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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

Ebay Sent Me A Survey Asking How They Are Doing..

I received a survey asking how I think "Ebay" is doing. Well, besides Ebay becoming a complete waste of my time, with practically zero sales now, I'd say they are doing quite poorly. Maybe that is just me though. Just curious, did anyone else receive...

Service Metrics Penalty - ebay needs to rethink this

I don't know what's going on lately but my returns have all been false SNAD and it's going against my service metrics. I'm scared I'm going to be paying the 4% penalty come Oct and ebay is useless to help. So a buyer recently did a return for "doesn'...

Opinions and Suggestions on how to deal with a Buyer

This "person" purchased something from me. In the process of it getting to them USPS busted the box open and some items went MIA.No problem I thought. I paid for return shipping and issued a full refund once I received package back from the buyer.My ...

No sales? 4-Day Guaranteed Delivery search filter excudes almost everything including 1, 2 and 3-day

4-Day Guaranteed Delivery search filter excudes almost everything including 1, 2 and 3-day Guaranteed items!(Posting ID here)All my items are GD in 4 days or less but they are all excuded from search results when the 4-Day option is checked in search...

buyer opened a return request "doesn't seem authentic" and then never returned item

I had a buyer recently open a return request "doesn't seem authentic" they selected. I approved the return as soon as I got it and provided a label. Under the case information it says "If the buyer doesn't send the item back by Mar 12 we may close th...

Coronavirus ... the POSITIVE side!

If you own a Pizza shop or other home delivery food vending service get ready for a near term BOOM! Many schools in our area are closed today and may extend closures for the near term ... and our county has NO confirmed cases of Coronavirus. Gatherin...

any input on Jane's transportation books?

Anyone familiar with these (very large reference books on transportation). I have some to maybe sell for my library. I've found some sold history for the "Fighting Ships" series but only one "World Railways". I wonder if the "World Railways" books wo...

Ebay Classifieds

I've been trying to figure out how to post an ebay classified ad for the $9.95 a month fee. I'm not referring to close5 but to the ad that would show nationwide. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Feedback not left by buyers, Ask eBay to help fix

I would like eBay and the other eBay members who read this to ask eBay to Auto-Leave Positive feedback for items that sellers buy and have no complaints with after 30 days of delivery. I don't really sell a lot but out of 60 items sold I may get 15 P...

Resolved! Fantastic new glitch or working the way we want?

Buyer "purchases" item, doesn't pay, UPI opens, I close UPI get FVF back, buyer immediately opens case for not arrived yet? How is this even possible? Overseas CSR is zero help like I assumed. My three options are: Send a message to the buyerAdd trac...

can you still block certain buyers?

I want to list an authenticated handbag.... how can I protect myself? reading about people who steal items here with impunity makes me very cautious to list anything over $75. any advice?

Does the seller violate ebay's policy

Someone is selling something not at a very competitive price but I see that he has 100+ sold while most of the other sellers don't. However, from the purchase history I can believe that he has edited the description and titles. i.e Price 6x times low...

item not as described

i sold a gold plated coin. Says on first sentence gold plated they opened item not as described saying its not a gold coin. What to do?

3rd Day New Year-No Sales Is This What 2020 Will Look Like?

So sad to not have any sales yet. Past every month in 2019 gave me one sale at least on day #1 of new month. Yucky New Year? Ebay earned 80% less from me last year. I refuse to accept the blame. God help us, maybe this year a ballsy leader will chang...

Ebay now collects sales tax for my nexus state (CA) how does this change our sales tax reporting?

Ebay has now begun collecting sales tax for California 10-1-19. I was under the impression we would be responsible for collecting tax on our home base (nexus) state. Since CA is my nexus State it presents problems with completing my sales tax report....