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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...

Freebies & Promos

It seems sometimes like the posters doing the most and loudest ranting, whining, and complaining about eBay and their policies are those who in their own words will never list anything unless the listing is free. I don't like the recent changes in eB...

so confused about Ebay and Paypal and my checking acct.

Hi Folks,I never really check my activity on my checking account but did recently.--saw that Paypal was accepting money from a sale but was transferring the shipping charges from sale to my checking account. Is this part of managed accounts or someth...

Resolved! Listings not showing, promoted properly or items are duplicated in search.

Earlier today I caled Customer Service to find out why my listings were not showing up or when they did they were not showing up as promoted and my top seller rating landed me last in many searches. The lady didnt have any answers but whatever she di...

The recent 'open an Ebay shop' promotion...help please?

Hi, I hope that someone here can help me...I'm currently banging my head against my lappy. Recently there was a promo to open a shop with the first couple (or three) months subscription being waived, and I took up the offer.I've just looked at my inv...

I Just had a Buyer try to Hustle me on a $6. item. What a joke.

I Just had a Buyer try to Hustle me on a $6. item. What a joke. I do not know whether to laugh or feel bad for the sap. It really is a sad Day on Ebay when someone tries to Hustle you on a $6. item. Unfortunately it happens all the time. It's an insu...

200 Free Listings-No premades?no relists?hidden fees?only list from "Sell an Item"?? Frightened

Got new 200 free listings offer this morning. Long list of rules & hoops to jump thru. Including (quote from rules) any listings created prior to the time of activation will not be eligible for the Promotion. For sellers listing with any tool other t...

Vintage items ?

How old should a item need to be for it to be vintage? As I have sold a Pepsi Cola bottle from 1994 and the buyer states that it was Misleading.Item Was Listed As Vintage.Date On The "Vintage" Bottle Is (1994)item number 1877534616005

These middle of the month Promos are useless

I got a promo for 5 cent insertion fees on listings from 5/21 - 5/25. The problem with these middle of the month (as well as beginning of the month) insertion fee promos is that it implements AFTER your monthly free listing allotment is used up. My m...

Ebay email telling me "Your item can now accept offers"!!!

Just received this email. What is WRONG with this company?! How DARE eBay make this decision on my behalf! I DO NOT WANT TO ACCEPT OFFERS!!! THAT IS WHY I UNCHECKED THE BOX THAT SHOULD NOT BE AUTO CHECKED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!STOP TRYING TO FORCE YO...

VERO is UNVERIFIED and abused by Mark Monitor

Ebay Motors sellers are probably aware that Mark Monitor, the dishonest intellectual property “protection” firm has picked up Subaru Motors USA as a client, and are currently in a campaign to have all listings which include the word “Subaru”, in the ...

Easy Pricing is not working at end of auctions

I have updated several of my auctions to turn on Easy Pricing but when my auction ends and is relisted, the starting price does not auto reduce by 5%. I am doing this on the mobile app. What might I be doing wrong? Thanks

Offers Now Expire in 12 hours?!?

This seems to have been being tested last year, and now it's back. It stinks. I got an offer about 7PM today that would have expired 7AM tomorrow had I not happened to check my messages this evening. Are we now supposed to be a 24/7 operation? People...

Question about Computation of Sales for Seller Metrics:

Each sale (each sale of a separate item with a separate item number ) is supposed to count as one sale when used to compute seller metrics, that is, number of sales within a given period in relation to the number of NADs, INRs, etc. received by that ...

Auto decline/ Auto accept

Good Morning all. Just curious as to whether anyone else had ran across this. In the middle of the night someone put in a $15 offer on a $30 item. Usually I wouldn't accept this offer, but it was accepted without my approval. I checked my listing to ...