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Glitched order nightmare.

eBay customer service is non existent it seems!I have had a sale through the global shipping program but that’s all that’s showing and I can’t process it. When I click on it I get a page saying something went wrong. I’ve had back and forth with the c...

Resolved! Changing a listing to use variations

I have been trying to change some of my existing listings to use variations.If I create a listing from scratch the variation option is available. If I try to adapt an existing unsold listing with the same category by changing to buy it now format and...

eBay Acting as Tax Collection Agency: Need for An Action

eBay 3 years ago to extended its tax collection agency on sales orders to include beside the United States: Euro Zone VAT collection under IOSS, UK HMRC, Australia, Switzerland, and Singapore for international sales/sellers. Also, with that change th...

Resolved! Retail arbitrage attempt's on my listings

How do I get help when I believe that there is retail arbitrage occuring? In the last 24 hours I've had several extremely lowball offers, followed by badgering messages, demeaning my products and asking for very specific details that really can be ob...

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve successfully sold on eBay?

Kangaroo scrotum pouch.

Buyer wants to buy 4 items for one price

Hello, I have a buyer that asked if they could buy 4 items for one price. I agreed and now he's asking if I could make a new listing and let him know. How do I do that? Talking with him, it sounds like he knows alot about Ebay as I am a new seller. T...

Fee increase again?

eBay is increasing their fees again? eBay makes more than I do on a lot of my sales . Pure greed.

Expiration on buy now Lodging listing

I sell Time Share rentals/reservations through Ebay. These are "Buy it Now" listings that are time sensitive since the reservation has a date of stay associated to it. Is there any way to add an expiration to the listing so reminders are sent to Watc...

Resolved! Breaking News: Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say

"The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service."

Selling “adult” magazines

I used to have vintage Playboy magazines and nudist magazines until eBay made a change a while back. But I see playboys still listed. So I read the article about listing adult material but it’s not really clear to me. What category can I use? I don’t...

Global Shipping Hub lack of response

I accidentally transposed labels on two packages, one going to CA and one going international through the Global Shipping Hub. I contacted eBay customer service by phone as soon as I realized this and the representative said it looked like the intern...

Does changing your username hurt you on ebay?

Today I decided to change my username from TigerofHappiness that I have had for years in order to match that of my Youtube channel. I was wondering if I can expect a drop off in sales from that change?

Resolved! "You got an offer! We'll automatically charge the buyer once you accept the offer."

I had a buyer make an offer on two of my items. I remember previously that if I accepted offers on items, they would combine automatically under my flat shipping policy. Now that I have two offers, I am being told that if I accept each, "You got an o...

Buyer protection fee

I find it really irritating to have all these odd prices flying around now - so when I set the price at £10 the buyer sees a price of £11.12 .One small thing ebay could do to help would be to allow me to set the price the buyer sees. At the moment I ...

How do I retract an offer, the system fired off an automatic offer before I could turn it off.

This idiotic auto offer fired off ANOTHER offer to a person immediately after the previous offer ended so I couldn't even get to it. This is driving me nuts. I wanted to turn off the auto settings, but it doesn't allow you to change offer settings wh...