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Update on Current Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) Renewal Issue

Dear Sellers, We are currently experiencing a technical data processing delay that has temporarily impacted the timely processing of some Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) renewals, affecting the visibility of certain seller listings and listing count on Act...

Protection from Fraud as a Seller

I'm not a regular ebay seller, just an occasional buyer. I have a few relatively high value items that I'd like to get rid of and ebay seems the most likely option to maximize prices. I am, however, concerned with scammers given that the situation wo...

Buyer creates new ID to get around my blocks

I'm at a loss how to handle this guy. Back on January 11th he messaged me on 2 of my 3 accounts about listing he wanted to buy. He asked for a slight discount and I revised both listings (One on each account) and messaged him that I had done so and h...

eBay is dead. Where are the sales?

Ran some promotions and ads for the holiday. Not a single sale. Got the right items and everything is priced below everyone else. Here's the kicker. I'm killing it on Facebook marketplace. My asking prices are higher and I'm seeing less fraud. Also p...

Resolved! Selling Hookah Shisha Pipe Policy

Hi, Are there any restrictions to selling the Hookah Shisha pipes and accessories? Thank You

MULTIPLE Item Listing

Quick Question. I have a number of pairs of earrings that I want to list and I know there is a method that I can use to list them all at the same time so that a buyer can choose which ones they want. I have uploaded the photos and I know what to do o...

Shipping fee costs for refunds

What is the best way to save on shipping fees when a buyer requests a return saying that they did not read the description and the item is not what they really expected? I'm asking because it has cost me sending the package and back in the past, and ...

Buyer is requesting an invoice after he did best offer. Will not allow me to invoice him.

Buyer made a best offer that I accepted. Then buyer requested an invoice to ship to another address. I tried to do an invoice to his original address and it will not allow me. Can anyone help?

total funds differs from what I've added up

I added my earnings after fees and subtracted what I paid in shipping and the number I get is higher than the number it says I have in total funds. I have yet to take a payout as well. Are there more fees that aren't listed or something?

Cedar chest removed from listing

I had a cedar chest removed from listing that had the lock removed. Called ebay and was told that even if the lock is removed they are still not allowed because they were recalled years ago. There are over 200 active listings on right now for cedar c...

Selling Fees Should Not Include Sales Tax

Hello,By charging a seller's final fee based on the total cost of the sale including sales tax effectively raises the selling fee beyond the stated percentage. Sellers do not collect or benefit from sales tax. Selling fees should be calculated exclud...

Local Pickup Process

After all these years, I've never had any of my listings set up for local pickup, but today I get an order that has local pickup marked.I don't know how to process the order to show customer picked up.Any help would be appreciated.I did go into the l...

Problem with seller

Daughter most comfortable and used to MacBook, started college and they said she must have a windows based laptop. Landscape architecture- needed good graphics, memory and storage. She got a Dell Alienware. During school she saw professors with Macs,...

Resolved! Tracking source costs

Any tips or suggestions or even cheap app suggestions that help track purchase prices on items I sell? I have a feeling tax time is going to be painful. I keep every purchase receipt. For shipping costs, pirate ship and ebay make it pretty easy. But ...

buyer wants shipping to different addreess

buyer bought & paid for item is asking me to ship to different address than what the system says is his. Can I do that using ebay's label system & does that block any of the "seller protections?"

Ebay should save seller preferences

Ebay should save seller preferences Very tiring to have to populate listing fields, when essentially every listing is the same or similar Fields should come autofilled and saved based on the seller's preferences, give a function to save our preferenc...