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How do I offer different discount tiers across multiple listings?

I sell a lot of magazines and would like to offer multiple discounts, like buy 2 / get 20% off, buy 3 / get 30% off and such. Sort of like how the volume pricing works - except across multiple listings. Is there any way to accomplish this? I could ju...

An Original Photograph is called a fake/counterfeit by a company??

I just got a take down (Vero) notice that an original Kodachrome color slide (photograph) of a railroad locomotive taken from public property was called out by a shipping container company as a fake and/or counterfeit item!! And the locomotive is not...

Okay: Is this one of those days when something actually is wrong with Ebay?

I'm running a sale right now and yesterday had 41 views, down from 67 views a couple days after the sale went live. Normally, without running a sale or doing anything I get about 35 views a day. Today I've gotten *14*. Does that seem inordinately low...

Additional Service - Why is ebay making things more confusing for the buyers?

These new changes are making ebay confusing. Have you all seen this??? This is something that should be asked after the items are added to the shopping cart, or during the check out process. This window pops up if you click on "add to cart". If you c...

Resolved! $600.00 now taxed

Hello,I have been reading a lot on here in regards to the new tax laws and have seen many comments about tax evaders, good riddance so on and so forth. I would like to maybe give a different perspective and possibly give an idea how harmful this will...

ITEMS STOLEN FROM ME LISTED FOR SALE ON EBAY

I am having a hard time getting any response to the fact that a camera and lens that were stolen from me are listed for sale now on eBay..... I have contacted eBay, who weren't much help....the police have pretty much ignored me so far after filing a...

Resolved! DOES CHANGING THE NAME OF YOUR ID AND STORE HURT BUSINESS

This has been a horrible week. Absolutely no business period. Normally sales are consistent. My question is I changed my seller ID and my store to be more updated and appropriate. Do you think that could have an effect on sales?

Is eBay what it used to be..

I have been selling since 2003 off & on but sales are extremely slow this year …

A great tip for those in the EIS program.

I sell with another ID. Yesterday I got 3 offers on 3 different toy cars. I accepted the first one. Then afterwards I noticed that the buyer was in Canada. I read his other 2 offers. I immediately emailed him and explained that I had just joined the ...

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Ebay makes it worse - auction listing fees took away preferred bank payment for instantly paying

eBay continues to try to fix things that are not broken which makes thing worse. One new thing that happened this week is: paying ebay listing fees with the one time payment method from your preferred bank account instantly now takes 10 days. Like ma...

Do purchases made by the same buyer lower the transaction defect rate?

Hey guys! Unfortunately my ebay level has been lowered to above standard due to the high canceled transations rate. Now, I pay almost 20% fees since I'm from Brazil. I did this because I was being victim from several scammers, so I decided to cancel ...

Wrongfully flagged for Counterfeit item

I had a listing for an empty Pokémon wrapper, which people buy for art. I had someone bid and then ask to be canceled because they didn’t read the ad that is was empty. *empty* was in the title and description. Anyway, I would have been fine trying t...

disappearing descriptions after listing

Over the last 2 days I have been having trouble with my descriptions disappearing after submitting my listings. I have to make sure to copy and paste the description into a word processor, select revise the listing, and then copy and paste it back in...

False Listings with Huge Prices

I was researching VHS tapes last night and found many, many sellers trying to pass normal tapes off as some sort of collectible just because they have the black diamond logo on them. They have them for hundreds, and even thousands of dollars, and in ...