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Please eBay. Stop changing my price without my permmission. Just lost money again.

Hello,If you list something for a specific amount of money, just to make a couple of dollars, eBay lowers the price automatically. I hear that is a way for your auction to be controlled by eBay. I called customer service they told me I can change tho...

Ebay doesn't understand how sales tax exemptions work in Oklahoma

So - we have a brick and mortar business here in Oklahoma and also sell on ebay. In Oklahoma there is one permit for businesses that the state tax commission issues that allows us to both collect sales tax and be tax-exempt on purchases for the busin...

Order Total Doesn't Add Up

I just sold an item for $74.99 with free shipping, however, when I go to the purchase/print postage page it states the "order total" as $80.24, even though the page plainly states the correct item price of $74.99 and "Total shipping cost paid by buye...

Promotional offer not working

I received a 100 listing free promotion. I activated it (double checked that I did) I meet all the requirements. When I tried relisting, it took from my original 50 free listing, which I did not want to use because they are good for the month. The 10...

Checkout and Confirm

This is what I get after clicking checkout and confirm. I didn’t get charged. I just moved on. Another seller lost a sale. Will they get the glitches fixed before the crash sale?

lyst

so far my list is $ 83,000now $ 70,000why?

Resolved! Best Offer Plus or Minus?

Is anyone else bothered by the "Low Ball " offers that this option seems to generate? Is this a license to do that? Perhaps the eBay management could point out to bidders that they could even offer what the thing is worth as an offer. Which did happe...

3 times recently I have bought something. Seller never ships. No response.

What's up? I get order confirmed. Then nothing. Three times recently. All different sellers. Yes two were auctions and I was the only bidder and one was large and bought after new postal increases. But nothing. No response to my inquiries and I have ...

Defect rate

We have two ebay stores. One of them dipped into Below Standard because of a high defect rate. Does that affect the sales at our other store?

Resolved! Something Weird GTC Showing 31, 32 and 37 days

Today's ending listings are re-listing showing 31, 32 and 37 days for next cycle. Plus, when I try to add a new listing, it gets nestled under the the 27th day listings instead of continuing onto the last re-list, which is 37 days. Anyone else? Help ...

Sales tax

eBay is now collecting sales tax on applicable transactions in my state of Indiana as of July 1, 2019. Do they charge sales tax on both the cost of the item and the shipping? That is how it is showing up on my listings now. Will they be refunding the...

Misconceptions about the USPS Dim Weight increase.

Good morning all ... I've been browsing the forum this morning and have seen a lot of comments about "New dimensional weight" pricing and there seems to be a bit of confusion going on. Not all USPS packages are affected by this change. Shipping regul...

Dreams and selling

So this is going to be a wierd post, but I wanted to get opinions from other sellers here. A week or 2 ago, I listed a used accelerator pedal (like a gas pedal but this was for a diesel truck). The pedal was a take off, it was good, no problems. So I...

Abusive buyer policy ?

Help the buyer or send the buyer to the nethers? I just received this message from Wayfair and I would like to emphatically and unequivocally announce I have no idea what Wayfair is talking about; I haven't experienced large percentages of items arri...

Frustrations with cancelled orders etc

eBay should instate either/or/some variation/modification: * Buyer has only so many cancellation orders to prevent cancellation abuse. Or make the UI more annoying so that the next time they bid [and they've done too many cancellations], they get som...