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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 do I stop the international shipping from checking itself on every listing?

(Un)luck-of-the-draw seller algorithm blackouts

As individual seller blackouts, or curtailed listing exposures, seems to be an always ubiquitous thread here on the boards, I thought I would ask the question: How long do these last? Does anybody know? Ebay admits they exist, and most of us have had...

Claiming a refund for final value fee after reselling item

I very rarely sell so im not familiar with selling processes so ive come a cropper and would appreciate some help... I sold am amazon firestick recently and the buyer emailed me to say they no longer required it. So what i did was relist it and sold ...

it'd be nice

when people win an auction n don't pay i like to send ebay this...high bidder for 4 days, no payment, no response, just wasting my time DO SOMETHING!!! I'm tired of typing this so i'll just copy n paste from now on...put in the TOS 'should a buyer fa...

eBay selling our phones numbers.

I guess I never realized until after reading this most recent agreement update from eBay that they have the right to sell our phone numbers to third parties. Maybe this is where we are all getting our phone troll telemarketer calls from. Nice.

Selling collectable 35mm slides

Notice to new and old sellers: slides very very very rarely sell for more than 5 or 6 cents each - so starting them out at 10 or 25 cents each is a waste of space and your time. Mom's old slide carousel of travel slides will not sell for $100.00 even...

SELLERS TIPS FROM A NUBIE

Tip#5 - Only communicate through the ebay system by clicking on the blue contact buyer tab. Tip#6 - If a buyer wants more pictures only send them through the messaging available by clicking on the blue contact buyer tab even if it only allows you to ...

Should I overcharge my items or be fair?

So there's some items I got from another store that had some items that were out of stock, in this case, there were some wagons from the Bachmann Thomas range that were sold out from major retailers (I paid only $22 each, and sold them at the retail ...

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...