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Shouldn't ebay pay sellers a fee when a PL is purchased through an organically found page?!!

It just hit me! If ebay is now charging promoted listing fees for completely different items purchased withing 30 days after a different PL was clicked on (calling it a halo sale), is it not reasonable to believe that ebay should pay me when a item s...

Resolved! Scammers

My first time selling. As soon as I post and item a person offers. Same person but different address. They want my email and want to pay off eBay. One time I gave my email. I get scam emails now. What to do?

Twitter linked social account disappeared

Hi everyone - I just tried to post to my linked Twitter account from eBay's Social Media page and there's no Twitter option showing. Worked fine a couple of days ago. Anyone else have this issue?

Resolved! Do you allow purchases while you are on vacation/time away?

I'm going to be using time away for a 6 day trip, it's my first time. I see you can allow or Not allow purchases during that time. What the the pros and cons? What have you done in the past? I don't have an ebay store, thanks

Cannot block a bidder

Cannot block a bidder. It says invalid user. I spoke to ebay on the phone and they don't know the answer either! so couldn't help me! Meanwhile I am unable to stop bidder contacting me and leaving aggressive and defamatory feedback which can't be rem...

Resolved! Jewelry Authenticity Guarentee concerns

I have a pair of diamond stud earrings with GIA certs for each stone and I was considering selling them on eBay. The certs as well as my listing will agree with each other and since GIA likely wont disagree with their certs I suspect they will authen...

Scammed

So, today I had to cancel a sale of a piece of artwork because it was a scammer that made the offer. Besides losing a half days work because I had to get it packaged at the UPS store, I also lost potential legitimate sales because after I accepted th...

Resolved! Seller has blocked me and I don't know why

I'm trying to bid on a itemit appears he has blocked me and I would like for him to unblock me

Transaction Defect Rate INSANE!

Does Ebay care at all about anyone selling? I am getting returns because people are constantly stating an item is not described. I Just got one today of an encased Comic. It said it was broken in the title, description, and about 6 pics of just the c...

I've got a listing block on my brain right now...

So basically I have 3000 things to list. Maybe 1000 are stamps, 1000 are old German banknotes, and 1000 other stuff. I'm having a bit of difficulty getting started. I couldn't figure out what to list this week, so I decided on my banknotes (which hav...

Sales have slowed down almost completely

I started my shop earlier last month, sales have been through the roof since I started. to the point, I had to manufacture more products to keep up with the demand.in the past 2/3 weeks, I have hardly had any sales, maybe 5 in total. I am constantly ...

Resolved! drop in sales this year horrific

I have noticed two things in 2021...ebay's fees are up/postage cost is up and results areless sales and too low profits for sellers. We are now taxed & we pay fees on taxes collected as well but don't benefit from the $ collected! To top it off, I ju...

A message for ebay

Why all of a sudden is ebay asking to upload a photo ID after already forcing me to give my social security number? This is an online store, there is no effing reason to require that much personal information. They now notified me that they will hold...

Any sole proprietors out there selling under a DBA or FBN?

So I'm trying to to switch my eBay account from 'individual' to 'business,' however I don't see any option to be a sole proprietor with DBA (and EIN)? Seems like I'd have to select that I'm a 'legal entity,' however I'm not an LLC, corporation, nonpr...

It is illegal for Ebay to charge sellers an internation shipping charge for a domestic package

Many sellers do not ship international, they turn this option off on purpose. They do not want to sell to people outside their home country.Just a precursory statement because Ebay has set their site up that sellers can customize what they do and do ...