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unable to login in my account

I am unable to login in my account. It always shows that please verify your identity, call on this number and verify this id.

Lol, no "safety" group? So just use first one. Not that ebay cares anyway... So ebay customers service sux, everybody knows that. "Talking" to them can is always the most frustrating experience. Talking to one of their chat bots recently was no diffe...

Resolved! Final Value fee, how is tax calculated?

I completed the sale below, speakers sold for parts for 5.00 as indicated. Buyer paid 26.10 for shipping, what I don't get is why the sales tax is 2.18 on a 5.00 sale. I live in Lost Angeles county where the tax rate is 10.25 percent, for a 5.00 item...

What we fail to realize

Over the last 6 months I have really dived into these discussion boards reviewing EBAY fees, increases and whatever. I want to present a hypothetical situation which some of the result applies to all of us. One note, I had this discussion with a frie...

auto relist

Auto relist on the web...There is a checkbox for Auto relist but the content below it relates to Sales Tax.

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Done trying to sell on eBay

I've been a registered member of eBay for nearly 26 years, currently have a 100% rating with 1084 comments. I'm done trying to sell on eBay — it's just not worth it. The odds are stacked against the small seller, and buyer's think every small seller ...

Offering discounts

I have a buyer who is interested in three of my listings. I told her to put the items in her cart and request a total from me. My understanding is that I then create an invoice for her. Can I reduce the price of the items that I am selling on the inv...

Protection plans

Why doesn't ebay allow sellers to have an option to add the protection to be included in the sale of their listing. For example I add the protection plan to be included in the sale and when someone buys my listing Ebay removes the cost of the plan in...

Sales tanked immediately after ebay changed up categories and item specifics.

For the first time ever our other selling platforms outsold ebay and those platforms have less then have the items listed. These changes will destroy sellers on ebay. THE DUMBEST decision so far. What kind of people is ebay allowing to come up with t...

Experienced Sellers Question good idea?Delete all listings, relist next day when have free listing?

Shake things up by ending all the listings for 1 day, Next day relist them?Or forget the free listings one has & just keep listings as they are basically showing on the eBaymarketplace doing nothing on eBay with watchers & hits but not sales?We used ...

Bank account

I need to return funds to buyer, added my bank account 2 days ago. Wont let me do refund

Buyer requests payment refund or cancel order because item is local pick up

The buyer did not read that this was local pickup only. I'd like to cancel the order and refund his payment at his request however it gives the message that the refund will be deducted from my available funds. If fund are not available, it will use m...

handling cost box missing & so is the reply button!

Since the REPLY button is missing when I try to reply to a post titled "handling cost" I'll try this! Post is copy/pasted below: I just tried the solution suggested by mega-ma-roo in reply to attic2barn's inquiry and it doesn't work. Clicking the "ha...

taxes tell a tale

I got my business taxes done and spent time comparing figures from the previous couple of years. Compared to 2020 I made more on ebay in 2022 but 2021 sales were bonkers. I basically was able to get my hands on a lot more expensive stuff to sell. Tho...

Ebay protecting buyers who steal its not right

We sold a sub woofer to a buyer and they said it was faulty so we paid $80 to return the item back to , we got the item back a it was a different sub then the one we sent them not even the same model we contacted eBay and they gave the buyer their mo...