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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

Forbidden Items

Over the past couple of months I have had items I try to list, removed because they are forbidden by eBay rules. The first one I successfully listed and sold. Using the same information, I attempted to list another. It was removed by Bay even though ...

MONDAY is a Federal Holiday. President's Day. PO's are CLosed

Just a little reminder for sellers. Monday the 17th is Family Day in Canada and President's Day in the USA. In USA, the Post Offices are closed as well as other Federal Agencies.

Item Not Received

Hi. I have an International buyer who purchased an item from me back in October. She opened an item not received case yesterday. Item was shipped USPS first class international. Tracking shows it was shipped but that buyer never received it. It’s bee...

What type of variable listings are allowed?

Example. I have 10 different books about George Washington. Each title is a different price. Can I list all of these in one listing with a drop down menu where the buyer can select the titles he wans to purchase. Seems like music sellers do this all ...

why are sellers not posting garment measurements in their listings?

A CLOTHING listing should ALWAYS include the garments measurements. I have tried on numerous occasions to contact the Seller to ask for measurements and have only had maybe 2 sellers respond. So, 2 things I am going to do from now on....1. Look immed...

My friend has an account connected to mine. His phone shows no special access

I invited my friend to share my seller account and, through his phone, I accepted the invite I'd sent and saw the "green bar" saying we're connected.I looked at his ebay account (in Home page, My eBay page, etc) in his phone's browser and in his ebay...

Offset 1099K Income

To account for selling my Collectables, I have been reporting the sales on IRS Form 8949 with the gains carried over to Schedule D (Form 1040). This was easy enough. I now have a 1099K income that has to be entered and I am still required to report t...

Charges

I have lost more more money on eBay than I made for bogus chargers

Worried about Renewing items

Hi, I have just oved to a Business account and paying £27 to list.I had 600 items on and the new £27 allows 250 lots per month.Then 10p I think.Are these items all counted as New listings each month?If so I will need to remove most of them as they ar...

Sellers beware! So many new “US” addresses for third party shipping

Watch out for the delivery addresses being 3rd party shipping hubs. So many of these are scammers who will magically appear in your messages 2-3 weeks later with false claims of not getting their package or it being damaged etc. Unfortunately these s...

Lost the ability to offer multiple shipping options

There seems to have been a change to the selling UI and I cannot offer the option to ship through multiple services. I like to offer both cheaper and higher shipping services because some buyers will only buy if they can get it quickly. For whatever ...

Listing price different from what I entered

Hello, yesterday I listed an item for sale on a buy-it-now basis for £5 or best offer. However, for some reason, eBay is listing my item for £5.92! On the Active page, it arrears for £5.00, however when I open the listing or search for my own item, i...

Resolved! "Reply with offer" no longer an option in message center.

Once again, the idiots at eBay have made a new change to the detriment of all users. When someone messages me about a specific item, there is no longer an option to "Reply with offer". Great idea, morons! Let's make it harder to sell stuff on your we...

Change name of store

Hi ebay community I have a question,I change my store name but when I print my shipping labels the old name comes up on the label. How can I fix this? I though it wwould change automatic to my new name.thanks for your help,

Resolved! Is this standard eBay policy??

So I ship a 10.00 item and I ship with tracking. I enter the tracking info and it’s on the way (it’s in Chicago and I’m on the East coast) but that is the final tracking update. The buyer has filed a “didn’t receive item” and my $$$ is frozen even th...