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Why is ebay charging me more for shipping than I selected?

I just sold an item for $7.50 so I selected the ebay $1.25 shipping. The buyer selected this shipping option and was therefore charged $1.25. I printed out the label and shipped it. I just got the breakdown from ebay and it is deducting $2.50 instead...

Resolved! Sales tax collected on Ebay for my state

Are these taxes sent to me by Ebay as part of my income? They don't show what the breakdown is and I have to pay my state board taxes before the end of January. I don't want to pay taxes on the income amount that includes taxes! I need to deduct that...

If they buy something big and heavy, I'm going to have to make sure I charge enough for shipping

I ran auctions today, a few stamp albums. I'm not known for doing that, so it was a bit of a bust. One buyer won most of them. In fact, he won so many, I don't even have a big enough box for all of them at once. Now he's complaining about the shippin...

Poor customer service for eBay sellers

Service to sellers here on this site is getting worse and worse.I have been selling vinyl records, singles, LPs, EPs, 78 rpm shellack records since the year 2000.It's been 2 months since they put payments for my sales on hold, that is, I have to wait...

Combined Order Promos and International Buyers

So on some listings I have a combined order discount, for instance, stamps on cards are $2.50 for 3+. It's for domestic shipping. I tested it once, if my shipping location when I look at the listing is Canada or other international, the banner goes a...

Sales suddenly down 90%!

I've been selling and buying on eBay for 15 years but April 2021 I started a small business selling hand built audio cables. I've been really pleased with how well it's going. Until now. I was cruising along with consistent sales for 12 months and th...

NEGATIVES ON UNPAID ITEM

Just dont understand what is going on anymore. Recently got 2 negs from someone who never paid. this used to be impossible to do but now, no prob i guess. i did use the appeal process they have now and they were removed, but how are they able to be l...

How to turn off Ebay automatically changing my items to accept best offers

Hello, I'm finding that many of my items up for auction are automatically changing to allow offers. How do I disable this feature?

Negative Feedbach Received

I’ve been selling on eBay for 20plus years. Every few years I will get negative feedback. Usually I can work with the buyer revising it. This buyer bought $4.99 doll shoes. They sent me an email that they are retuning them and at the same time left m...

Resolved! followers

Many of us sellers have followers ( I have @ 295 at this time) but who they are ...names are not shown to sellers...Why?I believe we have the right to know who is following our business...there may be people we don't want to do business with...others...

Thank God my "Sort By" is working again Today

EBay would you guys please do what you do Best "COUNT MONEY" and leave the rest of the site Alone, Thank You. For some time now I've been unable to use "sort by" and to use "note" I've had to click the bottom link "Show all Lisings", However today ev...

Need advice for cropping photos fast

I have always used Irfanview for editing photos I transfer from my camera to my computer. I like to give them a fairly tight crop and have always done it manually by dragging the box around the image.... one-by-one. It gets tedious and time consuming...

99 cent card sellers your loss per order just doubled.

Those of you who inexplicably sell trading cards for 99 cents shipped I just wanted to let you know that the increase in standard envelope from 64 cents to 69 cents just basically doubled your loss per order from 7 cents to 12 cents. Of course if you...

Counter-Offer Accepted But Item Still Shows as Available and Active

Late yesterday, I sent out offers on an item to the handful of watchers for it. The item is set to Buy It Now without offers accepted, but I did opt to keep counter-offers on with the offer I sent. Late last night, I received a counter-offer I felt w...

Can a seller sells "services"?

I know this sounds wierd... and perhaps a bit problematic.One of my competitors is selling his "services" on ebay - I know what it sounds like - so I was wondering if this breached ebay rules.So the upshot is that the item you receive is "free" - you...