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Shipping to Germany

I have always recommended international buyers use a domestic freight forwarder. I have never used eBay international. HELP!

NYT Article Gen Z Shop Second Hand/Vintage

Anyone else see the News York Times article the other day how Gen Z shops vintage and second hand even for gifting? And yet, and yet, I still never see Ebay ads focusing on such items. A missed opportunity?

Black Friday Sales

I just read people spent 11.8B on online sales. Why couldn't anyone spend at least $20 with me.

Most unhinged buyer you ever had?

I sold a Victorian sterling silver pendant. I am not a jewelry expert but I showed it to a few experts in antique jewelry. They all agreed it was most likely a one of a kind pieced manufactured in the Victorian era.Since it was one of a kind, no one ...

Your best 'just sold them sorry' missed merchandise tales

Three months ago a friend just beat us to 2300+ old jazz LPs. He read the newspaper before me and called first. Paid $800 and has netted $2000+ on 13 sales so far. Would have been nice.

Why are buyers unable to make an offer even though I listed with Make an Offer?

I've had two buyers notify me that they cannot make an offer for a listing even thought I listed it with Make an Offer. Why are they not finding a way to make an offer?

ANNOYING Bug About "Policy Violations"

We've listed an item for 10 years or so, and no platform ever gave us a hassle over it. A few weeks ago eBay suddenly ended the listing because it has LR44 batteries, and if you don't put some stupid verbiage in the listing about battery hazards they...

Shipping deadlines for holiday packages.

Every year the "official" USPS deadlines always seem a little too conservative to me.This year I actually agree with them.Most of my stuff ships GA.Most of my packages get to mainland in 4-6 days.So this years USPS December 17th deadline seems right ...

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Resolved! Insertion Fees

Background: No store - just a regular user.I use the Seller Hub. It shows I have 238 Active listings. - 228 Buy It Now and 10 Auction.Yesterday, I had one Buy It Now roll over and listed five new Buy It Now items - these are included in the count abo...

Is trump tariff affecting your reselling business

Have you realized increase or decrease in sales since trump tariff.

halloween

just wanted to let people know that i have taken down a lot of my Halloween items for now .i have all my Christmas items are now up for sale. Well i pray all the people on ebay have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

EBay listings not showing up in USA store/search

Anyone know the fix for this? My eBay store has around 500 listings. I’m listing on ebay.co.uk and item location is UK. However when switching to ebay.com the store will only show 115ish listings. Copy pasting the exact title will generally show the ...

I can add this to the list of things I didn't know...

I guess I sort of assumed that while you are editing your listing, that it sort of puts the listing on hold. NOPE !!! Got a bid while I was editing an auction and that cancelled out the changes I was going to make.

FreeBays 30 day return policy.

Over the past few years I have had transactions through EBay. That did not go quite as planed. The first was a set of High performance heads. The buy signed for them in good order. Then we find out one head was missing? UPS lost a 70 lb. cast iron he...