! I'm feeling scammed... seller makes excuse for not sending item

I purchased an item on June 2, 2018 for $125.00. The day after completing the purchase I received a message from the seller stating that he had a family emergency, needed to leave town, and he that could not return to package and ship the item until ...

Cannot make a purchase on the mobile app

Anytime I try to make a purchase or view/respond to an offer, I cannot pay with any form of payment when on the mobile app on both my phone or tablet(both are samsung). If I open up the classic site in my browser it works fine. I have uninstalled/rei...

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Resolved! Can't "Make Offer" due to not linking Paypal ?!?

So, here's the situation...I've been watching an item for a long time now (over a month), and would like to make an Offer at 80% of the Seller's BIN Price...but when I try to use the Make Offer function in the Listing, the eBay system will not let me...

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seller increased shipping cost after auction close

I just had a seller increase the shipping cost of an item from the calculated total that was stated in the listing. I noticed now at the bottom of the listing they wrote something about how they sometimes manually adjust the shipping totals after the...

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Negative feedback

hi ... my supplier canceled an item ,i had on an action .I could't cancel the action because it was less than 12 hours before it's ending ... I canceled immediately the order and i explained to the buyer the situation .... but he left me negative fee...

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Re-Directed to Current Items when want to see Closed Item

Within the past week, eBay has made alterations such that when we attempt to look at an auction which has closed/finished, instead of showing us THAT auction, unless you were the winner, it re-directs us to an active auction. It does this EVEN when y...

Report Seller

I bought an item from a seller. It arrived but the labels were from a different seller on Amazon. The eBay seller had given my name and address to a seller on a different platform that I didn’t have a transaction with! I had to return it because it d...

Resolved! Why is the bidding price red?

When I look at the item from my watch list the color is red. When I look at it in the bids/offers page it is green. It also says im winning the bid, as im the only one so far who has bid. Is there seomething I'm doing wrong, or is it just a glitch I ...

Fake unmarked silver clad Chinese Morgan dollars - detection

My recent, but un-named seller, has chosen to hide his buyer feedback. This, at least temporarily, renders him unable to sell more "silver Morgan dollars" under that eBay catagory, mixed in with the genuine Morgan dollars. He may still buy on eBay, a...

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