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I guess I'm losing my touch. I've had three sales in the last five weeks or so where Items arrived broken. The first was a set of six items with one broken, and 99% of the time I don't have a duplicate, but in this case I did and customer was happy t...

Item was Sold, postage mishmash, item was refunded, but delivered. What i can doing?

Hi.1. Item was sold and sent.2. Postage office in destination country (UK) did some mishmash. They maybe had a problem with delivery or something. I wrote 5x to buyer about this. (his address was OK and confirmed). He told that he will prepare re-del...

DVD sales qiestion

Although I have sold other categories of items, primarily it has been DVD's priced from approx. $5 to $270. I notice some folks sell their movies as low as $4 including mailing; at that sum, all that remains is roughly $.20, predicated upon the size ...

First “Send Offer” that worked :)

Well, finally! I’ve dabbled with the “Send Offer to Buyers” feature, with no luck until now. Someone finally bit! LOL

eBay Blames Sellers For Slow Sales. I Blame GTC for Fixed Price And Other Endless Changes

eBay constantly, endlessly, changes and changes and changes so that nobody know what is or is not allowed, what is or is not required to list and more often than not benefits eBay at the expense of Sellers. Sales killing changes such as a 30% BIN tha...

Resolved! Unfair negative feedback left

Is there a way to have negative feedback retracted because it was left unfairly without me having an opportunity to make things right? Or at least make a comment next to the negative feedback that others will see. It is unfair that my perfect rating ...

This is ridiculous - filing complaint against eBay with state AG

Filed complaint against eBay with state attorney general for not following their own policies and unreasonable demands. I am sick and tired of the games Ebay is playing with my wife and me. They have restricted our seller account in violation of thei...

Resolved! Sales coming to a halt this September !

Anyone else currently experience a sudden sales drop off?? I was selling 5 to 7 items a day with only 50 to 60 listings and now I’m selling zero with 130 listings. Did eBay change their algorithm? What is going on? Why are sales coming to a halt?? Is...

Discrepancy with New Items Not As Describe Returns Policy

I'm really having a hard time lately with eBay charging us 40% higher seller fee penalties now and thinking about leaving eBay, because it seems I can't get eBay to help me anymore. Namely, we sell product types that typically have a higher refund ra...

Feedback removal -or- help responding to negative feedback.

I recently had a return of bullet train pen for not as described. The comment on the return made no sense at all. Something like "Says rainbow light. Might be counterfeit." I accepted the return. Got the item back. Refunded the buyer. Of course there...

Buyers can't pay, sellers account won't accept payments

I recently sold a few items but have received messages from the buyers that my account won't allow them to pay. I had an invoice from September for $1.00 which I paid online plus the current balance of $2.00, but buyers still can't pay. Any ideas on ...

Buyer asking for a refund over 2 months later!!!

Hi guys any advice on this one. I sold a baby clothing item on September the 5th, dispatched it the next day. Never heard anything until yesterday i had this message "wheres my item looks like you will have to refund lost in post". As you can imagine...

New Internet Sales Tax changes - Seller is charged 2.9% of tax collected by paypal

In the announcement regarding new changes to the internet sales collection, no one mentioned that paypal is charging sellers 2.9% of total sales tax collected. Oops!

No sales - useless

I am selling a variety of products here and on another very popular competing site. Since October 1st I sold almost 1000 products on the competing site and zero on eBay. What happened to this place?

eBay Managers now quoting their user agreement they are not responsible.....

eBay is now quoting the user agreement stating that they are not responsible for any problems users have..... So after the summer of eBay removing variation photos, followed by the summer of no markdown promotions w/o a 2 week waiting period, to cons...