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Another poor sales post. Share your stats?

Every few days a see a new post talking about how slow sales are. My sales are down a little but i'm not too worried about it. Sales seem to come in spurts. I was just wondering if some of you would be willing to share your sales stats? I'm only inte...

Ebay Money Back Guarantee is now 180 Days

You heard that right. Sellers will be on the hook for items sold on ebay and paid through paypal for 180 days. Why? Ebay is now including Paypal disputes in Cases Closed Without Seller Resolution Defects. This ought to be fun.

What is Ebay doing to protect sellers against serial scammers?

This user is on his 4th ebay ID in under a year. When you look under his Feedback left for others 17 of 24 feedbacks are negative and 5 have been revised. That tells me 22 of his last 24 feedbacks left were negative. So this is his M.O.- He makes pur...

WARNING TO ALL SELLERS - DO NOT SHIP TO THIS ADDRESS EVER!! THEY ARE ALL SCAMMERS

I have been scammed twice now from the same scammers. What they do is use multiple different ebay usernames but the address they use is always the same and then they get the item and then say they did not get it and file cases after cases against you...

Money returned to buyer by ebay, buyer never returned item

A buyer bought an item from me, he then claim that the battery didn’t last long, he opened a case then closed it. The he claims to have shipped it back, the item never arrived and the buyer never provided tracking number. He called eBay and eBay refu...

Help please

Hi. I joined Ebay in August of 2018 and shortly thereafter began selling comic books and magazines. I recently I had someone buy a magazine, but I'm unable to find it anywhere. I'm wondering if I sold it earlier but just can't remember doing so. I ca...

Will GTC lead to a race to the bottom?

I use 3 day listings mostly and am not happy with this new GTC feature looming over the horizon. I have done this for years and it has served me well. Example, I sell lots of electronics and video game stuff and buyers in this category tend to buy st...

Where are the buyers?

Just had an item end with 258 views and 13 watchers and could not get a bid. Wow, for me that is unusually bad. Where have the buyers gone?

Seller selling rental of feathers...what?

Ebay does not allow rentals, correct? I've tried to find it in the rules, I must not be searching right. This is the listing, hope it okay to copy it here: ______________________________RENT OSTRICH FEATHER CENTERPIECES / WEDDING / RENTAL / GATSBY PA...

unpaid item questions

I need a little clarification...Do I need to open a UPI dispute in order to recoup my fees?After 48 hours, can I simply manually cancel the order and still recoup my fees? Is selecting "buyer requested cancellation" the only way to do this? Will it a...

Answers to what happened to YOUR SALES

For those of you wondering why all of a sudden not making any sales, right now is when ebay makes massive changes, they do this at least 3 times a year. I warn of this coming every year. When they put you in there lovely beta tests, with new changes ...

Resolved! My store is empty

Hello world I am an experienced seller at Ebay. My recent sales went down, but I didn't pay attention first, until one of my customers said that my store was empty. Then I checked myself in a different browser w/o login and that was confirmed . All m...

Starter store listings question

Hello folks, LTL , I recently opened a starter store seeing as i began to list more than 50 items , had it for about 2 months. Now that im very close to passing 100 listings..i was confused and wanted to avoid a basic store if i can... My queation is...

Free shipping check box

Why does the ebay sell site keep the FREE SHIPPING box checked from one auction to the next??? I have been caught more than once offering free shipping when I DO NOT want to...nothing else is saved out...I wish ebay would make it a have to check that...

Free Listing Offer and GTC . Will sellers get screwed again?

Ok , Ebay is cramming GTC down sellers throats. What happens if a seller activates a free listing offer and a GTC ad ends and restarts, will the seller get charged or will it be free. THe ebay offers state new listing ... I am just wondering what wil...