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Resolved! Why does eBay tolerate such treatment of buyers?

A friend of mine who rarely buys on eBay asked my advice. She is a super crafty person and mostly buys on Etsy. She couldn't find what she wanted there and checked eBay and found a seller who has the exact item she needs. When she checked the seller'...

Ebay March Invoice?

I "sold" an item last week for $65 and did not receive payment so I opened a claim. I waited for payment then eventually got to choose the "Did not receive payment option" and got this message: **Your unpaid item claim is closed without payment. The ...

Why am I paying for ebay as a seller ?

Hey, I listed my first ever product, I don't know how to promote and I never sell it, also not very much of people watch the post.. So I sold it by my own, but for the 2 months of this listing ebay has been charged me: Total invoice amount due: $6.00...

Monthly invoice taking days to process

3 days so far, and it is still processing. Seriously, is this not done by computer? Of do they have a sweat shop of indentured servants chained to a table with an abacus?

Need help. How do I file my taxes if I don’t have a 1099

I’m trying to file my taxes but they want a 1099 but PayPal didn’t give me one because I only made 16k not 20k. So how do I do my taxes without a 1099?

HELP IN IDENTIFYING IBM LTO TAPE DRIVE

I acquired this box of 4 tape drives. The box is clearly marked IBM with a W02CE022. I also looked up all the other numbers on the box with no luck. I ended up opening up the sealed package to finally find out it is a LTO DRIVE. I am not sure how to ...

Seller Metrics and Peers

Just clicked on Seller Metrics in seller hub, hadn't done that in a while. Low and behold my peers are PERFECT. They have a 0% return rate selling Porcelain Holiday collectibles. 0%!! Imagine that! Why do I feel like I'm wading knee deep in steer man...

Resolved! Ebay refund defect policy

This is a good example of why Ebay needs to rethink their policy of giving sellers defects for return. I just received a return of a TIGI Foxy Curls Mousse. For the return she put NAD. She states she did not like the product. Ok, that is understandab...

Resolved! cigarette coupons no longer allowed to be listed???

HiI've been selling on ebay for about 10 years and always threw in cigarette coupons with my other listings as they're always in high demand and easy money.When ebay limited the coupon listings per month (25 coupons allowed to be listed a month or $1...

Ebay says "Good 'Til Cancelled" changes are good for sellers, what do you say?

Returns

Not sure if this is the proper forum for this, but i am livid.. been selling on ebay since 2005... i just sold (for $110) a high end leather skirt (retails $495), advertised size, pics and all proper info. a women bought it, and claims it doesnt fit....

Why no recognition of sales volume in addition to feedback?

I never can keep track of the meaning of all the colors the star represents next to a feedback score, not to mention the shooting stars. Wouldn't showing the dollar volume of sales be an additional metric that could evaluate a seller? I mean, it's pr...

Urgent ! Wrong shipping cost for a sold item !

Hello ! I am new in selling section of Ebay. Hello ! Yesterday a buyer bought the item i have listed:https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Power-Mac-G4-M8570-2002-HDD-40GB-CPU-Dual-867MHz-DDR-RAM-512MB-/223463501290?txnId=0 Because its the first item i put ...

Buyer Fraud

Hello fellow ebayers, Just had a buyer buy a monitor off me and then claimed it was broken and sent his broken monitor back. Now I've been using this monitor for 3 years and I've taken care of it and never even removed the plastic off the edges. The ...

Refund of fees on returns

BTW, are you aware that after May 7th you will no longer get any of your Paypal fees back when you refund? This means that Paypal will keep both the $.30 AND the 2.9% you originally paid to process the payment through Paypal