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A Little Tiny Glimmer Of Hope

No question, no rant , just a sharing of my experience with the hope it will be of some help or encouragement for others. I have been steadily working on my store for several months. First, was to move about 700 single quantity listing into variation...

Ebay says I can ignore 1-day shipping if buyer requests…what???

Ebay told me (I called) that I can hold items that buyers have paid for when they request it, even though I have 1-day shipping. Made it sound like no big deal, I just have to call. I am wary! I could rack up a lot of defects if this is wrong info. W...

Preventing a Transaction Defect and Negative Feedback for Out of Stock Item

I sell one-of-a-kind items and an item I had sold many months ago unbeknownst to me was listed in my store and purchased yesterday. Naturally, I did not have the item, so I called into ebay to discuss with a specialist the best way of going about avo...

possible buyer scam.

I was selling a lot of over 100 vintage items for over $1k. A buyer messages me asking for about 30 specific items out of the lot for a fair price of $500. I decline his offer as the listing was fairly new and I wanted to wait to see if anyone would ...

Buyer with 13 Bid Retrations in 12 months ... that's bad right???

I had a Buyer retract a bid this week ... usually folks message and ask to have their bid cancelled. Maybe policy has changed but I seem to recall Buyers can retract a bid but have to replace it with another bid (it was about mid-point on a 5 day auc...

Buyer is not answering my emails, has not paid. I don't know which country they are in for invoice

How to Share Listing Link to FB Marketplace?

With the "Share Your Link" option (comes up as soon as you've completed a listing) it gives you the option of sharing a link to your listing and a choice of several social venues in which to choose from (Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Selecting ...

No shipping fee credits for partial refunds of calculated shipping unless you call eBay!

Check your invoices if you refund any amounts to customers!I refunded part of the calculated combined shipping the customer paidrather than request a total.Yet the transaction when checked on my invoice, shows the full calculated shipping amount,{in ...

Most Important For Seller

FEEDBACK is a powerful tool. Most buyers pay attention too sellers profiles ratings and feedbacks to make there decision if they want too do business with you. Don't go after the quick one time sale but focus on being reliable and standing behind you...

Why are my items not showing in my Store?

I created my new Store yesterday (SBG Racing) and created three listings; I closed one because it never showed up but today I created these two to try again: 372512538194 and 372512526667. What can I do to fix this? There's no point paying for a stor...

All sellers need a back-up person OR My last two days!

Today is Saturday, for those who may not read this right after I post it. So you know, I am a woman in my early 70's and a cancer survivor with post-cancer & other medical issues. On Thursday evening, I ate a late supper, took my evening meds includi...

eBay’s algorithm for sellers is messed up for 2 reasons

A. Fails to protect innocent sellers from predatory buyers in any way comparable to the way it protects innocent buyers from predatory sellers. Long time buyer, just beginning to sell and get used to the interface on eBay. My first experience to sell...

Part time/small sellers

We had a very pleasant chat yesterday with eBay executive Sarah Brubacher. Very nice person BTW. She has assured us that ebay values & wants to keep small/part time sellers around. I’ve always believed that long time sellers of any volume are the bac...