Seller News: May 2025
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Resolved! Scrubber bot getting overzealous about words in listing titles
This is not a plea for advice, just sharing an experience and wondering what sellers' thoughts are, or if you've encountered this before. Occasionally I have gotten an alert upon hitting 'List' -usually because I forgot an I.S. or maybe had something...
When does selling become hoarding?
I watched the entire series of "Hoarders" and it was shocking how many used to be eBay sellers. I was playing around with the eBay research tool today, and when I looked up a lot of antiques, it was surprising how many had been listed since 2017-2020...
Heads up: changes to Seller Initiated Offers (SIO)
Recent & upcoming changes to SIO, the good and the bad. First-[Bug or intended?] eBay is forcing the default to "on" for automated offers and counter offers. As things stand today, sellers have to manually toggle off those settings every single time ...
Resolved! What do they see?
When I put a new winner in my "Ignore List" what do they see when they go to my listing? Anything?Do they know they've been disinvited? Can they tell?Or, is all of my inventory invisible from the get-go? From the search list?
Can items remain in cart forever?
I have an item that shows multiple people have it in their carts. It has been that way for a long time, so can items remain in carts forever or do they eventually get removed?
Communication ( or lack thereof) with ebay...
I had a significant problem with an item I purchased on 12/17/24 and I notified ebay of the issue. Never heard a word from them. Some health issues the 1st quarter of 2025 did not allow me to followup as I should have but when I re-contacted them on ...
Sold & Completed filters
When checking sold comps, the filters are set to Completed Listings, and Sold listings. If you "x" out of one, the other remains. It now takes 2 clicks, and 2 reloads of the site to clear out these filters instead of one. By "x"ing out of Completed l...
Insurance claims
I sold an item and shipped through Ebay via Fedex. It has been 18 days since shipping and tracking shows it's been stuck at a Distribution center for 15 days.Buyer reached out and requesting a refund. The shipping was insured, but how do I go about i...
Seller transaction fee
I have seen a number of complaints about transaction fees. After being actively selling the past few weeks I have learned a little about transaction fees charged. The fact that the transaction fees are calculated on the buyers invoice including the s...
