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Best Offer Glitch?

Has anyone else experienced ebay adding the best offer feature to items you have not opted in to? I only use best offer after an item has been listed for a while, but never on initial offering. Even though I deselect it when working on the draft, it ...

Best offers - Ugh!

As a seller (different ID), I offer a b.o. option in my listings. I don't have "free" shipping. So when I went to my ebay, I saw I had an offer. I accepted the reasonable offer and forwarded the invoice reflecting the b.o. price plus shipping. It was...

Resolved! Will auctions also relist automatically?

I want to know if auctions will also relist automatically like GTC items will? Or when an auction ends, it's ended. Thanks.

eBay needs to open a Department Store (Brick & Mortor) ...

One of the problems with a business that sets up an online, fairly automated, sales venue is that when it is doing what it is supposed to do the folks in their office have nothing to do. They need to gut the first floor of their office building and t...

Strange Seller did not get as much as he wished for items and has now refunded me |?

How can a seller get away with not getting what he had wanted in auctions. I bought and paid for 3 of his items within 5 minutes of auction end time via paypal. Which were Cash On Collection, Granted he did state cash on collection, which I had misse...

eBay cost - how is this worked our as I seem to pay what I sell - no profit

Hi, Does anyone know how paypal (eBay) work out their eBay seller cost and what I should avoid to payout this huge cost? I seem to pay out eBay the same value I earn from my selling activity. E.g. today I sold some items worth £21 and received a new ...

How to handle eBay sales within no-alternative GTC listings era? Several questions.

The elimination of the 30-days duration fixed price items, builds to seller certain difficulties in managing their stores.Therefor I do have some questions to the community.Some things I need to understand clearly about no-alternative GTC (good till ...

Nothing like profiting off failure Ebay!

The new GTC scheme is almost designed to turn profit off of items NOT selling! If items are rolled over, new listing fees assessed, Ebay benefits from the fact that they did not sell, assuming you don't cancel. Soon there will probably be a fee to ca...

High Fees selling on Ebay

Hi all,It seems the cost of doing business seems to keep rising, between ebay fees, paypal fees, shipping fees, materials to ship is it really still worth it? I just sold an item overseas to japan using domestic shipping program and paypal takes like...

Buyer gets refunded, doesn't return item, posts blurred illegible receipts and leaves bad feedback

Hi All, I'm In slight disbelief on this one but apparently it's permitted according to the eBay feedback department... Long story short a customer purchased 3 items, requested a refund which they received, didn't return the item and posted 2 receipts...

eBay adding Make An Offer and Auto relist to Auction Listings

Anyone else having a problem with eBay changing Auction Listings to add a Make an Offer with a half price auto reject? And also adding “automatically relisting items up to 8 times? I am not new to eBay by any means. I always use the ebay mobile app a...

Selling while on vacation mode

I put my store on vacation mode but did not check the box that holds all sales while I'm gone. I sold an item yesterday and cannot ship it out until March 25th. Ebay tells the seller that processing may be delayed but I got a message yesterday to be ...

For those that don't like the GTC, would this work........

Lets say you have 50 free listings a month.You list your original 50 listings and keep your listing count at 50.At the end of 20-30 days or whenever you want, take a listing that isn't doing good and completely change it, make it a whole new item.You...

I Give Up On Fixed Price With GTC. Just TOO MUCH WORK. Too Big A Waste Of Time.

I don't want ANYTHING automatically relisted with FEES. To avoid that, I MUST work more to make sure NOTHING gets relisted. At the same time I will lose possible sales because I have to remove them before then end, maybe days before they end. MORE WO...

Legitimate Scenarios for Allowing non GTC fixed price listings

What solutions will eBay offer to fix these scenarios that don't work under GTC? Seasonal Goods - Some products shouldn't be listed all year round! (Do you really want an Easter Basket in August?)Seller Dies (sad, but I'm sure it happens!) - If their...