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95% sales crash in less than a week

I have been selling on ebay for a little over 26 years now. In the last two months I have been bitten by the ebay algorithm that slashed my sales by 97% and 95% over a 30 day period with the "ebay engineering team" having fixed the issue in between w...

Finally Got My First Authentication Rejection...

...And I am not complaining about it! I am a GIA trained Graduate Gemologist who with my wife operated a brick-and-mortar fine jewelry store for more than 40 years. But no one bats 1.000. Ebay's authenticator caught a diffusion-treated star sapphire ...

taxes.

Can you have taxes taken out and set aside by Ebay so they are available at tax time? This was the first time I had to pay irS andGTB

Shipping changes don't get applied when I revise my listings, am I missing something or its a bug?

I just revised my shipping settings on a listing but when I save the changes it gets saved with virtually no shipping options and the listing says "Contact seller for shipping info" and when I revise again I see all shipping options are gone. Is ther...

Interesting AI overview of ebay

Don't shoot the messager, I just thought it was interesting and maybe why traffic counts have be falling. AI Overview eBay has experienced a decline in both website traffic and active buyers in recent years. The mobile app, while popular, has seen fe...

“Buyer closed return”

I’m just curious. I mailed a package that the USPS took too long to deliver. The buyer opened an INR claim. I entered the tracking number. A few days later in response to a USPS search I find the package was delivered. I get a note from eBay “Buyer c...

Garnet? Marked Spring 10K Ring

I hope this lands in the right forum this time. I have a ring I was given long ago and it's vintage marked Spring 10K and a symbol between those two but can't make it out. When I google, AI pops up with so many different ifs and and's but nothing abo...

No seller protection for hopitalization

After 20+ years of selling on here I had a medical emergency that required a hospital stay of a week. Unfortunately, I did not have a plan in place for items to get shipped without me. I refunded every customer affected and not a single one complaine...

Does eBay International still continue "do nothing" on returns?

I have had several eBay International situations when I did nothing while eBay refunded my buyers as promised. But in 2025 eBay seems like ended this. I have had two situations in 2025 when eBay acted differently. Two weeks ago, my buyer ($420) from ...

Item hasn't shipped after two months and has no tracking number

In February of this year, I sent out a copy of Spider-Man 2 (Launch Edition) for PS5 to someone in New Jersey. I went to the USPS store in my town to get it shipped out and added a shipping label to it. Cut to now, the game is still listed as "Shippe...

International Shipping

I'm new to selling on Ebay.I made a Sale, and tried to ship it (I'm in Panama, Central America) but neither Fedex, nor DHL would send it because the address is a freight forwarder (coincidentally to Panama). So, I was thinking that's best to ship it ...