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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...

The worst experience I’ve ever had. Can’t wait to close the account.

When I hear the name ebay or see the app on my phone I get instantly mad. I’ve waited 30 days for a payout and on day 30 they want a 2ed copy of my ID witch puts my account in restricted for 72 hours. First thing, If I knew that I was going to have t...

Resolved! Listing pulled on "safety" grounds

Anyone had weird experience with eBay pulling a listing on so called safety issues? I listed a manual folding bicycle on which bidding had started. Suddenly pulled by them on the basis of an OECD directive about a German ruling on issues with electri...

Resolved! Selling Limit for a Business account

Hello all,Can someone explain to me why as a new business account holder I can't sell more than 3 item monthly?If a business seller is only allowed to sell 3 items monthly, then this is not a business account? Best Regards

Refunded wrong buyer

I was contacted by a buyer who did not receive their item, so I immediately refunded their money. However, upon a second look I discovered I refunded the wrong person. I am not sure how to go about handling this situation, as far as contacting the pe...

Boot the E-Packet Lobby that favors Chinese Sellers shipping costs, and watch stock price improve?

Chinese Sellers have a trade advantage with a US based ebay seller called "e-packet," and this is the primary means by which low priced items in like electronics, phones -- or the random stuff in your drawer you'd like to get rid of -- are offered wi...

Don't waste your time reporting anything as eBay no longer does anything about it.

Firstly, I don't report much but several weeks ago I found a new seller violating several areas on a fake certified coin in my main category of selling. Reported and nothing has been done and the listing is still up today. It's really a slap in the f...

Store Subscription Savings

Just curious, is there a way to see how much I have saved in total fees by having a store subscription? Or would I have to keep track of it manually?

Resolved! My items have zero viewers

I have not had any views in over 3 weeks. I even tried promoting but have the same results. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

Resolved! How do i see how long my items have been active on the site?

I'm trying to revive some older listings so i am going to end them and relist with sell similar but i'm struggling to find a way to figure out how long items have been up. Obviously if i sort by time remaining it will tell me which ones are "newest" ...

How to deal with a scammer?

I had a buyer purchase a lot of 24 Blue Ray DVD's of which I also sent him 2 new sealed ones as a courtesy and a thank you, along with free shipping. Once he received the item, he claimed that 20 of the Blue Ray Discs were missing and that we had sen...

Adding to ship costs...?

It's been a while since I sold on Ebay. I remember being able to add a bit to the calculated shipping cost to cover my ship box costs. Now when I list list an item, Ebay calculates the ship costs, but it seems to charge the customer my actual ship co...

Resolved! Gift cards

Just wondering if anyone knows why gift cards can't be shipped in a standard envelope? There's no option in the shipping obviously. Or could I just put them in an envelope and mark as shipped?

Number of items to ship - App vs Website are different

The App says I have 8 items to ship, the website on desktop says 7. The truth is I have 8 items & 7 orders. Why on earth, when eBay is trying to create a Unified Listing tool, can they not do something a simple as synching how the app & the website c...

Google search doesn`t bring ebay`s listings, but competitors and even Aliexpress

I was curious about some contemporary (founded in 2016) French leather bag I saw on some Youtube channel, and googled it first. The search brought listings from a few platforms (even one with less fees than ebay`s) and a few listings from Aliexpress....

Resolved! Preventing scammers

I'm pretty new to eBay, only made two successful sales but trying to learn and grow. Seems like I'm getting targeted by scammers since I'm new - they make an offer, I accept, then they write me saying "they have a question" and give me a number for m...