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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...

People with ridiculously low prices.

Ok so can someone please explain how someone selling a small item for $2.99 with free shipping can make any money? It is possible to ship with a postage stamp but, you can't track it or print the label so ebay dings you for shipping that way. What's ...

New Ebay International Shipping Program Questions

1. From what I have been told from Ebay reps... there is a $500 cap on all listings that will ship through the program. If your item is over that - ebay will direct the buyer to contact seller to arrange shipping privately and directly with carriers ...

Resolved! A little interesting thing that happened involving labels

So I hit get label and gave me an unable to print error. I've had that before and went to my email and the label was not there. So figured something had happened and went to reprint the label and noticed I was getting tracking numbers on the auctions...

USPS misdelivered my buyer's order

and I need some advice on what to advise the buyer. She opened an INR which of course was closed when I uploaded tracking showing delivery. She contacted her local PO who told her it had been misdelivered to another address by a substitute carrier. N...

ADS NOT WORKING- ebay doesn’t want to take responsibility

So I complaint about ads being useless as they don’t boost listings visibility as they should and were before madness of October 2021. I raised rate by 1% and saw 0 boost- my promoted listing impressions graph was the same or worse. I don’t promote a...

eBay Should Allow Sellers to Cancel Auction Sale if Not Paid within 48 Hours

eBay requires sellers to wait 4 days for payment of an auction before they can actually relist. Auction payments should be the same as BIN with the exception that we don't know the buyer, but once we know the buyer and invoice them after eBay had alr...

Multiple items

Buyer has several items in her cart. When she tries to check out, it tells her she she can only buy one item per day. Is there somewhere on the site to change that

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Ebay adding "Best Offer" on our Monthly Store Subscription?

Dear ebay: I would like to change my monthly store subscription to "Best offer" please and thank-you. Let me explain briefly. 1. This will allow me 4 to 30 days (depending on your choice) for me to make a payment and receive my goods (seriously, when...