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I'm not a professional reseller, just a guy who has cleaned out his closets and is trying to get a few bucks back on stuff rather than toss things out or send them to the Goodwill. Getting a bit frustrated as this has happened twice within the past 1...

Resolving shipping increases through batch edit

There doesent seem a way to revise shipping weights throught the batch edit tool. Does anyone know of a work-around? Outwardly, Ebay doesent seem to be addressing getting sellers discounts from carriers to make it more of a chance to break even for s...

Buyer scams

A buyer purchased a handbag from me in December. After 30 days she tried to initiate a return. Ebay wisely decided that she was a "remorse buyer" so closed the return in my favor. She THEN bypassed the Ebay system entirely and created a financial dis...

EBay fees

Does eBay offer a location on their website that gives sellers the opportunity to see all the fees deducted from there final winning auction bid price versus amount deposited?

Buyers not paying but shopping your price

I wish you go back to the days where sellers can leave buyers negative in the feedback section this stops are they bought it but when I dug a little deeper I found one cheaper so now I don’t have to buy yours anymore because well I found one cheaper ...

Billing Customer error message

This situation started today - Everytime I want to send an invoice to a customer - I get this message 'Something went wrong - try again later. It's been going for 2 days now. Can anyone help????

Need Store Subscription between Basic and Premium

$21.95 per month vs $59.95 per month. I have over 1000 listings and cannot put them all on ebay due to my 1000 limit. I cant justify the extra $38.00 a month for a few more listings, and certainly not paying .25 each. Sure would like to see Basic go ...

damaged item

I sold a starbucks cup on ebay a couple weeks ago - it was damaged during shipping. No insurance on the item. how do I handle this? Am I responsible after the item has shipped ? my buyer reached out to the post office trying to file a claim but they ...

End result with managed payments versus paypal

While doing/comparing my taxes for 2021 versus 2020 a very interesting change appeared.In 2020 while I had PayPal I was buying 71% of my raw materials on eBay with the money I made on eBay.Additionally I spent the rest of the PayPal money in eBay. Th...

Weird Happenings, Phantom Offers

Is anyone else having strange things happening on their seller page today? Maybe someone can give me some input on these weird happenings that I have never experienced before. It has happened 6 times today, under Tasks to "Respond to 1 offer". I clic...

How should I sell a bunch of media I have no use for?

So, I have a bunch of video games for a console I no longer own, and for a pretty old console. So I just don't want to sell them all individually, deal with seperate shipping etc. And I mostly just want to get rid of them and get my moneys worth. Wou...

Buyer's item hasn't been delivered yet but they are already saying their is a problem with it.

Anyone else experience something like this? I had a buyer purchase a brand new PS5 video game from me. While out this morning, the buyer sends me a message saying the dvd??? (should be blu-ray) is having problems and is freezing up on them and were a...

Automatic relish with price reduction

I "returned" to eBay middle of last year and at that time, it appeared to me as if eBay offered (by default) to auto re-list a listing and reduce the price by N% each time. I would like to do that but I can't find it now. I see where there is the re-...

Are we having another Ship-nado, and why?

I realize big winter storms devastated large swaths of the Eastern half of the US last week, including states that are Southern-enough as to be under-equipped because they don't have to deal with the problem very often (e.g. Kentucky & Tennessee, as ...