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Resolved! Help

Can someone please provide me the ebay help number so i can request a callback to get help?My chat bot assistant has been frozen and not working for months now and every link for the callback number just leads to the main help page on ebay which is n...

"Invoices can't be sent for eBay International Shipping orders."

"Invoices can't be sent for eBay International Shipping orders." I have read older posts about this, but they don't seem to give me a solution to the problem. Here's the situation: A foreign buyer made an offer on a single item. I accepted the offer....

Resolved! First Negative of the Season, Gotta Love the Holidays!

I sold someone some Brach's soft peppermint stir sticks. Packed in a box, bubble wrapped thick, and placed paper all around it. Woke up, December 23rd, to a negative saying the item was packed extremely well but the sticks arrived broken into 100's o...

eBay not like in the 90s or early 2000s

What’s the most serious problem or issue you think eBay has?.

Positive Feedback With A Negative Comment

I had a buyer leave me a positive rating with a rude negative comment. For the life of me I cannot find where to report this. I know it is not permitted, but this buyer does it to at least 50% of his purchases. I contacted eBay, and that was a waste ...

Ebay needs to remove fees on shipping.

I've been selling on ebay since October 1998. Since the Post Office is going up on postage in January 2026, Ebay needs to remove fees on shipping. i don't know about everyone else, but postage fees are killing my sales. I loose money on just about ev...

We resell for others - we collect half on a large sale but still pay taxes on the whole sale price

We have had an eBay store for over a decade, and lately, we have been selling larger items for friends. Now we are wondering how to handle the taxes that we are ultimately going to pay on these larger sales. For example, we will be listing a set of s...

Reducing Prices If Items don't sell

I thought that when eBay promoted starting items at a penny that the "sales staff" had lost it. Well, the latest roll-out I think is even worse and not beneficial to either eBay or the sellers and that is the new "plan" to automatically reduce the pr...

Buyer didn't wanna return expensive item

I have occurred a buyer who is totally ignore my message, she will only be willing to response directly to eBay team to return the item. or keep it. She has sent me THUMB UP to show her happy mode of keeping this expensive item instead of returning. ...

new ebay policy on INR delivered after refund

Just had a INR opened on a $220 sale on a USPS item . considering the new ebay policy where they will reimburse the seller if a INR is refunded and later delivered instead of the old way of waiting as long as possible to refund and further irritating...

unexpected ebay ad on youtube for my own item

recently for the first time I added a video to a item I am selling showing the operation of the item. I also posted it on youtube, after a few days I was doing some searches on youtube using a phone on a different youtube account using the key words ...

Something you should try to get a sale, whether you promote or not

I will try to keep this post concise but suspect I'll fail at that, considering all the thoughts I have brewing from a sale I just got, plus the objection replies I know to expect. So skip this til tomorrow if you're not in the mood to read tonight, ...

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Ebay Needs to Get Serious About Combatting Fraud!!

Ebay has allowed rampant fraud to perpetuate on its platform. I'm a seller who has been on the platform now for 13 years, so I have seen a lot...and I am at my wits end with the scam where buyers CIRCUMVENT the no return policy...by using FRAUD. Agai...

Buyers returning used items

I sold an item and the buyer requested return as defective. The item was not defective, but was used by the buyer for several weeks. eBay refunded them and rejected my dispute. I couldn't resell the item because it was used, do I'm out the new, seale...

International Buyer Can't Buy an Item

I have a buyer from Italy that purchased 2 similar items at the same time (add to cart and purchase, not individually) with no issues. They will be shipped via eIS.Then they sent me a message regarding a 3rd similar item, asking why this 3rd one cann...