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Current Feedback System Is Useless To Sellers

The system to leave feedback for buyers is flawed. You can only leave positive. I've has a big problem with non payers. So a case is opened, some eventually pay some don't. Your only choice as a seller is leave no feedback or leave a positive rating ...

I keep seeing the same scam auctions over and over

The same scam seems to show up over and over. It is listed as a one day auction but the description says " all bids will be cancelled this item is for buy it now only, contact me at the email address below to purchase". The auctions always have a ver...

Resolved! I won - AT MY EXACT PRICE????

Hi, I won an auction, and it listed my EXACT BID PRICE as the winning bid, and what I paid. I am not complaining, or going after the seller, etc. I paid a fair price. But HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? I bid a price that I purposely designed to be fairly rand...

Arthritis Hand braces

I have been looking for a brace for my right hand and listing says $2.97 but when you go to size and color, the cheapest one is $7.97.. Isn't this like EBay clickbait or something.. It hurts me a lot to do the search and to find that it's false adver...

Seller Hub & Bidding

I'm using seller hub (no choice) and don't know where to find items I'm bidding on. Can anyone tell me where my active bidding/buying is on seller hub (not purchase history)? Thanks.

Follow up feedback not posting

I just tried to leave follow up feedback using the latest version of Firefox on a desktop PC, didn't receive any type of error message, but the comment never showed up. This seems to have been a problem since about December 2015 based on past discuss...

eBay Auction suddenly ends with 14 seconds remaining?

eBay item number 173158533364 this auction ended suddenly with 14 seconds remaining. I've been bidding since 1998 and I've never had that happen before or even heard of it happening. There was no buy it now option. Clock was clicking down very normal...

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Leaving feedback for a seller after a cancelled order

I'm on the fence about this one ... a seller had an item listed for $130 or BO. I made an offer of $120. A little while later, he accepted. I paid right away. Yesterday, he cancelled, using the generic "out of stock / item damaged" reason. He refunde...

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Listing Yanked.

Things that make ya' go hmmmmmm........ Buy a widget, $5, generic, nothing special about it, no brand names, etc. Several days ago, it arrives fine, as expected. Looking at my Purchase History page, I see a blurb about 'we had to remove this listing ...

Make offer option

Is anyone unable to use the make offer option on iPad? Two days ago the MO screen format changed and there is no way to send the offer.

Advice about a problem with an order

I bought a phone about 2 weeks ago. The phone was listed as "new, unopened." First thing that I noticed was that this was not the case. It came in the original box but it was open and the phone had a screen protector on both sides. The backside looke...

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eBay didn’t notify me when I was outbid it.

So I was bidding on a item and I was winning you can say I won because I did. But they said I was outbid and I lost **bleep** they didn’t notify me when I was outbid like they usually they do at at the end of the auction when the time was going down....

Will I still get my money back even if it been two years from the purchase

Two years ago I ordered the following item: apperantly it was a scam. I didn't recieve the item, the seller didn't reply to the message and bascially I forgot about it.Today I discover according to the buyers feedback that it was a planned method of ...

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Logging you in...

Well, I noticed there are a couple of threads about it,none of them helped me, so I am really in struggle for help.*(Just to point out I contacted eBay + PayPal regarding the issue 4 times each, no help at all)I am desperate, I need help with this si...

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