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Honoring remorse returns but having your listing set to no returns.

My friend (we'll call him Al Bundy) bought a car part from eBay and asked me some interesting questions about his seller. The seller has the listing at no returns accepted, but when Al messaged him about what if the car part doesn’t fit the seller re...

eBay's inflexibility is NOT "Enhancing the Buying experience ... "

-Buyer purchases an item then AFTER they pay asks to have the shipment delayed 4 days ... errnt, I have one day Handling, no can do. eBay never implemented the Pause button that was suggested, had to message and eventually call the Buyer to explain e...

Repercussions of a purposeful mislabel?

So I was looking at the sellers fees on items an they're substantial however with certain categories of items they're bery little or nonexistent (shoes, art etc). What would be the consequences of purposely listing an item in lets say the men's shoes...

What are the main differences between an Individual selling account and a Business selling account?

I recently had to switch to a business selling account in order to be able to combine shipping or reduce shipping charges on multiples of the same item so that buyers when purchasing several of the same item only have to pay shipping once and then sl...

Resolved! Item limit....

It says I can list 250 items free a month but then it says my item limit is 5. Ok that's fine, except for it only let me list 4. Why?

Resolved! Start selling!))

How best to start selling on ebay. I have just started selling on ebay and have already put up my first listing. And as I already read on the forum that it is better to start with a cheap product. When is the best time to display the second and third...

Resolved! Buyer asking to purchase item that already sold

I received a message from a buyer today asking if an item was still available, because he was very interested in it and wanted to buy it. The item in question is a watch that I sold over a month ago for $70.00, so not a high-dollar item that I'd expe...

Sold items

Hey guys, I am new to selling on Ebay. I've heard people talking about checking out things that have sold well on Ebay. How do I do that? I can't figure out where to go! Thank you!!

eBay incentivizes sellers

Found this statement in an article about eBay Tech, Simplifying Shipping Signals on eBay (ebayinc.com) "This prominent display of shipping speed also incentivizes sellers to offer faster service. eBay’s retail standards threshold is four days in the ...

Buyer From Another Country Wants a Refund from a order that is over 6 months old

So back around late last year, a buyer from Argentina bought an item from me and I got a message from the buyer saying that they want a refund as they got a message that the item is going back to me thanks to the outbreak. But the problem is that the...

FIRING PAY PAL ONCE AND FOR ALL

For over 20 years, I had an account with them....maybe I can use an alternate type of payment forum like pay pal...not Venmo because pay pal owns them...zelle? Any suggestions? ThaNKS

100 Clothing Listings a Day ---- How the bleep!!!!!

I see all these Youtubers stating that they can list 100 clothing items a day. Well, having timed myself, I can only manage 3 per hour quality listings. Steps include" 1) Quickly steam out wrinkles2) Flat lay or place on mannequin 3) Take and edit ph...

How to exclude certain countries for all listings?

So I want to block South America from my listings thanks to a few strings of bad luck that either items aren't shipped and customers complaining that the items never made it. The problem is that you can only do it separately and I want my account to ...

Auctions won't relist for free anymore??? Am I the only one experiencing this

Hi, I've been selling on ebay for almost a year and I always had 7-day auctions automatically relist and they would relist for free (not taking away from my 250 free insertion credits per month, except for the original listing and then after the 4th ...

How do you find online chat help? Ebay seems to go out of their way to keep this feature hidden.

Help! I'm trying to deal with a buyer that says he "bid by mistake" on an item that he has now won from me with the winning bid. I've tasked him with canceling/retracting his bid, to no avail. I'd like to relist the item, but I'm stuck in Limbo and c...