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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...

Weird offer on my item - scam?

Trying to sell my iMac. Already had someone try to scam me on Saturday, was a more obvious one. This time someone with a fresh 0 feedback account sent me an offer (at exact price of the item, not lower or higher), and asked to send him my PayPal emai...

Buyer Won't Return Item

A buyer bought an item (bicycle, a $650 sale) from me, then proceeded in a litany of complaints about the item. Though I don't offer returns, I do pay shipping, and offered this buyer a series of compromises. However, he changed the subject with ever...

Article on millennials expected spending patterns -cars, houses, big ticket items.

Interesting read this morning on what millennials are expected to do with their money Come to eBay! https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/millennials-to-trigger-changeover-point-for-the-us-economy-bill-smead-says.html

Help Identifying This Antique 18k Gold Piece?

Hello, I'm looking to list this up for sale, but I need help identifying what exactly this is. Could anyone be kind and tell me? It tests 18k yellow gold and it came off an antique charm bracelet. Most of the charms came from European countries, espe...

Interesting Item View Statistics Per Selling Platfrom

First off, let me make you all aware that eBay is still the best platform to sell second hand items. I get more purchases on high value items here, than I do anywhere else. Secondly, the other platforms are slowly catching up, however, there is still...

How to do feedback in color and easily use emoticons! 😃

Just a helpful post in case any of you have seen or been wanting to use color and emoticons in your feedback. It's a neat little trick you can do right from your computer. 李 Hit the windows key (..the key near the bottom of the keyboard that looks li...

Ebay emails from saved searches for auction listings with BIN

Maybe you already knew this but I didn't until recently. When Ebay sends an email for a saved search, the body of the email shows the listing with a BIN price only. If you click on the listing from there, it correctly shows the listing as an auction ...

Resolved! Sales Tax notice

Happy New Year,So I just saw this messge about tax being charged on an item. I've looked through my emails from eBay and don't see anything related to a change. Is this something new with the new year? Do I need to remit to the state of WA? The learn...

Resolved! Sales Tax on eBay

Hi all,I sell philatelic items during my free time on eBay. But I am not a professional seller. I just have a basic account and not a business account.For the first time in my selling career, after selling some items to a buyer located in Minnesota, ...

Question about promoting vs lowering price

Say I have an item for $15.00 and reduce the price by .75 will that auction typically have a better chance of selling then if I spent .50 cents (When/if it sells) on promoting? Why or why not?

Resolved! HOW TO REMOVE INVALID DEFECT LISTINGS

I made the mistake of changing my email address after 20 years. I updated to new address everywhere but it was impossible to find everything. Long story short, I had a handful of transaction process to an invalid PayPal email address aka my old one. ...

What do I use eBay for? Thank you eBay!

The shoes I wear were bought on eBay as well as the tv, laptop, smartphone all purchased from the site. The sales revenue I have besides fee's are turned into cyber cash enabling me to purchase on many sites and stores with my paypal account. Thank y...

Does ebays algorithm actually care about the best practices ebay employees tell us matter. BREAKDOWN

So I was doing searches today and noticed best practices do not seem to be affecting the top 100 of the "best match search" It looks like it only cares about auctions, sponsorship's, and new listings. Of the first 100 Patagonia jackets when I search ...

Sales down 75% from last year

I know we were lucky but we had 100 free listings a day as a private seller, until EBay changed to 1000 free listings per month. We spoke with EBay who said set up another account, which we did and have been using two accounts for over 6 months. So i...

All the changes for "better seller experience" is REALLY hurting business by customers not paying

I have had 5 no payments this week and about five last week. Not sure what is going on all of a sudden. I have hardly EVER had 5 non payments in a year. It is horrible! And now they are going to do the payment management thing. I am a single mom and ...