Seller News: May 2025
Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimization.
Community Activity
Do Listings Where the Buyer Receives Extra Unsolicited Items Count as "Chance Listings"?
Five years ago back in 2020, I ordered a used Nintendo GameCube here from a seller. When I opened the package I received containing my order, I was surprised to find a figure of Mario and Cappy from SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY (the latter in disguise as Mari...
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...
Ebay dont protecting sellers for tariffs and delays in USA
Ebay dont protect and refund every person who dont get items on time and all orders are in some storage from 15 march
Video Game Info
Not sure if anyone has heard of this before but if you sell video games, this could happen, as it did to me. A buyer buys your games and then downloads them onto his game system and then sends them back saying they bought them by mistake. They lose o...
Getting offers
When making a listing, what is the purpose of deselecting “accepts offers” if I’m going to constantly get messages with offers? I don’t select that for a reason, I don’t really have time to haggle with prices. Is it OK to ignore messages from buyers ...
Commission on sales tax? Rediculous
Much to my surprise (being a long time ebayer- 20 + years), I just realized they are charging commission on the sales tax the buyer paid. Why should I have to pay a commission on something that wasnt mine? Im not collecting or keeping the sales tax. ...
More problems with Offers
Hey Tech! Your new "Offers" feature is not populating properly! I currently have dozens of offers out that were NOT Automated. And yet, they are nowhere to be found. Also, notice that it appears to be stuck on "Automated Offers", despite changing the...
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! Listings that have Top Rated Plus but aren't in an eSE category & don't have tracking--how to do it?
My post title pretty much states my question... I've seen some listings that I'm envious of as seller... they have the Top-Rated Plus graphic displayed but they don't have tracking and aren't in an eBay Standard Envelope category (patches, stickers &...
