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my recent sale

I just wanted to thank the ten watchers for not bidding on my sale item. the one bidder got a good machine for just about nothing. what a shame it is that no one wants to pay for anything in supposedly a strong economy. keep being cheep everyone, thi...

Thanks for scamming us. GTC will KILL eBay.

I have been selling on eBay since 1998. It was enough to change all my listings once USPS raised their rates. Now eBay no longer has 30 day listings. Just Good Til Cancelled. It should be MY CHOICE what I decide to list in a 30 day period. If I sell ...

Is eBay down, can't list for hours any compensation to sellers?

eBay please announce when there are site problems I am loosing hundreds in sales because I can't open hyperlinks without getting error pages. I can't list! Are they going to compensate us for loss of sales? Will they kindly let us know when things wi...

Do you include unannounced bonus items with your orders? If so, what kind of items?

I have been selling coins mostly lately, but I sell a mix of items. Do you ever include unannounced free bonus items with your orders? If so, what do you include?

Toilet Book In Health & Beauty

Here is on example ( and there are millions of them ) how mega sellers have wrecked the eBay book catalog. ISBN 1891255193. It's a Plumbing Component data book. The mega seller put it into the health and beauty catagory. It is also a hard back and th...

Scammed

So I was recently scammed. I have received multiple emails from two people. I have the address but it might not be the real address. I have contacted the delivery service and have requested a re-delivery to my nearest post office. I have the evidence...

New in package sheets

Hi. I have a buyer that has filed for a return & is complaining that the new in package sheet set I sold her has some loose threads and a musty odor. I sold her these sheets at half of what I paid ($100) and a $10 discount of my fixed price listing a...

Error Message everytime I try edit listing but putting up trending rate works just fine :D

Yeah I am done lol. When I try edit listing today it says "Looks like something's wrong. Please try again".Already restarted, cleared everything on browsers.It says they are having website issues. but what's hilarious for me, is only changing the tre...

Fun with Best Offfer

Not looking for advice, just sharing Got an offer for an item I had listed at $175 for $125. I declined and told the buyer the best I would do is $150 ($20 off). They responded with an offer of $130. I declined and at that point removed the Best Offe...

Resolved! Take advantage of ebay negotiated USPS rates using ebay shipping labels

Okay, after almost two years of selling and on my way out, I just learned how the ebay shipping labels system works, which is different than it was when I started selling. SO, in case there are other skeptical sellers, like me, out there, hesitant to...

How long has this been going on? Very small search results

I was searching for replacement shades for a pair of lamps I am repairing and only got 100 results even though it said there were over a 1000 results. I had to go back to the first page and to the top to show hidden results. How long has this been a ...

Question about "Tracking uploaded" metrics

Howdy all! Last month my top seller status dropped to above standard due to my "tracking uploaded" metric falling below 95% (a buyer asked if I would delay shipment, and I mistakenly believed if she marked "item received on time" in the feedback that...

No Record of PayPal Received Payment or Label Purchase when using Global Shipping Program?

I have a question to sellers who used the Global Shipping Program: if a buyer from another country buys an item and pays it via PayPal, should it automatically show up as a Payment Received on the PayPal account like with other sold items or nothing ...

sigh... another buyer claims 900$ package is empty...

there's so much fraud on ebay its crazy.. global shipping buyer (from mexico) claims the box he received (shipped through DHL) was filled with "garbage" - he posts pictures of cheap phone cases and say that's all he received and not the 940$ phone I ...