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Resolved! Feedback Extortion

I have a free 30 day return policy where I pay for the return shipping and can cover the buyers original shipping costs also. Was wondering if other sellers have experienced a rise in feedback extortion. The subtle language of either I "do the right ...

positive news on sales, for once. Not a question.

My payout runs from Christmas Eve to New Years Eve this year and it's a good one, the best since August. I'm hoping that bodes well for sales in January which are usually better than normal. I have been listing more things than I regularly do and bei...

Beneficial Owners Information Reporting (For Sellers Operating a Business)

My CPA brought this to my attention yesterday in an email. I had no idea this was something I needed to do, so I am just sharing in case you do not know about either If you are a business owner you can learn more and file your report here: https://fi...

First time ebay ever did this to me, as far as I know

An ebay message failed to get forwarded to my gmail inbox. I luckily was able to find it in my ebay messages console within ebay, I rarely scan there for unread messages since everything gets forwarded to my gmail inbox and managing my messages thru ...

Resolved! Ebay should consider cutting a deal with USPS like Poshmark has to bring back the buyers!!

Poshmark charges a flat USPS priority mail shipping rate of $7.95 to it's buyers for up to 5 lb packages. Why on earth doesn't Ebay negotiate a deal like this with USPS?!! To ship a 1 1/2 lb package from MA to CA is almost $20 using the current shipp...

Ebay refund buyer when item is in transit

Hi guys. I recently did vinyl pre-sale. Items were listed in details that its pre-sale and will ship out the next business day. I have been communicating with the buyer because he/she did not see any shipping update after 2 week. I notified the buyer...

the year without a Christmas

I've sold online for the past 24 years and this was the first year ever with basically no Christmas rush the first week or two of this Month. My friend in the business experienced the same. She really put in the hours all Fall to beef up her inventor...

Does anyone know if ebay still has/uses Trading Assistants?

Due to health and mobility issues I am in desperate need of an eBay trading assistants. Does anyone know if this service still exist here or if anyone can recommend a dependable consigner? It would be for Miami, Florida. Thank you for reading. I anxi...

bank account verification

is anyone else having trouble with the bank verification process? I got a message asking for bank account verification - I entered the same information for the account Ive been using since I started with eBay and was told repeatedly they could not ve...

Combining multiple orders from different buyers to ebay global shipping?

Every so often i get multiple orders to different buyers all going to ebay global shipping. Has anyone packed and labeled each box, put them all in a larger box and just shipped to eIS 110 Internationale BlvdMultiple packages, open and seperateGlenda...

Resolved! Cancelling a sale.

Hi Guys, For the 1st. time in 13yrs. i have to cancel a sale due to out of stock. To tell the truth I just dont' know what happened. I simply cant find the item. I deal with lots of small items of different styles & sizes. I guess that it was bound t...

Accepted offer expired

When an "accepted offer" expired without a response, the system still registered it as a sale. Is there a way to remove an expired offer that didn't sell? Has this happened to anyone else? For example, I had a kettle listed, and the accepted offer ex...

Help answering email from customer

I have just listed a cell phone. I never have listed one before. It is my old personal phone. Buyer wants me to send screenshot of the "About phone" screen. This screen contains the serial number and IMEI. Should I provide it? If not, how should I re...

Why Store Sellers Sales Are Down and What They Don't Tell You.

This is from a buyers position at attempting to purchase 5 Hot Rod Magazines(monthly issues). The seller who is selling them offered at what I considered reasonable price. 5.00ea. and if you were to buy only 1 shipping is 6.80(fair price) so If I buy...

Resolved! eBay, please stop darkening photo backgrounds

@shipscript (and others interested in photo quality), This topic got considerable notice back in December, but quickly branched into other discussions. What I'm talking about is the uniform way that eBay post-processes images to darken the background...