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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...

Aside from Black Friday/Cyber Monday - when are the big sales in USA?

So last week a supplier I found was having a Black Friday sale... 20% off, which was significant on what I was buying (plus being in Canada I had to buy a lot, they wanted $70 for shipping). I found out today they're doing a Cyber Monday thing until ...

Time to Tip Your Postal Carrier

If you get good service, tip. If you want better service, tip. Our carriers pick up our items every morning and usually scan them in right away. Sometimes, they'll even make special trips. Like coming back during their lunch break when we haven't fin...

Selling

Is there more profit in the home and garden category or the collectibles and arts category?

Buyer scammed me on a new cell phone Ebay helped to scam

I sold a new cell phone, Tracfone, Samsung A11. It was a bit big for a senior I was selling it for him so he could get the money to buy a smaller one. This is the phone that Tracfone sent the senior for upgrade recently, but it was too big to put in ...

Are you doing anything special for Cyber Monday?

For me, it's the last day of my 20% Off Sale. We actually had a pretty good weekend, it would be great if sales continued as they did this past weekend. Over all, reports are that Black Friday was good for ecommerce (I haven't seen anything from ebay...

Just a little teeth gnashing...

I just hate "item specific". I list something and when I look a bit later there under "add reccomended item specifics" is the item I just listed. So, I click on it and there are the specifics that I did list, in blue letters, under the little boxes a...

Not getting notified when a buyer sends me a message

eBay has not been sending me emails when a buyer responds to an item I’m selling. I came across a few today that were sent to me months ago, but I didn’t know anything about them.There’s no option in their notifications or email section to get a noti...

if i close my account this year, can i access the information for tax purposes next year?

if i close my account, will i have access to it later for tax purposes? the new id requirement is about all i can stand...closing after many years on eBay. But concerned that i won't be able to access information during tax time. How does that work?

How to find buy it now option?

When I am listing I can't find buy it now option. Where did it go?

Seller Protection?!

I've been selling computer parts for a couple of years now. A few weeks ago, a gentleman orders a GPU from me. It was over $750, so I had to get signature confirmation which I did as well as ship to the confirmed address. I purchase my labels from eB...

Offer to (join) assist with community or "other" issues.

I have been an eBay member for many years now. I have seen some good things happen and some questionable things receive no attention. I am offering my input to review and assist resolving issues that crop up during the course of doing business, hopef...

Listing Management Provider

The company we currently use to manage our listings - importing them from Magento to their system then to Ebay has gotten our acct savagely restricted, we can only list 395 items, because of their poor handling of inventory updates.I am thinking that...

DO I NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING ON SELL SIMILAR

Just curious if when ending a listing and selling similar if you really need to change a few things, like title or description. Can you just do sell similar and then re-list with no changes and will that show as a new listing? Thanks for any help/adv...

Steam Gift Card scam

Hey everyone, I just want you all to be aware, a scamming group that offers to buy your item but then asks you to buy a $300 dollar steam gift card and offers $50 for the trouble. They also asked to text me instead of asking me through eBay as well. ...

new 2022 IRS taxing on Ebay sales over $600

This new tax change will put me and lots of other Ebay seller out of selling. I have no records of stuff I bought years ago but yet I'm going to have to prove what I paid for an item to see if I made a little profit on it. I have been selling items t...