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1099K The (helpful) expense report. Why are they not deducting the buyer paid sales tax of the

gross sales amount? Yes, I have kept spreadsheets of my buy in cost, then on a ledger (old school by hand) I went and documents the gross amount of the sale, less buyer paid tax, less my shipping expense, less my ebay fees for my total profit per ite...

Resolved! Buyers Item Was Stolen Upon Delivery

Hi there! I had a buyer reach out, saying they wished I had updated my shipping to require a signature upon delivery and messaged them, as the item was stolen from them after it was delivered. I told them I'm so sorry, and to contact ebay regarding t...

Partial refund

New seller here and need to issue partial refund. Cant fined in drop down refund as instructed, can some one help me please. No way to rich out to eBay customer service. Thank you.

Resolved! Whats up with these buyer, Twice?

I listed an item last year, 7 day auction, starting price of $24.95. The completed listings showed one of these items selling recently for $75. I got all kinds of views and watchers but in the end, no bids. I extended the auction another 7 days and l...

Russian buyer quandary!

I just received a message from a buyer making me an offer for an item. Normally when this happens it's a joke lowball because I have 'Make Offer' enabled but with an auto-minimum setting, so they must have used up their 5 attempts. But occasionally t...

Resolved! Buyer contacted me a week later stating a book was damaged but it was not damaged when I sent it out

I have a video of me flipping through the book and the book had no markings or anything in the book.The buyer waited until 6 days after they received it stating the book had some markings in it when it clearly didn't have any marks in it when I shipp...

Effective price drop?

When is the most effective time to discount an item and by how much?Thanks everyone! https://www.ebay.com/itm/235922719228

Header or description error on some listings

My Printify account informed that some of my listings may be improper but not telling how can I fix.Can you please check these and comment? Header:利‍ Elven Hunter Unisex Softstyle T-Shirt 利‍Description:mbrace the mystical world of elves with this Elv...

Will the buyer be refunded the Fee Credits?

I'm selling an item and I need to cancel the order. When I review the payment amount, it specifies $91.03 in final value fees. Will the buyer be refunded these fees, or just the $644.33? I want to make sure that they won't get screwed out of this mon...

Phishing Scam

A user sent me an email within the Ebay system to update my user information in order to sell an item. None of the URL addresses are Ebay addresses. The email wants me to click on a mixed letter address. This looks like a phishing scam and I would li...

e-bay selling fees make loyal customers leave

I have been on e-bay for the past 18 years starting with one item over time its now grown to just short of 3000 lines I have to say after speaking to e-bay today its maybe time for me to leave e-bay and start my own on-line store The charges from e-b...

1099 tax statement for 2024

Please tell me the amount for this year ? Well eBay mail me the 1099 ?Thanks, Phil Gibbs

Resolved! Ebay charging the incorrect promotional fee.

Hello,I am wondering if anyone else has had issues with being charged the incorrect promotional fee? I was recently made aware of an issue regarding ebay charging the incorrect promotional fee to sellers. A couple of other sellers that I know and I h...

Trump tax 25% on Canada - Who is collecting?

I am considering to put the store on vacation for the next few days, I doubt there will be many cross border orders anyhow, to avoid the chaos. I don't want buyers to refuse packages and me have to pay return shipping cross border. Any news from ebay...

So are Ebay's Canadian sellers all basically going to go out of business now?

From what I understand most Canadian ebay sellers do most of their business with America, already at a disadvantage due to higher postal costs. From what I also understand the new 25 percent Tariff on Canada to the US has no minimum order price and t...