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Packages vs Sales for metric reviews

eBay currently has a 3 month and 12 month review time window to reset seller metrics. If a seller ships 400 packages the seller gets a 3 month review window. If they ship less than 400 they get a 12 month review window. Of course, it is better to hav...

46 year old woman's account suspended for MC224 underage usage violation.

*I had to post this for her because ebay won't allow her to access the ebay community. This is her message below.* Posting this message here as I am getting the standard copy-pasted responses from ebay customer support agents. They rehash that there ...

Seller Status

I have been unfairly disrupted with my business on eBay. My seller status has dropped off Top Rated Seller for no apparent reason. The supervisors I spoke with said I should have not lost my status. It goes back to April. And over 25 sales approximat...

Ebay sneaky tricks to watch out for

A while back ebay announced they are basically abandoning sellers when they removed all of our item specifics and told us to re-enter the information. This was all a push towards forcing us to run ad. campains(intentional), including cpc. If a custom...

Resolved! Listing selling items in different categories

I’m going to list my very first 10 items . As a beginner can I have those 10 items in different categories ? If I do so, does it cause me to suspend my account? Please give me some advice.

Resolved! Coupon question.

I was trying to edit one of my coupons.I clicked on "edit" but some of the things I wanted to edit has a lock symbol and I am unable to make changes.How do I make changes?

OK, this seems to be how the $xx off coupons work...

So I sent a $10 coupon to a trusted customer, and asked him to pick a $5 or less token from the store (which I will include in his next package as he buys weekly, should he be successful in purchasing it with the coupon). He did not complete the purc...

Resolved! Problem with buyer and unable to file unpaid item

Two weeks ago I had a cut glass bowl listed. It received a bid but the bidder sent me a message that she wanted to retract her bid. I was being nice and when ahead and cancelled the bid indicating that it was at the request of the bidder. I relisted ...

Question for the wise

A customer asked for a return thru ebay and I sent the label thru eBay, how do you know the tracking number of the return?

Resolved! Screwed by the "system"

Here's a situation for you - I sold an item (electronic, no less) to a customer. Yes, it is used, and yes, I listed it as such in the ad. Stressed the fact that it was used. The customer received it, and then contacted eBay saying it died after an ho...

Sales

It is really slow so here is a Puzzle to solve in the deadtime. 1. eBay gets 67% + or more of their GMV sales Internationally2. Dollar and Euro reached parity3. Inflation rampant in the US.4. Dollar more and more considered a safe haven not gold anym...

Listing is back up again

I am able to list again...just in case eBay or the other big moderators forgot to tell you.

Resolved! Trying to list items

Is anyone else having a problem listing an item? It seems it is frozen in "fees" before "listing".Tried so many times on 2 different servers. Strange.

not receiving confirmation note from ebay after new item is listed

Promote it!

Is it a coincidence that ever since eBay started this "Promote it" program that my "views" are down about 80%? Before they introduced "promote it" I used to average at least 10 views per listing in a 10 day period. Now I'm averaging less than 2 views...