eBay

sales tax

Don't know if anybody else has noticed. Sales tax is generated by the state a buyer lives in, not the seller. I did not give Ebay authority to put the sales tax in MY (not Ebays) Paypal account which Paypal charges the seller 2.9% of that tax. Called...

Help! Ending Items Unavailable

Hi! I feel my seller feedback is suffering by ME ending my own items that sold. The listings for Buy it Now that are listed as “Active until cancelled” or whatever the term is, when an item sells, and I ship it, the original listing stays listed with...

I'm finding search to be to too narrow due to the new category filters.

I listed Crisloid Bakelite chips this morning and could not find them in search even when I sorted by nearest. Turns out, Ebay was choosing the category "Vintage Manufacture" (I'm not sure how that is even considered a category) instead of showing me...

Bid retraction reason/explanation is not a mandatory field?

Thanks to eBay for providing FedEx as an alternative to USPS

Great that eBay decided to allow sellers to send items by FedEx. Now can eBay make it even better by giving sellers an option for FedEx to pick up the item? That would be awesome.

Anyone remember the old Seller Central?

Just reflecting on the many changes to Ebay through the years. I remember the old Seller Central. I don't recall exactly when that changed but I think it was a few years ago when the Boards were revamped. It may have been earlier than that. Many fond...

Scam buyer

This person recently purchased an item from me. All comments about this person are marked as positive with a green-plus circle. Yet most of them are negative, complaining about him/her not paying and being a scammer. What's going on? Additionally, my...

There will be no Ho Ho Ho this year

I just looked at my stats over last year and I am 60% below from last year. Sales have gone from dismal to just dismal. I have been selling on Ebay since 2000. I can remember when Ebay was it. There was no Amazon, wayfair, and maybe Ali Baba( I would...

21 day payment hold even if tracking info and positive review by buyer

So I have been selling without a problem. Got hit with the 90 day period where money is held until delivered, that hurt for a while but I just kept going. Then finally sold more than 25 items and went past the 90 day period. It was smooth sailing unt...

Scammer or paranoia?

I posted my first sale item yesterday, and the item sold with buy it now for $200 within a few hours. After the sale, I went to the internet to see if there are things I should do to protect my first sale and saw a bunch of stuff about empty box scam...

Rash of unreasonable buyers or just me? VENT

I don't know what it is, the change in the seasons, market woes or just boredom but it seems like there's a lot of whiny buyers making unreasonable demands. Why do people think they will get something that isn't in the photos or description? And then...

Slapped with 3 day suspensin from VeRO when ebay supplied the photos

So I mostly sell printers and have had multiple VeRO complaints from HP. Now I'll admit, the first couple times I thought I had it figured out. The items had long since sold and I figured I had changed enough of how I do things that it was no longer ...