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New GPSR rules for Europe in the Summer Update - Goodbye EU Sales?

Reading through the Summer Update, and the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) rules that the EU and Northern Ireland are requiring ... "Time consuming" doesn't begin to describe how burdensome this is to eBay sellers. At best, it would take 60 ...

Buyer Asks for Lower Price After Paying

I sold an item that was not working and listed AS IS in the "For Parts or Not Working" category. I described it fully. After the buyer paid, I reached out just to confirm that they read the description and know it's not working and give them the opti...

Cost per Click

Is this system working for sellers? In my experience, it has increased the cost of selling with little benefit. The average sale per click is about 4-6%. How can this boost sales and profitability?

Classis View

I have been with eBay for about 23 years and was enjoying the CLASSIC VIEW, eBay please allow me the choice of Classic or New, or does anyone know who to return to the Classic View, I will be forever grateful. Thank you in advance.

Views on Auctions…Accurate?

Hi,I’m a Power Seller and I have some 7 day auctions listed, but it seems like the “Views” can’t be accurate. Too many times the auctions might only have 1 view or 0 views. It almost seems impossible since I put viewer friendly descriptions in the ti...

What's conventional wisdom these days of shipping to what looks like a freight forwarder?

I have a part from an old washing machine that was just bought by someone in Florida (sold for about $30). Googling the address, it comes up as a freight forwarder. The buyer has 800+ rating, no negatives. They posted a negative about a seller a year...

How to Cross list From Ebay to other Platforms

Need some guidance on how to cross list my store here to other compatible marketplaces and the easiest and most affordable way to do it.

Sell and ship to the uk

Hi Im stumped. I need to know if it’s at all possible to sell and ship a high value item to the United Kingdom. Thanks

FREE LISTINGS: Where is subtotal? What dates are used?

I've just discovered eBay have charged me fees for items I've listed, having felt sure I was well below the 300 per month. My questions are: WHERE does it show many how many free listings I have available & HOW do eBay work the "month"? Is it a calen...

Order Disappeared

I accepted an offer this morning and now the item is still "active" and there's 0 awaiting payment. When I look on the item under "manage offers", it says it's awaiting payment but I cannot contact the buyer via messages. When I go to send the messag...

"Wealthier Americans Powering Economy" Should sellers be targeting them?

Article from the AP: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/driving-retail-spending-wealthier-americans-are-powering-us-economy#:~:text=Roughly%2080%25%20of%20stock%20market,richest%2010%25%20of%20U.S.%20households.&text=%E2%80%9CIt%20speaks%20to%20the...

EBAY WILL NOT ACCEPT MY PSCAN. THE MESSAGE SAYS I HAVE TO SIGN BUT SAYS EBAY REFUSED TO CONNECT

I CAN DO EVERYTHING TO SELL ACCEPT TO GET MY SCAN ACCEPTED. THE SCAN IS THE SAME AS I ALWAYS DO

It's harder to "steal" someone else's pictures on ebay.

I just noticed...You used to be able to right click on a ebay product image and "save image as" and it would save as a image file.Now when you do that is saves as a "webp" file.I'm sure there is a way to convert that "web" file to a image file, it's ...

Buyers able to get around blocked countries and still able to buy.

Hi I have read several posts in the past where sellers have issues with buyers being able to buy their items despite the ship to address being on their blocked buyer list with eBay. But there seems not to be many current answers. We are having this i...

Resolved! Why does Ebay want to change/decide everyone's calculated shipping settings?

Just received an email from Ebay stating that on May 15 they are going to change shipping settings for everyone who uses calculated shipping. They have decided that it is our best interest to offer our shipping discounts to our buyers directly. This ...