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Ebay has become my BIGGEST WASTER of PERSONAL TIME with INFERIOR PACKING SLIPS and MANAGED PAYMENTS

I am so very close to pulling the plug on being a SELLER on Ebay. First, they changed the packing slip and it no longer shows the product sale price and shipping charge. That ADDS two more steps to PROCESSING and PACKING ORDERS for customers. GO BACK...

Best Offer Not Working In Adult Category

I have had several buyers tell me they cannot make an offer on items I have in the adult category. I confirmed with a friend who tried to place an offer, and he said all he got was an error message from eBay when the offer was placed and that the off...

My Sales Tanked, And I Have A Theory

I've been selling for just about 2 years now. I found my niche, developed my business model, refined and worked it. I was doing about 2.5k per month in sales on about 150 listed items, with the usual variation - seasonal and otherwise. I had 100% fee...

Goodbye Ebay 2019. Your policies hurt sellers, defraud them and if that's okay with you, so be it.

eBay has really poor policy protections for sellers. I write this in hopes that you will heed my warnings about eBay if you decide to sell more expensive items in the future. TIPSALWAYS INSURE YOUR PACKAGESJUST BECAUSE SOMEONE PAID on PAYPAL DOES NOT...

My first neutral feedback

Do my best to get items to buyers as inexpensive as possible and sold books and shipped them media mail. Sent a $10.00 refund on over payment on shipping to buyer. Will never send anything media mail again the package went to east coast, then west co...

International Shipping Outside of Global Shipping

Hi, If you belong to the Global Shipping are you still allowed to ship Internationally not using the Global shipping? I have a buyer who wants me to ship it USPS first class instead of Global shipping but when I uncheck Global Shipping it is telling ...

Ebay tracking not automatically transferring to PayPal?

Hi. I have only noticed this issue in the last week or so as I don't sell a lot. However, I never had a problem in the past. Before when I purchased/printed my usps label from eBay it immediately showed on eBay as "on route" and tracking was auto upl...

Sellers have no rights

Why aren't sellers allowed to provide negative feedback for buyers. So unfair! I have buyers who do not pay, I had 100% positive feedback, sold a set of marvel figures that were 4 Inches tall. Listing stated so-also no returns. He sent me NASTY email...

Sourcing, offers, and poorly constructed listings

So I figured out the best place for me to source is the UK eBay site. Most of what I've been buying that's any good is coming from the UK, so it stands to reason I should look there. I looked there a couple of days ago and found an album. There was o...

how to write a product review?

my buyer and i have a good relationship, he agreed to write a review on a product he bought from me. How is that done? what are the steps to write a review? I can't figure out how to do this.

Declining sales continue into 2020???

Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Last year since the holiday season, I have seen a steady decline in my sales figure. Usually after Christmas, business picks up slowly but surely. I used to sell maybe $150-$200 worth of merchandise in 1...

Is there a market for old Kodak photo paper?

I can't quite figure out which forum is the right one to ask - sorry for asking in this more general one. I've got some old Kodak photo paper in various sizes - packages and boxes - that one would use if they had their own darkroom. I'm guessing it w...

2020-01-26 USPS First Class Package Mailing Rates Only Go to 13 Oz.

USPS increased mailing rates go into effect this upcoming Sunday. The revised first class rates are denoted here: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c037 The first class rates only go to 13.0 ounces. Does this mean packages 13.1-15.9 ounc...

Am I average? Total cost as 24% of sale.

This is over, approx, 400 items sold over about 2.5 months. With listing fees, store fees, fvf, certain amount of ads/promotions fees, paypal fees - I am finding all that to average about 19% of each sale.Packing material, trips to PO, paper/printer ...

Didn't pay

Hello ebay community, Can someone tell me how long I should wait if a buyer didn't pay before I relist item and do I need to do anything else with ebay beside relist?ty! zazkat