eBay

Broken Replica Scam

Saw this online when researching how sellers can get scammed on eBay. "A buyer happily purchases your item. Once payment is confirmed you ship it promptly. In this scam, the buyer then accuses you of sending a damaged item. They may even provide phot...

Will sellers from other countries outside the USA have to pay sales tax to our states now?

I live in the united states and I understand ebay is collecting and remitting taxes on my behalf now. Before only a person who lived in ohio selling to people in ohio would have to collect sales tax but now its changing to any sales in any state must...

meteorite stone from philippines

recordkeeping

I need help with setting up my recordkeeping for a small operation. I'm having difficulty getting all info pertaining to each item, like which shipping charge in paypal goes to which buyer or item.

EBAY NEED TO STOP FEEDBACK EXTORTION

Here is the issue that exist which ebay need to addressBuyer buys item and say item is defective or something is wrong with the item it's not working and leaves you a negative feedback. The seller offers free returns and ask the buyer to return the i...

"Does not apply" no longer required for items without UPC in certain categories

According to the eBay announcement- In certain categories, UPC product identifier will show as a required field with no “Does Not Apply” option. If you do not have a UPC, please leave the field blank and do not insert random numbers. Does this mean w...

Worth the time to provide clothing measurements?

I've always provide multiple measurements for all clothing items I sell most of which are under $20. But lately I've had more than a handful of buyers claim INAD for inaccurate measurements. I even put a diagram in my listing with a detailed descript...

Ebay hates apostrophes

This has always been there since as far as I can remember. But you ever wonder why ebay removes all of the apostrophes (and I forget if also other punctuation marks) when you type in the Returns Details text fields? I wonder why. I think they also do...

International false SNAD

Welp, a long time coming. I can't remember if I've gotten an international false SNAD who actually returned the item to me. I don't have free returns for international. The buyer first messaged and complained that the Small they got was too small. Th...

What is wrong with eBay these days? Why is everyone seeing lower than normal sales?

So this month has been one of the worst months on the site for me and many others. No matter who you talk to in support they deny anything going on and want to blame us sellers for our low sales numbers. I have a hunch that these issues with item spe...

PayPal cancelling accounts, conducting business without PayPal

PayPal recently cancelled both of my PayPal accounts last Monday and they will only state I violated their policy agreement, no further explanation as to how even though one account wasn't even being used. Two days later it's all over the news about ...