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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...

Problem with eBay Global Shipping when using "make offer" feature

Is this happening to anyone else? How did you solve it? Background: All my listings are GSP only for international sales. All my listings are in the Buy It Now/Maker Offer format. When an international buyer uses BIN, all works as planned. If they ma...

Is This What eBay Has Become?

https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/06/ebay-staff-sent-spiders-roaches-to-harass-couple-authorities-say.html

Sellers Beware! eBay does NOT have your back!

I've been an active member of eBay for about 2 decades and have finally had enough on the sales side. After getting back several returned items, I will no longer sell on eBay. Buyers hold all the cards. Ebay's policies are not your friend. Do your ho...

Return request from zero feedback buyer (possible fraud)

Hi,I have a non-business account for over 10 years with 100% feedback (it's my other account which I mostly sell, not this one I'm posting) and I have never been in this situation againA zero feedback buyer asks for return claiming that the item 'doe...