Seller News: May 2025
Catch up on the latest updates focusing on trust and optimization.
Community Activity
Why Am I Being Sent to Collections??
Hi everyone. I had some difficult issues with a buyer the beginning of the year. She falsely claimed to not have received an item and I won the appeal. The issue went back and forth and she eventually filed a chargeback. I filed a claim with my bank ...
Products Ending Automatically — Still Available but Showing 'Ended' eBay Glitch?
I am seeing products showing up in "ended" that we did not end. The trend seems to happen to items that have just been purchased. You can see in your orders what the customer ordered and then you can see how many are still available. When I click on ...
I AM FOLDING SO IT IS TIME TO WALK AWAY NOW AS JOHNNY CASH SAYS
Selling has gone to the pits and I have gotten frustrated enough so decided to call it quits soon as seen enough to know enough to put the cards away and accepted that fate as this is no longer fun, productive and something that I want to be entertai...
How do you respond to buyers complaining about shipping price post-sale?
With the changes in types of messages I've been getting, I'm beginning to re-evaluate to adjust my reply tactics accordingly. I haven't had many of this specific type of post-sale shipping price complainer in awhile until recently, I got 2 in the las...
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...
