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PAYPAL FEES CHARGED TO SELLER FOR SALES TAX PAID BY BUYER

Sales tax paid by the buyer goes to ebay to remit to the buyer's state. If the seller never has it in their possession, why does Paypal charge the seller a fee (3%) on the sales tax that the buyer pays? If you sell a lot or sell high dollar items, th...

“Buyer” scammed me, what can I do as a seller?

I sold a camera lens and the next morning saw a message from the “buyer”, saying his brother was sick so he had to go help him and he requested I mail the package to a new address where his brother was. With all the chaos of the virus stuff going on ...

Resolved! Message from my buyer...

I sold working acer v5 to a buyer week ago.Today the buyer messaged me this :Hello sir,This is the third one of this exact laptop I’ve gotten my son.This one in particular is extremely slow.Way too slow to do his online school work.The exact model an...

Lots of Buyers are Asking for Returns Lately

I've never had issues with returns until the last week of February, then BAM returns out of the woodwork.I've been having issues I've never seen before. Some of these issues are downright dirty and unfair to the seller, but they are allowed. It is a ...

E-Bay, once again no help!

I left E-Bay at one time as a seller and 15yrs. later haven't looked back. First, I was given a negative feedback once as a buyer, which I was told E-Bay didn't allow, but it happened and E-Bay refused to remove it! Then on another occassion, I sold ...

March 2020-private feed back

Has anyone else had a lot of complaints the past month from buyers with private feed back? They always want partial refunds and deal with you rather then open a case. They but a lot of things which must mean they are resellers. But where do they sell...

Buyer Messaged for Refund - Responses below, how would you handle this differently?

I woke up this morning to a refund request from a buyer in the UK. I would like the community to give me ideas on how you would handle it. This was for a cartridge 3ds game only (10.99 +shipping). It went out through the global shipping facility in K...

Buyer purchased an item and then decided to have sent to another address

Hi, so i sold an item and 10 mins afterwards the buyer messaged and said please send to so and so address. I had already printed out the label, attached and packaged. I usually ship immediately, especially now that my job is in on furlough-afterwards...

Selling sports cards

So I’m getting ready to try to sell my entire sports card collection.. about 110,000 worth.. an I better off selling it as one entire lot, a bunch of small lots, or individual? I’m trying to sell them as quickly as I can, and have 2 small kids and wo...

Resolved! Hey eBay. Change the requirement on getting items into the PO within a day.

I am a small seller Usually only an item or 2 and do primarily USPS shipping. Due to the stay-at-home order that I am and am dependant on USPS picking up at my home my few items. I leave therm out for PU but if I do not get mail I do not get a PU. I ...

Just sold an item and I'm losing money. is this right?

So I just sold an item for $475.00 plus $10.99 shipping to Texas. My Paypal also included a $40.09 charge for tax to for a total of $526.08. Then it lists deductions of -$15.56(I assume this is Paypals fee) and -$40.09(which was the tax initially add...

How do I let ebay know that I've shipped and item,

First of all I did not use print labels from e-bay (That was my mistake) I admit.. But the item is shipped and I have a tracking number. So Please tell me Step by Step How do I let e-bay know that I've shipped the item?I know that I need to go to My ...

How to get approved on eBay? (Not a noob)

Hi all, been a member since 2004 and was rather stunned when I saw this message while trying to list a watch from a popular company. ”Your account has not been approved to sell this type of item. You won’t be able to complete this listing, but you’ll...

Buyer Claims We Only Included One of Two Items on order

Hi Sellers Hope all of you are safe and healthy i have a customer claiming we didn’t include one of two items on his order. I know we did. How do I go about dealing with this situation? Thank you in advance for your help.

ebay CoVid19 Sales, More Sellers, More Returns

I've been reviewing posts, forums & talking with sellers & here's what I've foundsales for some are up or steady others have taken a nose diveit's not an easy answerthe variables are due to what you're selling & your price including shipping & return...