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sales tax washington state- is it coming out of what we charge?

I see ebay has started chrging sales tax in washington state as they alerted us months ago. my question is is it coming out of what we charge for an item or are they adding it to the price we charge?on the note they posted after our 1st washington sa...

Anyway to get 30 Day listings set from Ebay offering "200 additional listings. Zero insertion fees."

Anyway to get 30 Day listings set from Ebay offering "200 additional listings. Zero insertion fees?" I would like to use this promotion but not get screwed over by fees on these extra items and have them expire after the 30 mark so I don't get scumme...

Ebay email

A couple of weeks ago I listed some Fire King jadite soup plates. When I looked at the item there was about 95 lookers and many watchers and I started getting emails from ebayers asking about the item. At that time I discovered that there was 2 diffe...

PROBLEM WITH VIEW COUNTER

Hello Sellers, Is anyone having issues with the VIEW COUNTER numbers? Lately, I've noticed I will have 6 Views within seconds of posting a listing. I've also seen an increase in views on items that generally do not receive many clicks. In the past, t...

Sold a item but customer, had wrong address had to pay 12 dollars to get the item back

Would i be in the wrong to ask for that money back from the customer? Because i wasted money shipping it and they still want it so i have to pay again to send the item back to the correct address so all together i am losing money from this transactio...

sold items

how can I see a list of my items sold for past several years?

STOP permmitting selling multiple items under one listing - price search now worthless

I would like to start a petition to stop the practice of selling multiple priced items under one listing. This practice is creeping into our world as the policy of more and more sellers on eBay which makes "search on price" now worthless. For example...

beware the latest return scam. you are not protected

i accepted a return though it seemed suspicious. it was shipped out to me several days ago. i received an ebay notification that the item was delivered when i knew it was not. i checked the tracking number and it shows the item was delivered alright!...

Resolved! Selling multiple dvd's in one listing

I'm trying to set up a single listing for multiple dvd's I have for sale (over 100). I know there is a way to do it where you have a dropdown box that lists each of the items, and can even select different prices, but I can't figure out how to do it ...

I jumped the gun with this scammer buyer

At first I thought this buyer was a nitpicky guy. They bought an item from me and messaged me with a photo saying that it is defective. I didn't want to deal with the potential trouble because I didn't agree that the item was defective according to t...

I MA NOT BUYING BECAUSE OF SLOW SALES/GTC

I am a seller her on e-bay. Sales have taken a slow down to near stop because of the GTC ripple effect. EXAMPLE;I use the funds from items I sell here on ebay to buy other items on ebay. Since the forced GTC I have not been relisting and therefore no...

There are eyes on your item! Go for the Sale

Can anyone explain.... 82 watchers...Up to 80% of those watchers are labeled "not eligible to send offers".Huh? Why so many excluded? Criteria includes "listing duration" (most are GTC that are older that 3 days) and/or "rules that manage the number ...

Do “listing impressions” actually mean anything?

On my metrics page eBay says my impressions are down by 8.2% and they offer suggestions to get that back up. BUT according to eBay’s own description “We count an impression when a link to your listing appears on eBay”. A potential buyer does a search...

Winning bidder gets to pick one or more from a group of pictured items?

I have a set of Nine Flags cologne that I’m planning on selling. Rather than creating individual listings for each bottle, I’d like to create a single listing that offers the winning bidder the choice of any of the available bottles. (They vary only ...

Good til Cancelled & Promotions

Ok, so because of the change in the "options" for duration to Good Til Cancelled, I decided to liquidate my store and find something else. I planned to reduce all fixed items by a certain percentage. I couldn't figure out how to do that like the old ...