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Resolved! Local Pickup

How would this work? I have a local customer asking for local pick up. The item is rather heavy and would cost about $20 to ship. How can I do this without getting in trouble? Can I just change the listing to local pickup? I would have to put an addr...

My favorite kind of message

We are downsizing pending a move to an apartment in a retirement community in a few years. If I don't know what something might be worth I list it at auction first, then change it to buy it now if it didn't sell. My favorite message is "would you con...

Resolved! No sale email from ebay or paypal

Do we really need to come to ebay and check to see if we sold anything every day? Is it odd that I didn't get a notice from BOTH places ? It was on Thanksgiving and I feel bad about the buyer, I hope she believes me. I don't sell much so I don't come...

Sold an almost Mint condition bag, buyer said is Filthy! asking for more than 40 % off for refund

Sold a very good condition bag which used less than 3 times for $ 75, HE made an offer for $45. Sold for $55. He received the bag said theres a cigrette stink inside , which I never smoke, Discolor on the strap. evyething he can made up of. Since I s...

Learning To Better Price Items to Sell Fast w/o Giving It Away

Learning To Better Price Items to Sell Fast w/o Giving It Away I sell a mixed of items and like most sellers, I wish to price these items where they sell fast, but without giving them away. Before I list an item, I try to find the going rate; however...

Return issues

I would like some opinions on this experience I had. I am not looking for resolution because I am looking to hear from other sellers instead of ebay. I experienced my first damaged return which was a transformer which is basically a 1/4" metal sheet ...

tricky scam link sent through messaging

So, I get a message from a potential 'buyer" who just opened their ebay account yesterday, based in Puerto Rico-The buyer said that they couldn't pay; ($1200 item), here is what they said, minus the scam link-- "When I try to pay with PayPal, it says...

Going out of town for 5 days how do I...

Make it so all my auctions will notify buyers I will not be able to ship my items before I get back? Thanks in advance.

Need suggestions for my listings

I am pretty new in selling and have stepped out and listed lots of items, but they are not selling.Anyone have the time to check out my site and give me some ideas?Thanks!

Buyer bought item by mistake, item not yet shipped, PayPal holding payment

Hi all, First time posting here - only because I encountered a new situation in my limited experience as a seller. So, I listed an item for sale (Buy it now). This morning, I received a notification from eBay saying that a buyer has paid and it's tim...

CHEAP-CHEAP CHEAPSTERS

The writing was on the wall years ago, when ebay added the phrase "at low prices" to its home page. My thought was, "well, it's downhill from now on." Still, it is astonishing to me just how prices have tumbled. Except for the very rarest collectible...

Back again with dumb question...

Geez, this has been like giving birth to get this deal done. If I send an offer, IPR is automatically gone, correct? Because buyer has some lame excuse reason for not being able to pay for two more days. But the listing will show as sold, correct? He...

Heads up sellers! Shipping calculator no longer gives combined shipping fee.

You will lose money on multiple (same) item purchases from buyers. I ran into this issue 2 days ago on a buyers order. The buyer purchased 2 of the same item and shipping was charged for 1 item and nothing for the second one. I lost over $10.00 on th...

Resolved! Help, I'm stuck in below standard as a seller and cant access any listing offers

I found a product I sold was a fake so had to cancel the order, then the same product accidently got relisted so had to cancel it again. Then two buyers returned items that were not the ones I sent them. One went to resolution and Ebay refunded the o...