Seller News: May 2025
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What is the best way to package a fishing lure to prevent damage to it.
Is it possible to use padded envelopes for fishing lures/with hooks. How would you do it to save the customer a higher shipping cost.
Cross selling
Hi! Is cross selling on multiple platforms a good practice? What happens if same item sells on both sites. I’m worried about that. Thank you.
eBay is using AI to field reports of violations, and it's failing miserably
I'm very concerned about eBay's ineffectual use of AI because sometimes it absolutely requires a human to decipher whether or not a reported item for sale is prohibited. For example, red and blue LED emergency vehicle lights are prohibited on eBay, b...
Unknown errors from the inventory API's "createInventoryLocation" method
Attempting to write a connector to eBay's inventory API, I'm using the API explorer to test out some method calls in the sandbox environment. The example request for the "createInventoryLocation" call seems to error out with a 400 code, despite all a...
PENNY POWER #2
Have you looked at some listing of RARE PENNIES OR SMALL CENTS Recently CHINA has started selling rare coins or minting them The 1886 3 cent CHINA coin looks nice Anything that is rare or valuable CHINA seems to be reproducing It's not just SILVER NO...
Calculated vs. Flat Rate vs. Free Shipping
I currently offer calculated shipping for all my items, passing the shipping costs to the buyers. I've "played" with free shipping to see if it generates more interest and haven't noticed a difference. Calculated shipping seems to me to be the safest...
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SHIPPING INSANITY POST OFFICE CRASH AIRPLANE CRASH
It all started A FEW WEEKS, AGO I, was surfing EBAY to UP A collection I, put A bid on 2 ideams both $4 99 SHIPPING with 7 day, listing No one bid on eather ideam BOTH were paided A day, apart 1 from WASHINGTON STATE THE OTHER from I, DONT KNOW anywa...
