Seller News: May 2025
Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimization.
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Heads up: changes to Seller Initiated Offers (SIO)
Recent & upcoming changes to SIO, the good and the bad. First-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 stinkin' time they send an offe...
Buyer Fraud - Returning a completely different item
I know this is an old & painful topic...Buyer bought $40 power tool switch with serial number on it... (24AK220F) Opened return claiming it 'didn't fit his tool'. Item arrives back...and its his old worn out broken switch with serial #2064CJ (made in...
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?
Selling from Portugal
Hello everyone.I have been trying for the past week to list an item to sell, im from Portugal and reading some posts like these ones below and other things on Reddit, i already understood that its a massive complication to sell from here but some peo...
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?
My description goes sideways and I don’t know how to fix it
I’ve tried to fix it but everything I’ve done is made it worse
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...
Resolved! disable automatic offers?
@wastingtime101 I am asking for a friend....(I got an offer for an item I viewed that he listed offering me a 20% discount.....he said he never initiated an offer on this item...it was a 3500.00 offering a 700.00 discount!)...I recalled seeing and re...
