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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...

Seller Performance???

Ok, so I go to my dashboard today to check if my "late shipment rate" has improved even though I ship everything on time but a few items were delivered "late" according to eBay. I'm at 3.13% late, barely above top rated limits. And I see a notificati...

The ins and outs of sending offers to buyers

Opinions seem to differ on the send offer feature. Some think it annoys buyers, comes off as begging, or say most watchers are just tagging you for other reasons than actually wanting to buy. Personally I like the feature and although it doesn't alwa...

Ebay sells the ability to distort the sort function.

Just noticed that Ebay is selling, with additional fees, the ability for sellers to distort the sort functions to work in their favor by placing their items first no matter what sort a buyer selects. Does anyone else feel that this is not right? As a...

Got Stung by the Good Til Cancelled

The good 'til cancelled got me, I missed ending my auctions and now I have 675 stale auctions relisted while 8,000 more items wait to be listed in my rotating inventory. There go my sales for June. I really feel awful for the folks that need this inc...

Scammers eating me alive!

Plated silver bars and rounds

Any one else getting upset about the adds for silver bars from northwest metals and others from CHINA for bars that in the title, do not say "plated", they are vary misleading and I am not buying anything from E bay tell they crackdown on the worst o...

Resolved! Scamming seller used fake tracking number, Paypal closed in their favor

I bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 for $700. The seller didn't post any shipping information to eBay, but after a few days I get a notification saying tracking information had been uploaded to Paypal. I found this strange, since I had never ever seen...

Resolved! eBay Seller Account

Hi. I have an eBay Seller Account with 50 free listings/month. Is my seller account considered to be an online store since I sell products to shoppers? In other words, can I say to people to "shop at my online store" if I have an eBay Seller Account?

Freight Forwarding scam still alive

Recently listed an item which specified will only ship to USA. Figured that would be enough to dissuade international bidders, but that was not to be. So, I closed the international gateway. Low and behold, a bidder from China comes along with a US s...

Resolved! Blocked from Selling and Buying Because BUYER asked me to sell off site

So ebay blocked me now for 7 days from buying and selling because ANOTHER USER asked ME via email to trade. This buyer kept persisting asking to trade, and started asking me to go to his facebook page. I not once did so; and never intended to. But I ...

taxes

eBays uniqueness has been forever imposed on with the collection of tax fees for each purchase.This politically motivated overreach is a total perversion of our legislative process and leaves all of us ( buyers, sellers and citizens) at the mercy of ...

Paypal fee question

Don’t know how to do screen shot but here are details.sold——————89.00shipping ——-11.95———————————total ————-100.95fees————-4.74total ————96.21Is the PayPal fee that high ? Thought it was 2.9 plus .30. ? If anyone can explain thank you.

ugh, these skittish bidders

I've been selling parts in lots with a 9.99 starting bid. It's working out but now the trouble begins. Not really asking for advice as much as just laying out the situation and how I handled it for anyone who might be interested. One guy was high bid...

Store Listing

When did ebay start only Good till ended instead of letting me do 30 days.I like to rotate my listing some but i can not be troubled with having to remember to cancel all of the good till listing when the month is getting to an end.