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Update on Current Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) Renewal Issue

Dear Sellers, We are currently experiencing a technical data processing delay that has temporarily impacted the timely processing of some Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) renewals, affecting the visibility of certain seller listings and listing count on Act...

Variation Listings - let's work on a tutorial?

In a prior thread, the topic came up about lack of information for those wanting to start using variations. @mcdougle4248 wanted to try using variations, but there was no helpful roadmap, or perhaps those that existed online were outdated, so I said ...

First week of no sales since starting in 1999

Very tired of dealing with this company sales has been dropping starting ten years back.I sell vintage cadillac parts and have had customers tell me over and over that when they search for parts all is found is 3 pages of fuzzy dice and 5 pages of le...

Does Using Your Cell Phone Help You with Your eBay Business?

Does Using Your Cell Phone Help You with Your eBay Business? I recently had an eBay poster attempt to mock me for using my cell phone to conduct some of my eBay business. I know I have seen other Sellers who proudly use their cell phone as a tool to ...

Portal Improvement for Sellers

So remember the "send an offer" that was added? Now "add best offer" has been added for me to select all listings with BO and click a button and put in settings. I've been spending many hours check boxing things I want to edit to add BO and it's taki...

How does paypal seller protection work?

Hi all, so I just started selling on eBay last month. I have been selling beauty mystery boxes - putting makeup & skincare products in a bundle and sell them. Today I received a large transaction, around $200. The buyer has 0 feedback but has registe...

How AMAZON PRIME DAYS JUL 15/16 impacted your business

I noticed a real slow sales during these AMAZON PRIME DAYS JUL 15/16.Were you impacted by that promotion?

Non Profit and sales tax

We are a small non profit in Vermont. Under Vermont law, we do not have to charge buyers sales tax because our sales are below the 20K threshold. However, we have not been able to find a way to not charge our buyers the sales tax. Customer service ha...

Anyone got any experience with reporting a Buyer, Don't want negative feedback for this :(

I just recently sold an Iphone 7 Plus, I listed it as Broken, For parts only. But in the description I said it had a cracked screen which have totally stopped working. I did an honest mistake to forget to update the description saying that it seems l...

Bidding by message

Hi I’m usually a eBay buyer but I’m selling my first big item.i keep getting messages asking for price to buy now/what will you take and sob stories, I seem to be spending all my time messaging back! How do I handle this I thought that was the point ...

Another weird INR case

There never seems to be a shortage of new stories when you think you've heard them all. A buyer wrote me a rather lengthy message then filed INR but tracking says delivered. He said he checked with neighbors and nothing. I pasted my usual response gi...

Promoted Listing....OR NOT???

Hello fellow sellers..... Does anyone have products that are lower priced than the competition, and your "Promoted" listing can't even beat another non-promoted listing? I have sold TONS of a specific product, and yet some newbie comes in and his pro...

Is my listing misleading?

I have been trying to sell a bar of silver on ebay. I tried first with buy it now which was met with chirping crickets and no one was willing to make an offer even though I reduced the price twice and selected the option of make me an offer for the l...

Resolved! photos on the manage active listing page

@bryan.t@ebaywhen and why did ebay remove the ability from the manage active listings page to SORT listings by those with or without photos? as far as i know it was the only way and easiest way to locate the listings that ebay has removed all the pho...

State Sales Tax

Hello All- the state of MI will require online sellers to collect sales tax starting Oct 1, 2018. I already collect the MI sales tax. My question- How is eBay going to handle all different state sales taxes? Does anyone know?

Question about prices on shipping USPS

So I searched and couldn't seem to find any actual answers. USPS shipping is getting out of hand these days. Prices keep increasing way too much every year and I only fear what January 2020 brings. But in the meantime, to try to cut down costs I am t...