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To Respond, Or Not To Respond (To Unsolicited Offers)... That Is The Question! 🤔

To [Respond], or not to [Respond]: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous [unsolicited offers], or to take arms against a sea of [buyers], and by opposing end them? I hope you enjoyed readi...

Finding amazing things when you least expect to

True story... and I am hoping that others can share theirs. I recently wrote about finding an old pickle jar at an out-of-the-way thrift shop. A day or two later, I went back to the same little shop... what the hell, I was in the neighborhood and it ...

Accepted Counter Offers from Buyers not showing up a Pending Payment

Best Offer Issue Situation: I regularly send offers, buyers counter...but over the last 7 days, I accepted counter offers and then they go into the ether...they dont show up as Awaiting Payment, Waiting for Payment, etc. they just kind of disappear. ...

Customer address invalid when I try to print the label

The customer has a feedback rating of 16, so this shouldn't be an issue, but when I try to print the label, it says that the address is invalid. I've sent him a message, but if I don't upload the tracking today, I will receive a late shipment ding. H...

Is there an insertion fee glitch going on right now?

I have a store and should not be getting insertion fees every time I list.

Weird feelings about a buyer

I have a buyer who said they got a new computer and it some how signed them into a new account. I told them I would still ship but I would do it under a signature request upon arrival. They haven't answered me what do you guys think? Even when I look...

Views

I really think Ebay has something to do with people not getting any views.I have listed item that normally sell and yet list them for 7 days and not a single view.I'm not the only one saying this either.There no other reason other than Ebay is jackin...

inventory work shocker

Last year I quit Amazon and since then have been laborously inventorying my whole collection to find books to list on Ebay. I put slips in books so I could tell what had never been on Ebay and what had been here roughly a year ago and older. The shoc...

Where did the bulk of your packages go this week?

Most of mine went to the South - especially Florida and the Miami area...

question about setting up a sale

It's been a minute since I ran a sale and I ran into a problem. When it came to selecting listings it was oldest to newest which I wanted but also selected only 200. How do you edit that to select more?

Ended listings are not in the unsold tab

I just ended a bunch of listings so I could "relist/sell similar" and then went to my unsold menu. I relisted about 4 of them and the rest literally disappeared. Has this happened to anyone? Now my listings are gone and I don't even know which I had ...

Selling higher priced item

Ì am selling a stamp worth $550 and am wondering what do you use to protect yourself from the item getting lost or damaged? I see insurance is good for $100.

May Experiment: Ended promotions, sales up 16%

April, May and June are typically kinda slow for me. I decided to try an experiment, on April 30 I ended all my promotions on all my listings, which had been at 2% across the board for a couple of years. I know the month of May isn’t over yet, but as...

Seller Performance Deficits are Out Dated

As a brick and mortar multichannel retailer that has over 25 years in retail, I want to raise a concern about eBay’s current out-of-stock (OOS) defect policy — specifically the 0.50% threshold. In traditional retail, an 8–10% OOS rate is considered s...

U.S. Sellers: Have you sold your items to at least one buyer in all 50 states?

The only states I have NOT had a buyer from (yet) and I've been on eBay for over 25 years: AlaskaMontanaNorth Dakota I'm just curious if any of you kept track of where you sent your items all over the country. Regardless of how long you've been selli...