eBay

This promotion of items is getting crazy

I sell a few laptops here and there. When i am almost finished listing them, it shows there is an option to promote your item. I was listing one today, they had a rate of 12 % I could change it or not enable it. I bet ebay would love that, they could...

Selling costs. Is it me or have they completely gone crazy with the selling cost?

I noticed this month that my selling costs have been more than 2x what I was able to get in my monthly payout!! I normally will bring in about approximately 2000 in a monthly payout with roughly 2800-3500 in sales. This month 3000 in sales and less t...

Here's a new twist on selling. Not sure what it is...

I haven't sold in years and am not anywhere close to being up to date. A recent purchase has me curious about something. Ordered two of same item from a seller, got the usual shipping notifications and tracking numbers (FedEx in this one)The next day...

Sold item, an hour later an account that isn't listed as the buyer messages me an address.

A separate user account that isn't the account that had the winning bid messaged me with a screen cap of his address, followed by a message saying his account has his previous address listed, and would not allow him to update it for shipping. It also...

No sale tax shown or charged FVF on order page

Now we're not complaining, just pointing it out. We sold a magazine to a guy in New York, which has an 8% sales tax - But the order page doesn't show/mention any tax or as far as I can tell take the tax into account when they did the fees - We did th...

Marketing idea

Just an idea. Amazon keeps customers coming back because they signed up. How about ebay having a " Lottery ". I am sure some kind of algorithm could automatically pay part or all of a customers purchase, seemingly randomly as a surprise. Rarely pay a...

Insurance for sellers

Most of my sales are for $20-100. I usually ship USPS. Over the course of a few years, I've had a few things arrive damaged, or not arrive at all. The hoops that one has to go through to claim the $100 included with Priority Mail, have not been worth...

Recent Study Results!

A recent study about American online shopping habits has revealed information that all eBay sellers should give attention to.... "Impulse Buying". The study, which was published by Slickdeals showed that 73% of online shoppers are making spontaneous ...

neClickable Link in Listing Description?

Hi everyone,I listed a lot of items before designing and printing things to go with them. I thought I would be able to add variations afterwards as I can on another site, but it seems not.So I decided to list the second items and put a link to them i...

Hi a customer says he is blocked for payments to me and cant pay for the item he wants?

What is my, next step. To recover my property ?

The **bleep**, continues, and the worthlessness Ebay becomes more and more apparent. The case is that I had a belligerent, buyer want to return an item, because he said It didn't work right witch was because he would not install it correctly. Anyway ...