Seller News: January 2026
Start the new year with important updates to help your business
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Ebay has started to hold my payments for 3 days after the item is delivered to the buyer. I won't get into that because eBay did this for a **bleep** reason. I can live with that. The problem now is that I have about 15 orders sent via eBay standard ...
Buyer says she never received this item
Hey all. Our local police department has announced that they have established a safe zone for exchanges involving online sales or for custody swaps for children. Complete with video surveillance. Pretty cool!
Hi. I want to know, why eBay allows to list some items in the wrong categories? For example, i search Apple TV media streamer, but found millions of empty boxes on the same category. Is there any way to separate empty boxes and the real device in the...
Hello,I am new to Ebay (6 mo) and in my 2nd month I accidentally listed 7 items with free shipping. The items were purchased and when I noticed my error, I cancelled the orders and notified the buyers of my error. Subsequently I went from Above Avera...
Hi. I received the return request from the buyer with damaged items. And I messaged her for extra photos from the Message the buyer tab. She replied to me but I couldn’t see previous messages and pictures anymore. How can I see them again?
Transaction defect rate 0.00%Late shipment rate 0.00% Tracking uploaded on time and validated 94.61% Cases closed without seller resolution 0.00%Next evaluation Aug 20
I have a buyer that waited until the item was shipped, then they messaged me with a new address. The item was undeliverable, and it is on it's way back to me. If I pay for the shipping to the new address, I will pretty much not make a profit at all a...
Some Sellers are charging a higher price for promoted items. Is that OK to sell that way? For example. Two identical items, and one of them is priced 30% higher to cover the cost of the Ad Rate. Should a seller be allowed to charge more for promoted ...
In 'my ebay - active listings' is there a search that I can find all of my promoted listings? I originally had 1% selected and when it went up to 2%, stopped PL But, I know there are some GTC listings that still have 1% and the blue selection bar sti...
Is it common for an authinticator to buy an item for themselves personally and have the item sent to themselves for authentication? I couldn’t figure out why I was sending the item to be authenticated since the purchase price was below them threshold...
Anyone noticing a trend of lots of international orders? They make a big difference to me. Just had one for a very heavy box of books, too. Occasionally I get questions about how much it costs them and I have to explain I have no control over that. I...
Is there any where to report the issues with offsite ads? The issues are numerous and even dangerous. My main two concerns is that 1. Google only shows my ended listings since I enrolled in the program and the Ad campaign will continue, even if the l...
I'm on a windows 11 PC. When I click on the bell, a pop up appears saying "We ran into a problem and can't show your notifications right now. Cleared cache & cookies but message persists. How to get notifications to show, please?
Anyone have any luck with the automatic markdowns every so many days with the buy it now listings?
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