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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

Ebay fraudulently charged me $20 in some bogus fee

So I've been on here since the 1990s and Ebay decided to not only honor my refund to a buyer but also charge me $20.10 for some bogus nonsense they came up with about settling the final fees with the buyer. And of course I get the message about this ...

Listing Issue

Is something going one with eBay's system? I have been trying to list an item for over a hour. System would not list and there is no error messages. It is just nothing happens as if I did not click on List. I thought I should save a Draft and try aga...

Actual view count

The one great thing about the new way eBay shows everyone the actual real views people get on their listings is that it shows us why sales are lacking. It shows us all what the reality is about eBay. How it has become a small time auction site instea...

Need help with postage issue

Hi,Hopefully someone can help I have tried live support as well but no use. I sold an item it is an AV Amplifier so quite a large bulky and heavy item. This was mentioned in the listing. I sent the item out postage wasn't cheap at £20 due to its weig...

Resolved! Stopping Scam Bidders. Advice please.

My son openned an account last week. His first two sales were to scam bidders. Both were 0 rated and tried to engage him in email conversations about the items after bidding completed. One sent a spoof email purporting to show payment to his PayPal a...

Enormous selling fees?!

I have sold a few things recently, and the ebay total selling cost seems way too high on all of them.I sold a camera for £420, with the 80% selling fee reduction on the 12.5% fee. So with 10.65 postage, and free listing, the costs sould have been (42...

Remember the weird MID tracking from USPS? Here's the latest boondoggle...

Stuck in Portland again. Sep 25, 20225:07amARRIVED AT USPS REGIONAL FACILITYEUGENE OR DISTRIBUTION CENTER, 97401Sep 25, 20221:54amDEPARTED USPS REGIONAL FACILITYMEDFORD OR DISTRIBUTION CENTER, 97501Sep 25, 202212:25amARRIVED AT USPS REGIONAL FACILITY...

Ebay payouts

Its just simply amazing. Ebay takes away PayPal from us so that they can make the money on the payouts now they offer us the option to have it sent to or bank atm card but of course for a extra 1.5 percent. Absolutely ridiculous there not charging us...

Ebay sales just completely shut off for the last two weeks

Very weird that there have been no sales in either of my stores in the last two weeks - what is happening Ebay????

Taxes in USA

Hello guys I am from Sri Lanka. I sell fishing-related stuff exclusively. My preferred market is the USA, and Florida as a niche. Could someone help me to understand what type of taxes are applicable to a USA buyer when purchasing from an overseas bu...

Resolved! Zero feedback non paying buyers, why do they get so long to pay?

May be the buyers first buy on eBay. The buyer is not communicating or paying. I set the cancel settings to my listings if the buyer doesn't pay in 4 days. The buyer has 0 feedback and 0 buys/sells on the account. The account was made last month. I c...

What do you do about a buyer using foul language toward a seller

What do you do about a person using foul language toward you?

Shipping fees

I have a question regarding shipping fees. So far, I have not received an adequate answer from Ebay. When post my auction on Ebay, I tell the buyer they need to pay xxx for shipping. When Ebay calculates my fees, the fee is calculated on the total of...

Can Buyers Get My Real Name

Hey everybody! I just recently opened up another account on ebay for selling and was curious as to one thing. What are the possible ways ebay buyers could by my real name? If I use my ebay id on the shipping label and ship out of a po box I know that...

Resolved! Does Paypal now charge for all payments including family/friends?

Literally the only payments I've received on Paypal since being switched to MP have been from actual family and friends, and the past two (both within the past couple months) had a bite taken out of them. Both family members 'think' they sent it "the...