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does ebay search engine punish older sellers?

I have a product that i have been selling for a while. its an air filter for a specific machine. I have zero returns. the second highest number of sales. The seller who has the first spot has a sales history of 1 the second spot is a seller with 99.4...

Unpaid Item...can't leave feedback?

So I'm a little baffled that I can't leave negative feedback on a buyer that didn't pay and thus held my item hostage for a week. Here's the situation: A buyer gave me an offer on an item I had for sale, I countered and he accepted. After buying the ...

Resolved! Late shipment rate

Did Ebay recently change their late shipment rate metric? all of a sudden i'm showing i'l be TRS for next months review but I really didn't expect my percentage was 5.77% but now it just shows the number of lates not as a percentage but as a number. ...

Promoted listings

Have promoted listings worked out for anyone?

Overlapping fees charged between eBay and PayPal

This does not seem right that a seller has to pay fees to paypal for money that will be deducted for eBay as fees. If eBay deducted the fees immediately. PayPal would not be getting extra money out of my balance. They already make us pay double fees ...

Do you fear checking your messages everyday?

With reduced profit margins and slower sales, it's getting really hard to make a decent profit. I now live in fear of checking my messages everyday, that there might be another return or sale cancellation, that essentially nullifies any profit I make...

Buyer claims they have to pay sales tax

I have a customer e-mailing me to negotiate a price on a buy it now I have for sale. They claim they have to pay sales tax. I don’t understand this, I am not charging them sales tax. Can someone explain this?

March 9th and NO sales!!! Someone buy something from me!!!

Ahhhhh, made you look...... Not my selling ID. Getting very frustrated, not one sale this month and yet the last two months were awesome. I need money! My taxes are due!

Shipping problem

I clearly didn't think ahead. 2 of my items sold in auction on Friday. They haven't been paid for. I'm going away for a week, leaving tomorrow. I sent an apologetic message to the buyers yesterday morning explaining that I wouldn't be able to ship af...

Daylight Saving Time

Don’t forget Daylight Saving Time is Sunday at 2:00 am March 10th 2019. Spring foward! Change your clocks and batteries in smoke detectors etc..

Find button on my computer

On my iPhone and IPad I have a find button when I’m searching my own items. I can put in a part number and it pulls it up. I don’t see that button when I’m on the same screen on my computer. I’m using a Chrome BookThanks

Just a funny discussion.....

I would love to get all the posters on here and put us all in a room and for fun try to put a face with a poster without knowing anything but what has transpired on these boards. I think it would be a hoot of a time. Rich

Seller cancelled my order after I won the listing then relists exact same item.

Seller doesn't send item I won on his 7 day listing for $40.00 then I see it relisted for $150.00 isn't that fraudulent?

How to get more bids

Hello, I have a question because I don’t know what to do. From the pocture bellow you can see 2 accounts, the first one from Japan sky rocket from 160$ to 1000$ today, when mine is still with 0 bids on 20$. How is it possible as I clearly have much b...

Add sales tax to my listing on the app.

It would be nice if ebay would add the option for adding sales tax to my listing when using the app since I list all my items via the app. Now I have to go to my computer and update my listing to add the sales tax table. Some times I forget or someon...