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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

Permanent seller restriction and Ebay does not know why. Anyone help?

I have had my Ebay account for many years and i used to sell stuff when i had the time,needed money or whatever the reason. For 5 years i did not really need or want to sell anything due to being busy and other reasons, but when i went to try to sell...

Changing a buy it now to auction

I have two items I want to change to auctions from buy it nows. I’ve had some decent offers but nothing approaching what these two items have realized in auctions. Seeing how touchy ebay has been about ending items, what reason do I use for doing so?...

Out of Stock or End Lising?

Hi,I've been wondering for a bit now since the GTC change is it bettle to let listing sit as out of stock, even if you are highly unlikely to relist another item under the heading, or should you go ahead and end that listing/ I've had a few unique li...

New Item Specifics

I am working on a new listing in the Home & Garden category (Christmas Ornaments), making my way through all the new item specifics, when I came to this one I just had to laugh. Think I should choose Unisex Adult? I just do not know anymore. I guess ...

Resolved! Draft Listings - Do they Expire & Get Wiped out?

Specific question, if I might be so bold.... How long are drafts retained before ebay wipes them out? [I gather from discussions here that unsold listings stay in the "unsold (or ended) box" for 60 days and then the ebay computer wipes them out] So t...

Recommendations for a platform that saves expiring listings?

Hello,I'm looking for a platform that will save listings that expire from my orders page after 90 days. Ideally, the platform would sync with ebay, save all of the listing information including pictures, item specifics, description, and shipping spec...

Selling with a price less than 0.99$

Hello guys;Please someone could help me with that: i want to list an item with a price less than 0.99$ say 0.74$ but ebay warns me that the minimum should be 0.99$.However i see some sellers have their listings even with 0.69$ or 0.73$.So, what trick...

Resolved! How to NOT have Automated Returns Acceptance!

My Hell, I just saw this message from eBay and am Freaked out beyond belief! How do we NOT have to do this? Thanks."For any item that comes with a buyer pay return shipping policy returns are now automatic. eBay will now automatically accept the retu...

Bizarre Buyer Messages

Hey all, I'm selling something on my store right now and got two very odd messages and was hoping to see if anyone else had experienced something like this before. I received this one first from the potential buyer: "I would like to purchase your new...

3 months into GTC. What's your experience now?

For me, sales have been markedly down, but oddly enough some of my oldest listings have sold. I've only had 38 sales since March 18, but 17 have been sitting around for quite a bit Dates initially listed, and none were GTC before the change: 9/2012 1...

Good Till Cancelled Not Fair To The Little Guy

I don't list enough items to warrant a store. I average 130 to 150 items listed at any given time. If I list at fixed price and don't have enough promotional listings at months end I will have to pay an insertion fee on current listed items. I am goi...

Resolved! $1 Final Value fees weekend promotions

A couple of weekends ago I was told by eBay that the promotional offer we have enjoyed for a few weeks now, was stopped on that weekend only due to a marketing glitch. The only time I list items to sell is during a weekend - because of that promotion...

NO SALES

Congrats ebay My last Monthly invoice from you was $2.90 !!! You killed my sales. You killed my business all because you want more money for sponsored ads. You send these confusing messages say ( lower your price make the sale) but you want me to hig...

What is up with postal tracking?

I have had several packages delivered with NO tracking and others just disappear with no tracking UNTIL I go to the USPS site and ask for tons of updates by text. Then suddenly they are found and moving after sitting at some PO along the way for week...

Wow! Since GTC went into effect my sales are way down and so are my Husband's

I know that the market is getting smaller for antiques and collectibles, but good classy items always sell....at least until now. My husband sells more modern things and even he has been real slow. I am wondering if with the GTC items move up in view...