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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...

Double money back impossible with one payment

A buyer wanted an item at a certain time for an event and it ordinarily would have gotten there on time but I believe the Post Office, once again, treated my polybagged "large envelope" as a parcel and returned it to me for more postage. Maybe they t...

Alert I got from Ebay...Returns too high. Anyone else struggling?

I sell clothing, and people return clothing items constantly. I don't have a problem with it--they're mostly fit issues (even though I provide measurements). I accept returns automatically and count it as the cost of doing business. However, since bu...

Resolved! Leaving "negative" feedback for buyers

If I recall correctly, years ago, eBay stopped allowing sellers to leave negative or neutral feedback for buyers. If you leave any feedback for buyers, it has to be positive. Such horsecrap. The eBay community should be warned about nasty, policy abu...

EBay files poaching lawsuit against Amazon

EBay files poaching lawsuit against Amazon A lawsuit was filed by eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) against Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) over poaching tactics on its marketplace platform.The complaint accuses Amazon of perpetrating a scheme to "infiltrate and exploit" eBay...

can't pay to print labels, won't let me go to PayPal, says virus on PayPal connection

Tonight when trying to go to PayPal to pay for mailing labels, my virus protection aborts it, saying the web link is unsafe with virus. This happened to me a few nights ago also. It was fine in the morning but I'm wondering what the problem is. Will ...

YOU ARE NOT VINTAGE!!!

This has ridiculously gotten out of control!! Everyone is listing concert shirts and such as vintage that are not aged enough to be vintage, or the vintage reprints, it's a REPRINT, therefore it's new not vintage, or I have heard the excuses it looks...

How to get email notification when someone bids on item I am selling?

Is there a setting somewhere so that I can receive an email notification when someone bids on an item I'm selling? Sometimes I list the same item in more than one marketplace, so it would be helpful to know if the item receives a bid (and thus will s...

How do you turn off "bid received" emails?

I haven't sold things in a few months, and last night I listed about 30 items.. now i'm getting "Bid Received" emails for all the bids.. when did this start? I can't turn it off in communication preferences as there are no options for this! Anyone kn...

Cant create or revise listings with variations

Does EBAY currently have a bug in their system? I can not create listings with variations or revise my current ones. I can revise my listing and get to the next page just fine. But when I click the "edit" link next to variotions, I cant get to the ne...

Multi-variation listings...are these allowed?

I have some digital codes for movies I'd like to sell. But instead of creating an auction for each individual one, can I do a multi-variation listing like the ones i found in this search: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_...

No sales for 3 days... then I fixed it.... ?

Interesting. I always have sales, always. Usually average about 6 a day... more some days. I know thats not a lot to some folks, but when it stopped dead in its tracks.... then I had no $ for kitty food. I read a post yesterday about a guy who had sa...

My search down ...Who can explain that! stats! inside photos!! thank you!

Hi everybody ...i will dont explain full story .... but sales was down from starting updates... its was down but i was put alot new design and up my level and i was just was holds in grow... but now its totally like i am invisible and i was work alot...

eBay fixing what isn't broken again ...

I don't like the new platform. None of it. I don't know who told eBay excecs this was a good idea. Maybe they're selling out to Amazon? Had to make three attempts at selling something and couldn't find half the links. Not even uploading my own pictur...

Do buyers think we can see what's in their cart?

I often have buyers asking specific questions of an item they have in their cart... referring it to the "item in my cart". But since I have MV listings, I have no idea exactly which item is in there. They usually ask about pricing (often times trying...

Phone number in listing

Some of my competitors list their phone number in their buy it now:* In their ebay store banner* In their listing, they put their phone number up in an image* Or they flat out write their number in words: Call (One eight hundred) [redacted]Is this a ...