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Account Technical Problem

About a week ago I saw what I am sure is a technical problem with my account. In my ebay current listings page the view count numerals are greyed-out & in my sold listings page the view tracking & edit tracking are too. I reported this to ebay tech s...

Ebay Chat working?

Hello & happy holidays! I have been waiting to chat with an eBay rep. for about 45 minutes and have two chat sessions open with no luck. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

Why do we pay taxes & additional cost on used items?

All I want to know is Why am I paying Taxes on used Items I sell- Ebay for me is a platform I used to sell my used Items without the hassle of a garage sale or other ways. Not only do eBay charges customers taxes on used items They will also charge m...

grey

why are some words in grey, instead of black, showing up on my seller page? The number for "Views" is a light grey. The words for tracking on the sold page are grey. I couple of other things. Are they trying to save on black ink? I don't like it,,,,a...

eBay's COWARDLY financial institution policy

I sold an item in July of 2022. 5 months later the buyer filed a dispute with his financial institution claiming it did not come as described. I disputed with very specific details stating this buyer was full of crap. OF COURSE, the financial institu...

Partial Refund

If a customer received something of less quality than I wanted to provide, how do I provide a partial refund to him.

How would you proceed with this buyer

Sometimes I get buyers who message me about an issue with the item they received but don't mention anything else. The message can be taken as an FYI if you don't try to read between the lines.Anyhoo, so this buyer complained about a clothing she rece...

Retraction of bid

I had a bidder retract his/her bid with justification that I had changed something in the listing.I never changed anything on the listing. I have never had this happen to me. What are the ramifications of this bidder making a false claim against the ...

Shifty Ebay - charging sales tax on total including coupon credit amount

Only in technosociopath land! The technology allows it, so they do it. I can't do anything about it. here is no customer service at Ebay! Ebay totals the orders, charges sales tax against that, and THEN credits the coupon amount. Under a 7% sales tax...

Resolved! Classified Ads

Could someone please tell me how/where to list an item as a classified ad? The eBay info says that I can choose Classified Ad in the format section of the listing, but I'm only offered Fixed Price or Auction-Style. I've spent 30 minutes searching eBa...

The math doesn't add up

So I made a sale on an item recently for $180. The buyer agreed to pay for shipping. The shipping he paid for was $29.25. eBay's cut from the taxes was $13.60. That's all fine and dandy. I paid for the shipping label(as I understand the shipping paym...

Resolved! Unfortunately, we can't provide our services to customers located in Luhansk or Donetsk

I have been selling on eBay since early 2019, have about 400 sales and almost 200 feedbacks. I live and have lived all the time in Ukraine, in the Donetsk region (the part of it that is not part of the recognized Donetsk or Lugansk Republic (DNR). Mo...

Items taken down as counterfeit incorrectly without the ability to prove they are in fact authentic

Hello, Please can someone give me an advice on what to do. Since January about once a month I have a random item that is removed as counterfeit. This is not a vera warning, it is not coming from the company that manufactures the item, it is coming fr...

Sales

Any suggestions to increase sales please.

How do you guys itemize your 1099k?

Since we will most likely all be sent a 1099k, how do you all itemize it? CAN you even itemize it if you have less than 12k in yearly expenses for your business or will you be forced into a standard deduction that may/may not hurt your profit/loss fo...