Seller News: April 2025
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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...
Opinions about this WARNING Please?
Hi I received this WARNING last night, I Never sold anything outside of ebay, and the item is still listed for sale. A "0" feed back buyer who lives less than a mile from me inquired about meeting for a sale OR Local Pickup, this was on Jan 27th + 28...
feedback
Is EBAY taking your feedback away because you have no sales ? how can you have sales when EBAY is showing the items that they want to sell?? I had 100% sales from year 2001 till last month when EBAY started to deduct feedback that I earned before now...
Cheap H&R Block 2018 Premium Tax Software
In the last few days the H&R Block 2018 Premium Tax Software is being sold on eBay by multiple sellers for around $35-$36 with free shipping. Does anyone know how sellers are getting this so cheap and is it legitimate? I need this software to do my t...
eBay Promoted Listing Ad Fee Not Refunded when you Cancel a Transaction.
For anyone using eBay promoted listings you are charged an ad fee based on the rate you set if the buyer clicked on the ad and the item sells. I found out today if you cancel the transaction because the buyer asked you to cancel eBay dosn't automatic...
Low sales, no feedback, what is wrong???
Why are sales so slow and nobody is giving feedback? It just seems to keep getting worse. No feedback for almost 2 weeks now and sales are almost non existent. What is the problem?
Anyone having problems with USPS delivery times and tracking updates?
I have "where is my package" complaints every day. packages leave my local right on time and then I will end up with a long wait, usually 4 or 5 days, until i get a tracking update that reads "In Transit to Next Facility" and then nothing until the p...
Resolved! If I cancel an order, is my seller level affected?
If I have to cancel an order because I am out of stock on a product, will that affect any of the metrics on my seller level page? The reason I am asking is because I don't see anything about an order cancellation rate. So, if I do have to cancel an o...
Tax Deductions
I know how to the obvious tax deductions I can claim with 1099K (miles, fees, shipping cost, home office space) what are some other things I can could claim that might be missed. I'm going to have my taxes done, but what to have everything possible t...
What online stores offer FREE returns?
Free returns for buyers remorse just doesn't make sense to me. It costs about $5 a pound (for 2 or more pounds) to ship to the West Coast, and for lighter items I get a lot of buyer remorse reasons. I can understand that ebay wants to compete with ot...
Winner of action is offering more money than buy it now, scam?
I was selling an item in auction with the option of buy it now for $500. I had considerable bids of 400-430 which I was ok with them. Suddenly this person with (0) records and an account created the last bidding day offers $800. This number is unreas...
Buyer returned a used muffin pan and told me to go **bleep** myself
A buyer filed a return for a $300 item claiming that what I sold was fake. From what I read so far on the forums, buyers really have no power to dispute these sort of claims, so I begrudgingly accepted the return and paid for the return shipping. I r...
2019 Spring Seller Update ...tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick .......
tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... it's coming and the clock is ticking down ...
Deleted Items
Still groping my way around Seller Hub... Where do I find recently deleted items, an option that used to be listed along the left side on My eBay? Does anyone know where they hid it? (I'm talking about deleted items, not unsold items.) TIA
Open case
On January 27, 2019, I sold my Moncler vest to a buyer in New York. It was a Sunday, I shipped the item on Tuesday. If I shipped the item, the buyer claimed he put the wrong address. He asked if I could reship the item. What was weird was that the ad...
Resolved! Doesn't ebay keep track of your inventory?
I had 3 of an item for sale. Last night a (newbie) customer bought 2. That means i have 1 left. Then she asked me to ship it to her correct address. She mistakenly signed up with the wrong address. I cancelled her order and to her to correct her addr...
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