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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...

Selling on Ebay? NO MORE, Ebay does not protect honest seller!!

Sold a cd box on 5th January, regularly sent via Italian mail registered post. Put tracking number on shipping informations. Package arrived at New York facilities on 19th January and stopped there for customs. After one month buyer opened the case, ...

Store categories - what's the turnaround?

Anybody familiar with eBay store categories knows you get this awesome message each time a change is made: What's the turnaround time before you can make additional changes and delete old categories? It's been a while since I reorg'd store categories...

Diminishing Sales

Over the past couple months we have seen our sales slowly diminish. Call after call with eBay Support, they continuously tell me the same thing: check your seller performance, check your images, optimize your titles, etc. I have done literally everyt...

Buyer Cancels after paying on an auction item, Can I go back to the second highest bidder

So, we put up an item, a heavy metal clock frame, for auction and after a week we had three bidders. The winning bidder paid promptly and we packed it up. We were literally about to take it to the post office, and they asked to cancel due to "high sh...

Fraudulent Offers Bombarding New Sellers

I have been around eBay since 1999, buying and selling, and I recently moved to a new account to more easily organize my efforts selling stamps. What an eye-opener! I have had 6 to 15 'offers' a day bombarding me, all of which ask for phone numbers a...

Scammed out of $1,150.00

Recently listed a computer on Ebay to sell and a buyer won the auction and paid promptly. Right after I received payment, I received another message from a user which I thought was the same person, not really double checking the usernames because the...

I can't sell an item for some PayPal-related reason.

I can't seem to place an offer because it keeps asking me to change my PayPal e-mail address. I don't have a PayPal account, I'm not even using it as a payment option, and when I do try to change it, the option is greyed out.

Packing Standees

I've been advised to post this here, after not realizing I'd put it in the general discussion, a few months back. I've sold a number of standees over the last handful of years, to various points around the world. (Then, I hooked into the Global Shipp...

Resolved! Sent email to buyer

Can I sent item listing links by email to old buyers?

Shipping phone cover to UK

I am a buyer. On eBay.com (the US) site, there is a seller who has a phone cover for an older phone. However, he does n't know how to ship to the UK and also does n't know about costs. He has asked me to do the research. I don't know anything about t...

Seller Help--

Seller Support----- attempted to connect E-Bay seller support for help. Was routed to sites that wanted me to enroll in a $67.00 (every 3 months) to get online assistance. Was told by a phone message that sellers can no longer call directly to E-Bay ...

Listing into the black hole of outer space, that's what if feels like....

I have been forcing myself to continue to list, but it is taking a mammoth effort to force myself to do so. Ebay has been running hot and cold, but mostly very, very cold. I feel like continuing to acquire inventory and to list, is an exercise in fut...

If I leave fraudulent buyer negative feedback, can they leave me negative feedback?

A buyer bought two fountain pens from me a day apart. He decided one did not significantly match the description so wanted to send it back, which I allowed because i knew i could sell it again easily. When I got it back, I refunded his money then dis...

Resolved! Buyer fake address?

Hi! New seller here. Someone recently purchased one of my items off eBay, but hasn’t paid yet. (They have 48 hours or what not.) however when I clicked on their ID to see address it says they’re located within the US, but the actual “Location” says M...

Is there a way to free shopping for buyers on eBay? It takes advantages of eBay return sytem

That's really frustrated and I never saw the customer like this before. I sold an item at Jan 28 and the item was delivered at Feb 1, 2021. On Feb 8, the buyer started a return request without any prior contacting with me. I think it was really a bad...