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Resolved! Cost me more in fees than I earned in sales

I am new to eBay and I feel stupid! I listed 8 items. Sold two, my earnings total $125.00. I have 6 items still active. EBay charged my bank account $22.35 because of fees, shipping charge adjustment. I came here to make money and it cost me money an...

Photos showing black on new postings

Today I created a new posting and the picture is coming up black. I went to an old listing and tried adding a new photo. That came up black. Is this a temporary glitch?

Does putting listing on discount sale make it more visible?

I want to drum up sales on my new store by deeply discounting an item I can move fast. I have 2% promotion turned on already. When I offer a discount does eBay make my listing more visible? Do I rise higher in the search rank? And if so, does the amo...

Singular Winning Bid more than Starting Bid

I have a card listed for 19.99 Auction Starting price. About an hour ago it go its first and only bid just as the auction was ending - and they won at 29.99 rather than the starting price. Why is that? Wouldn’t it normally give it to the winner at cl...

Jewelry Authenticators

I had my diamond ring on sale with provided by GSI certificate. All information for the ring was taken straight from the corticate.Authenticators sent me evaluation which I found rude and unprofessional. They did not provide any information just sayi...

Doesn't it make more sense if buyers were responsible for category fees instead of sellers?

Correct me if im wrong however, I beleive it does.

Store logo: what's best for a store selling in lots of unrelated categories?

I think logos are a good idea - they make me feel I'm dealing with a real person or legitimate business. When I view a listing I usually notice the logo, and some stores have a very specific branding. When I'm buying rocks it makes sense that the sel...

retrieve deleted listings

I accidentally deleted some listings that I meant to relist. Is there any way to retrieve them? Or at least find out what listings were deleted?

Resolved! Feedback Numbers Discrepency

Why do I have 2 different feedback numbers? On my feedback page it is 981 but in my listings where the recent feedback is listed it shows 998.

Will this year (2025) see 1099's for all sellers at $2500?

Having a lower (not low enough in my estimation) sales requirement for getting a 1099 should help getting the garage sale left over sellers off the site once they realize their gross sales totals will be sent to the IRS.Also having to give eBay a lot...

GOOD NEWS - Most items I've ever had listed.... BAD NEWS - Views and Sales are down!

My wife and I have the most items listed on eBay since we have been using it (since 1999). Sales were very good in January, but February has slowed. eBay...please quit messing with the site! Fix the search engine...invest in some advertising for us. ...

Ebay Cap Sellers Traffic

For months, my store get a average of only a 100 views a day. I have coupons, promoted listing, and raised my percentage number in promoted listing. I even went out side of ebay put my store link in other web site, and social media. No matter what I ...

Another Increase in Fees !!!!

Well, here we go again - another increase in selling fees! When will this end? !! I sell in the Collectibles category where the final value fees are increasing from 12.3% to 12.75% beginning Feb. 14, 2023 (with the exception of non-sport trading card...

Resolved! Please help. Return fraud on rare collectors item. How do I proceed.

I sold a rare pack of vintage 1940s playing cards with the tax stamp sealing the pack. Sold within minutes for $125. The guy just opened a return saying he’s been buying this brand for 15 years to send overseas to his family. He always buys them at C...

We Need A True eBay Competitor From China

With more high fee increases on the way, we already had China tank the US stock markets by $1 trillion and put big tech sites scrambling after they put out Deepseek, an open source AI model that was made cheaper but superior to any western AI model. ...