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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...

Resolved! Selling Here Is Scary, Risky Business How Do I Get Courage To List New Items?

Just got the special promo to cap FVF's on items I may sell that go for over $100. Did not accept offer. Stopped listing much of anything with a value over $45 for a year or more. why? 1st off the unreal increase in shipping cost,2nd would be all the...

Ebay sucks!!! No seller protection! Will not care about selling on eBay ever again

I sold a lens on ebay. The buyer bought it without reading the description and then filed a return case because he did not read the description and the lens was not what he wanted. Ebay just accepted the return and refunded the buyer without asking m...

Ebay is dying

Ebay is dead. Ebay is dying. I was a very successful seller on another, bigger account. I even paid their ridiculous fees and store fees until they raised it to like $300+ a month just for a store. My sales dropped more than 50% at the end of 2015, c...

Time to end and relist everything. 500 free listing promotion is back :D

Just in case you haven't seen the email yet. 500 free listings till the 22nd of November. Perfect time to try to breathe some life into those dead listings eBay is throttling.

Resolved! Buyer hasn’t paid in two weeks-no contact

Hello everyone,not new to selling but first time I’ve had an incident like this. So what do I do? I sold this item (to a fairly new eBay user looks like) for 192 dollars, and so far two weeks have elapsed since then. The Buyer hasn’t responded to any...

Look at your Paypal account. Are they are charging a fee on the sales tax collected?

I was STUNNED to see that I'm being charged a Paypal sales commission on the sales tax that Ebay and Paypal collect directly for a transaction. Is Ebay also charging the 10% commission on the final sale price including the sales tax? The tax decision...

I want to do a black Friday sale

I was hoping to do a Black Friday sale for 48 hours From Thursdays midnight to Saturday Midnight. I want to give 50% off all items in our store but the buyer will have to pay for the shipping. I mean it is obvious I could not But in promotions there ...

Resolved! eBay CS - can they remove a blocked buyer? Because...I’m surprised!

This may seem an odd question, but I just had a user id purchase from me that I know for a fact was blocked. I know because I have my blocked list copied into our other account and in a Google note!I know of no way of the user id being able to have s...

Resolved! Selling Error

i am not complet my month selling limit but when i list item there is a erro as reqreque higher sellin g limits

"Get notified when the price drops ..." Pop Up Window

Hey all, On another account, I was looking at some of my listings tonight and a little pop up window appeared over the "Add to watch list button." The pop up read "Get notified when the price drops" -- it's great for us to get watchers, but I think i...

Why is eBay ignoring ads that violate the rules and look the other way ?

Why is it that eBay is NO longer removing ads that violate terms of service even after repeated reports?For instance Reselling Carfax reports are illegal and a violation of terms on ebay for Goverement IDs among a host of other violations, and have a...

eBay Launches 'Black Friday Preview' Sale

Nice, but I think you'd have to lose or sell fake junk to be featured. https://www.ebay.com/e/daily-deals/ebay-early-black-friday-deals https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-launches-black-friday-preview-130100288.html

Fill your cart with Winter-y pastels

eBay's new line up of products is pastel- what do you think? They're branded as holiday edition. This quarter's eBay shipping supply coupons expire in about a week.

Why oh why did ebay bring back variable time limit offers? I thought we banished this 5 years ago

This is a continuation of an unresolved issue which a mod bafflingly closed. The original is located here:https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Why-oh-why-did-ebay-bring-back-variable-time-limit-offers-I/td-p/28971153/highlight/false/page/1In that di...

Buyer asked for refund, now selling on eBay for more than original sale price 😠

Just wondering if anyone has come across this before/whether it's allowed or if I can ask eBay to step in...Sold a pair of my daughter's shoes on eBay ($8.50 auction price + $5.53 shipping). Buyer contacted me stating she wanted to return them becaus...