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price "in this difficult time"

Venting a bit. "Dear SellerI have made several [lowball] offers that you rejected. Would love to purchase this item, but your price is too high [it's been the lowest price on eBay for 6 months], especially during this difficult time. What are you wil...

Ebay showing my listings in random wrong categories with mangled titles & descriptions

I've been trying to figure out why my Ebay traffic and sales have been in steady decline for the past several weeks, and today I took a look to see what my Ebay listings are looking like in Google. What I discovered was both surprising and very frust...

Paypal temporarily refunding fees on refunded payments?

Got an interesting email from PayPal today. Looks legit from what I can tell. I don't know if anyone else got this email? It is a nice gesture of them to do even if I don't agree with their normal fee policy on refunds. It is nice to be able to breat...

Other Ebay sellers ads on my page and before my description.

I know there used to be a way to state that you didn't want your items displayed on other Ebay sellers auctions and this kept anyone's from appearing on yours.But all of a sudden I'm seeing other sellers ads on mine.I tried to find out how to stop th...

Resolved! Buyer offers 10 dollars more

I listed a graphics card for 220 and someone offered me 220. Is this a scam ? Hes been a member since 1999 and has good reviews as a buyer and seller.

Weird Communications, should I ignore?

So I received a message from a potential buyer telling me he was trying to reply to a message I sent and accidentally hit buy it now. He asked that I send an invoice for $125 for the coin. (I am interpreting this to mean I solicited an offer to him o...

Option to require immediate pay for BIN in settings?

I'd rather not have to do this manually every time I make a listing. its a pain and I just saw it got turned off? 4 days ago it was still on my other drafts. Is there anything in settings to do this? thank you!

eBay and Paypal as proof of income for Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)

So, I am a college student who has been selling figures on eBay since 2018, last year I made around $8000 from this account which surpassed the $5000 requirement, however, due to Covid-19 my sold went down to only $300 since January as my suppliers f...

money received from buyers

I sold some items and was paid last night. (Wednesday) The money hasn't shown up in my Paypal account. I haven't sold anything in a while, just bought items. Is there a reason the money doesn't show?

Damage control for USPS covid delayed shipping

Lately USPS has been having delays for a number of my packages. Rightfully so as I've gotten notices from USPS about covid delays. But I'm looking for tips to handle the buyers. Some back off when I tell them "Hello,Sorry you don't have your item yet...

Covid extension question

So now I have a few returns that gave buyers the extended return window of 4/28 and they haven't shipped it back yet. So I'm fuzzy on the details... what do I do now? I'm I still allowed to contact ebay and have them close them out for me? I don't kn...

Buyer claiming the brand new sealed item didn't contain system

Hello, I'm the seller of an expensive brand new sealed item and I'm having a buyer claim they received the item box and instruction manual but not the gaming system and charger that were clearly inside and visible in my Ebay listing photos. I asked f...

Does "Guaranteed Delivery" make a difference in eBay exposure?

I had my listings on Priority Mail with 3 day handling, and only recently noticed eBay tacked on "Guaranteed Delivery" because of it. I used to do Standard/first class and rarely had an issue with buyers being pushy about having an item getting shipp...

The future does not look good.

I don't like being a negative person, but at the same time...I like to be realistic. I have been going to auctions with my dad since I was 5, and that was 23 years ago. I've seen auctions change quite a bit in over 20 years. But nothing has ever chan...