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Update on Current Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) Renewal Issue

Dear Sellers, We are currently experiencing a technical data processing delay that has temporarily impacted the timely processing of some Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) renewals, affecting the visibility of certain seller listings and listing count on Act...

How is this possible? 262 views

I have listed a vintage product several times. Never sold. I get over 200 views. Today it's at 262 views. No watches, no bids, no sales.How is it possible to get that many views each time listing and no one buys?

Resolved! Cancelling Order and Relisting

I tried to call eBay to see if I was in the wrong on this one, but seems they are still not taking calls do to COVID. Here's the situation. The non-profit I work for was gifted a watch collection. We've had it for years and during the quarantine we c...

23 years buying on eBay & just received my first empty package.

So I guess it's not just an urban myth after all. USPS just delivered a small empty bubble mailer that was supposed to have art supplies inside. It looks like maybe the adhesive came undone and the contents fell out. I just reached out to the seller ...

Transferring money from Ebay Managed Payments to my Paypal account

I am in the UK and have a question about managed payments. As the Ebay.com site has already got a lot of sellers signed up for this I thought you could help? I have received a number of emails encouraging me to register for Ebay Managed Payments. The...

Offensive Materials Policy Update

We are continuing to evolve our Offensive Materials Policy to specify that certain items are prohibited. This includes items in the Black Americana category that portray negativity or stereotypes based on race or ethnicity, such as items that use car...

Ebay not collecting CA sales tax

I've noticed that as of May ebay has not collected California sales tax on items I sold to buyers in CA. This is an issue for me as I have a resellers permit in California, and am responsible for collecting it if ebay doesn't. A phone call ended up g...

Taxes

I'm in the state of Missouri and sold an item to a customer in Costa Rica. The shipment is going to a forwarder in Florida. Do I charge tax? If so, for which state?

Sensitive subject Trigger warning

No easy way to type this so I'm going to just go for it. I need a historical expert to look at a specific item for me. This item has been in my family from the time period of 1930 - present day. I no longer wish to have this item, but I think the his...

Buyers questions about my listings - Now I see why!!

At least twice a week I get questions from buyers where the information they seek is right in the listing. I usually figure they are one of those see the photo, buy, don't read types, answer the questions and hope for a sale. Had another buyer yester...

Resolved! My Sold Items Not Appearing In "Sold" or "Completed" Searches

Hi All, I noticed that although I have sold some GTC items, they do not show up in completed listings searches. Others can see them, but pretty much only by going to the direct link as far as I know.https://www.ebay.com/itm/174258107310 I noticed tha...

1099-k

Doing taxes, just want to make sure I do it right. On the 1099-k each total of each month includes cost of the sale and shipping and taxes that was collected by ebay and ebay submitted is that correct.

Sanitation product question

I'm a seller on Ebay and have a question... I want to help buyers during this pandemic and was wondering something. I have extra household products like Microban sanitizer spray, microban all purpose and bath room cleaner and wipes as well. Is it ok ...

Ebay shipping times all over the map

I can see why buyers can be perturbed when they don't get there items when expected and why sellers may get undeserved dings for not shipping on time. I sold 3 items to the same individual in 2 separate orders today. I have 10 days business days hand...

International Sellers are really struggling on the dot-com site.

So I purchased some coins from a seller in Lithuania in April. I've bought from him before with no problems. He shipped these coins by registered mail, so at very least I know something was dispatched to Canada at the end of April. Later in May, my p...

Why take my selling fees BEFORE you release my funds?

I recently sold 2 expensive items on eBay, averaging about $2,000 each. I am a "casual user" of eBay. I used eBay to print the shipping labels for both item, and tracking worked flawlessly. The buyers received their items and I received positive feed...