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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...

2020 Spring Seller Update - Wed, Feb 26

It's a busy week here at eBay HQ, so be sure to stay connected! Tomorrow at 11 am PT is our first virtual Seller Town Hall right here on Community, and on Wednesday, we release our Spring Seller Update. The dedicated discussion boards for the Seller ...

Best Match searches, Showing "best matches" I am calling bleep.

I have been selling on eBay 15+ years and been a Top Rated Seller since the program started. Go back 4-5 years I had 100 listing maybe 600 items for sale and sales every month from 20,000 to $40,000 consisitently. I once got an award from eBay for do...

Promoted and non-promoted listings sometimes don't appear within a search even with exact titling

Over the last month, I've been doing promoted listings on about 400 items. In some cases, one or two of my items that include the same words in their title will appear in the first page of items, but 95% will not appear until later pages or not at al...

SELLERS BEWARE - ebay system does not provide adequate protections for sellers - more tips

Can you believe anyone can learn this much in less than a week?!TIP#4 Always generate an invoice and only ship to the address that the ebay system generates. One of my buyers wanted to ship to a different address (in Louisiana) and the ship to addres...

SELLERS BEWARE - EBAY SYSTEM DOES NOT ADEQUATELY PROTECT SELLERS - additional tips from a nubie

Tip # 3 Your ebay member since date can increase your likelihood of being targeted for fraud. I listed 15 high ticket items within my first 2 days of starting to sell on ebay. Within hours I had offers (from 4 different buyers) for 10 of the 15 and a...

SELLERS BEWARE- the ebay system does not have adequate safeguards for sellers

Sellers are told to use the ebay system for all activity but in the less than 1 week that I have been selling on ebay, I have found that the system does not provide adequate safeguards for sellers. Here are some tips for sellers:TIP #1 - the email/ph...

"Sold Via Promoted Listings" undermy item sold. Have ?

If all my listings are promoted, how can I have the 'sold via promoted listings' showing under the item sold in orders on some and not all? I don't get it. If all my listings are promoted, wouldn't every one be found by the buyer as a promoted listin...

Price fixing question.

I sell an item where i have 2 competitors selling the same item. 1 seller has his item priced right (where i would like to sell mine at) but nobody is buying from him because he's higher. The other seller keeps under cutting me, sometimes by just 1 c...

Possible scammer

How can I email ebay about a possible scammer?This guy had the nerve to tell me he didn't have paypal in his country (Turkey) and wanted my banking info! Also, one page says he's located in U.S. another says he's in Turkey!!

eBay adding a Best Offer option to my listings without authorization is a disservice to everyone

I rarely use Best Offers on my listings because I am already selling many of my items at very low prices. Many are just above my cost so I don't plan to lose anymore money on these listings. If I do have a Best Offer I always set my auto decline poin...

Resolved! Scam?

Hello- This is my first time using Ebay and I listed some Coach purses yesterday with the auction starting at $50. Within a few hours I received an offer for $100 with the following message: "I'm interested in buying your item as gift and i will make...

Question for all the sellers

If you can suggest one change that eBay can reasonably make to better serve all sellers, and not just a sub category of sellers, what would that suggestion be? And please do not make it a simple blank statement like "lower their fees". I love idea sh...

2nd time in a week same buyer wants to cancel a bid

I have a potential buyer who asked me to cancel a bid as she’d bought the same item from another seller. I did cancel that bid.Today I have another message from the same buyer asking to cancel her bid on a different item I’m selling for the same reas...

Sending Offers

I have decided to send offers to buyers who either are watching an item or have it in their cart. I understand the potential negative aspects to this, so I do not need advice on that. My question is, how many times will ebay allow me to send an offer...

Resolved! GTC = The end of My Business

I've been selling on eBay for over 15 years..I'm a Top Rated Plus Seller with over 3100 positive feed backs, and I have a 100% positive rating. I pay close to $1000 a month or more in selling fees, and I have a store subscription... I really, really ...