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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...

Resolved! Making Buyers Nervous

I just had one of the oddest exchanges with a really nice buyer. I sold her a designer toy that I made a nice little profit on despite it being under retail with my current promo. She sent me a message to confirm that it was legit with a link to the ...

scam address

I sold a 360 camera. After researching the eBay forum site, I found that the address has a story. I did contact an eBay representative who advised me not to send a camera and to cancel the transaction. It's what I did. After that, I received negative...

I have the contrary of a situation described here often I can't sell to a country I didn't block!

Hello, A member from Israel contacted me asking why I blocked shipping to their country. I checked my eBay shipping settings and confirmed that, in the Near East region, I have only blocked Lebanon and Iraq. Israel is not listed in my exclusions. The...

Selling of broken tv

I have to sell my Philips Roku tv 32 inches. It tv screen is broken but not from outside. When I switch it on its display is broken. The tv is just 10 days old. Please let me know if I can sell it for its parts.

Ebay slow down for Holiday season

any one exprieince slow down, I have worst sales in 10 years, please let me know what you thing is going on, I think ebay stop promoting, helping only sales pay more for promtions...................

Resolved! Blocked buyer opened a new account and made a purchase.

I had a buyer email me and ask if I accept offers on a cheap $20 item. I looked at current listings. Mine was pretty much around the cheapest one listed. But I replied with an off of $1 off. He answered with, "can I pay you $15, but not through eBay?...

2025 Trends Per Pinterest ---Some sellers might want to take note

I know many of us here do NOT source based on "trends", but some do, and others might discover that they already have some items that fall into one of these trends....so, for those who might see value in this sort of thing (and recognizing that trend...

Resolved! Now I understand why some of you take December off...

It's only the 13th, and already I've gotten one chargeback from someone who "doesn't recognize the transaction". This is not a new user, but an infrequent buyer with only 6 feedback. I also have one INR currently open. The tracking clearly shows it w...

Resolved! Had an auction, buyer hasn't paid...

Had an auction that ended 24 hours ago. The buyer hasn't paid yet, I sent a reminder today. How long do I need to wait? Can I cancel and offer it to the second place bidder? I've been selling a long time and this has never happened to me before. TY.

Does this sound right? 33.3% of sales goes to ebay fees?

My last 5 sales totaled $507.91 (including shipping) but my take home total is $309.21 after shipping and ebay fees. My total shipping costs were $29.15. That leaves $169.55 (33.3%) paid in ebay fees (promoted listings average 10% plus final value fe...

Very Slow Sales

I know that everyone must be tired of hearing this, so please dont' beat me up for it. Our sales here in N.J. have never been so slow. It seems that I always have to refresh page (F5) to proceed when doing anything on EBay. Dont' think it has anythin...

past sales

I have a buyer that just contacted me , it's December, saying he got the wrong item. He won it in June or July. Anyway to see this tranaction?

Offer Settings

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Ugh. Check your listings for CHANGED promotion rates

If I were to gauge my identity as a seller based on how much I identify with the various posts here in the Community, I guess I'd say I'm about 90% cheerleader and 10% disgruntled, because I understand the vast majority of the policies and use that k...

Why are orders for multiple items being split into 2 orders?

This has been happening on a regular basis. An order for 6 different items from the store is split into an order for 2 items, and a separate order for 4 items. Both orders have the same timestamp on the order. Ebay is collecting the 0.40 fee for each...