eBay

eBay closed a case while my return is still in transit

I hope that I’m able to get some sort of good news about this. I had printed the shipping label myself, paid for the shipping, contacted the seller, provided a tracking number. I believe I’ve done all I could, however USPS is indicating that my retur...

Should eBay learn some history?

eBay will warn you or even punish you if you don't do things their way. But on the other hand, eBay is clueless about what is going on or how things are. For example, I have some things I want to list that were made in Czarist Russia and the Soviet U...

PLEASE READ!!! Ebay has no legal authority to require or demand the disclosure of a persons SSN

Pursuant to 42 USC 408(a)(8) which states in pertinent part: ”whoever...compels the disclosure of the social security number of any person in violation of the laws of the United States; shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction there of shall b...

Buyer using shipping and return policy to rip off people

Lets be clear I am not a regular seller or very sauvy when it comes to ebay. I just sold a bike I shipped the bike for $75 dollars and they immediately after for a full refund and return because it was missing a dust cap and bearings are gritty. This...

I had $2,200.00 in eBay gift cards stolen from me

How do you explain this USPS tracking debacle?

Shipment was to my daughter, who helped on her end. Tracking showed USPS delivered on Sat., the 13th, but D said she didn't get the package. She called her post office today and they told her they were able to see that " the truck was no where near h...

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...