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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 ...

time after selling for payment

What is the typical time after a sell thet the buyer usually pays before I can cancel the sale Thanks

What's the scam? 5 Different users shipping to same address.

Over the past week, I've encountered a fraud/scam attempt. 5 different user accounts - buying multiples of the same $29 itemBUT all shipping to the same address. The top line is not a name but Sqt Nobox Lmd I've called ebay. Of course they said do no...

Combined invoice not charging shipping fee

I noticed that this morning I sent two separate invoices to two different customers. The invoices had the shipping chrage when I sent them but when the buyer pays they get free shipping thus is horrible when the item was $3 and shipping will cost me ...

What are your numbers ?

With all the people who come here saying Ebay is dying just curious to show it is not necessarily true. I know many including myself use posting i.d.'s, but what are your 90 day totals. Obviously it is different for everyone but in my case, I sell in...

Automatically relist

I have been trying to re-list a item that I have multiples of but I receive an error message that says I have chosen automatically re-list it, but the item doesn’t show up. How do I fix it?

Resolved! Sales history of a listing

I just noticed that I’m unable to click the “sold” number link of a fixed price listing all of a sudden. That number next to the quantity available. It’s supposed to take me to a page showing the detailed sales history of that listing with quantity, ...