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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...

Buyer negotiated price, then bought at original price and wants me to send PayPal partial refund

A buyer negotiated a price lower than my list price through messages (it didn't have Best Offer at the time). But before I had a chance to add Best Offer or even reply to her message she immediately bought the item and wants me to send her the differ...

Vacation Settings

Why bother setting vacations that state shipping to be delayed with the return date when Ebay still marks you late shipping? Spoke with Rep after a 20 minute hold and said she would fix it for that week but never done. I guess next time I will CLOSE ...

My item was purchased by a scammer. What are my options?

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to eBay and listed an item for an auction at $81. I received an offer for $140.. (which to me seemed too high but I accepted thinking I got a great deal). Anyway, I was immediately pretty skeptical because it was purchased fo...

50 sales to 1 Ratio Sales Drop -Ebay Versus our Amazon Acct

Ok, How can it be ? Yes it is A true number 50 to 1 ration !!!Over the Last 4 Days, For Every one sale on Ebay we are having 50 On Amazon. Same Products, Same Pricing.This is very sad to see. We want to continue to grow our ebay store. But if it is n...

So who else is weighing to stay or to go?

Just curious how many other's are weighing between staying or who else is already working thru getting everything they have on hand not listed to get listed to get rid of what they have left and to be done with selling here or reselling in general? A...

Why does ebay even answer the phone

Why does ebay even answer their phones if all they plan on doing is lie to you. Wouldnt you save money by not having all the employees telling us sellers one thing and ebay does the opposite of what was told to you. I have called ebay 4x about a buye...

Tipping Time

I know, I'll get comments about how some postal employees don't deserve a tip. Fine. But if you appreciate the people who deliver and pick up your mail, or even if you want better service from them, now is the time to tip. We get excellent service fr...

Confused about "Best Offer" limit

Hi, I'm confused about how many "best offers" I can receive for an item. A potential buyer sent me 5 lowball Best Offers on a Vintage item that I have listed as a Buy It Now. I declined them all. As I understand it, that buyer has reached his limit o...

Paypal dispute, but nothing from ebay

I received no notifications from either. I just happened to be looking in my paypal activity and saw that a buyer requested a refund 2 months ago in october. So I matched up the ebay item and went looking. Nothing, nada, no mention on ebay of it at a...

Volume pricing

When you offer volume pricing ---can anyone tell me where it shows up in the listing for the customer---I revised all of my listings to offer Volume pricing & I do not see it on any of my listings---Thanks

Would you unblock this guy?

A few times a buyer can confuse the Navy Blue shirts I sell to look like Black because they are so dark. I usually tell them to look at the underside of the shirt since it tends to be a bit lighter to see that it is not Black, it's Blue. Most of the ...

Paypal Fees on month end reports incorrect starting Nov 19

Has anyone else noticed that Paypal fees amount on the Monthly Sales Report is wrong now, including the sales tax collected. My paypal fees run about 4% of my proceeds and on the November report, they were at about 8%. I called paypal and they don't ...

Resolved! Ebay please give us free listings

Just because the holidays are here. Please give us additional listings so we an make more money for ourselves and you. ThanksBella

SLOWEST SALES IN MY 5 YEARS OF SELLING (ME THINKING REASONS)

This is my slowest sales year ever. You would think my first year would be. But my last 2 years are. Me thinking reasons. E bay dose not advertise themselves thru internet search. They want sellers to buy promoted listings to do it. 3 years ago if I ...

Unwarranted Negative Feedback

EBay, The buyer purchased a 60 cent item from me... The buyer had only submitted initials of MM on his profile so his address was incomplete. I emailed to ask him for his full name but he refused. I looked on PayPal but the buyer only has initials re...