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Today - Payment Hold information from Customer Service

I was told today by Magda, an Ebay CS Representative, that all accounts are moving to 3 day held payments until items arrive...I was getting payments within hours, moved now to 3 day...she stated this is a new policy that will affect all policies in ...

Pricing

How is it that ebay sellers want to charge more for items than retail stores? Its like going to a flee market and paying more than walmart for an item that was purchased at walmart!

1099-K Confusion while trying to file my taxes

I got a 1099-K from ebay for selling used items from my house I'm trying to do my taxes but no where on turbo tax or freetaxusa shows where you can claim a loss. They let you itemize like your a business with milages, that sort of thing. Schedule 1 f...

I have majorly messed up. Shipping errors.

Alright I've screwed the pooch here. So last weekend I had a sale for trains and a sale for GI Joes. On Friday the train fellow says these are not my trains these are GI Joes. Luckilly he was great no big deal on his end. So I contact GI Joe guy and ...

eBay artificially restricts seller tools?

Recently I was told by a customer service supervisor that eBay, does in fact have a partial credit option for a return. (See why it is needed below.) However, in order to have access to it, a seller has to be "top rated" and offer free returns for at...

First Sunday with No Sales in Five Years!!!

I've been selling on eBay for 26 years and went full-time around 2020. I specialize in model trains, averaging about 20 orders a day. Sundays are usually strong for me, so having zero sales today is extremely unusual.I checked everything — listings a...

Fake account from china using a copy of my listing

I am facing a problem with fake accounts from China that use the same information as my listing, including the photos and everything, and offer it at a lower price. I contacted the seller about this issue and he responded and deleted the ad. Then he ...

Insertion Fees?

Still don't understand why all at once my listings have started being charged .35 cents when they automatically renew? Also, I distinctly remember clicking on the "do not automatically renew" thing, but all at once a bunch of older stuff started rene...