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Ebay free shipping penalty fee is unfair to sellers

E-bay's penalty fee because you don't use free shipping is unfair to sellers, the market is very competitive and us sellers that are living in Florida and or California are Geographically challenged, and can not put free shipping on items since we ne...

Accidentally entered wrong listing price

I posted an item for sale and accidentally put the decimal point in the wrong place. A buyer jumped on the listing and bought it almost immediately — I’m sure they realized what a great deal it would be! I’m thinking of cancelling the order but I und...

Completed & Sold Search Not Working?

Is it me or is the Completed & Sold searches not working? When I click on either option I get a page showing no items - but it does list how many items should be there. Hmmm

ebay seller scams buyers

Wanted to get some input from everyone. I bought a brand new sealed box of football cards back in Jan for 789.00. I payed through paypal and the seller that isn't a registered user anymore with 42 feedback just sent us cards worth about 10-30.00 that...

Resolved! Buyer left feedback before I sent the item

Used to be that buyers couldn't leave feedback until their item is shown to be delivered. My customer, sweet as she was, was able to leave me a glowing FB and I had not even shipped her item yet. This...make me nervous. Something's not working the wa...

# of Watchers Has Been Taken Away & with that so Has Competitive Edge

I'm sure not too many people know this but the "# of Watchers" Has Been Taken Away and with that so Has Competitive Edge. Instead, ebay constantly tells us to lower our prices. Please ask ebay to put that feature back so it makes people want to get y...

Ebay now randomly marking items for sale - 'Make an Offer'

I had an item for sale and I did not have it listed 'Make an Offer'. This morning I get an email stating such and such an item is now accepting offers to help your chances of selling the item. I thought at first that someone has hacked into my acct b...

“'Our revels now are ended“ William Shakespeare The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

After selling here continuously since May 1998, I’m taking a little break to re-evaluate me & Ebay.I was almost relieved yesterday when all my items ended 10 Day Buyitnow.Definitely will be scaling down.Perhaps to just only the monthly free 50.Less e...

Issues with promoted listings or markdown manager anyone?

Is anyone having issues with promoted listings or markdown manager? It lets me get to the very end where it would usually say 'LAUNCH' but the button has completely disappeared. For markdown manager once I select the items I want on sale, there is no...

Beware of gift card fraud/ "Fake" buyer will contact you

I know that you're only allowed to sell physical gift cards instead of digital ones for safety reasons. Anyway, I've been selling a bunch of physical gift cards. There's a user (and where there's one there's probably more) who is keeping tabs on who ...

GTC not just for Non Auction Listings

I am reading that GTC is only done for Fixed Priced items but my Auction Style Listings are being relisted, anyone else?

Buyer requests cancellation

Hi. I just had a sale. 4 min after I accepted the offer, the buyer requests cancellation, without explanation. BUyer is not new.Is this normal? Should i just accept , or ask why ? Are sellers just supposed to cancel when buyer asks?of course I will b...

Is this suspicious to you?

On Feb. 7 I sold a pack of hockey cards. It shipped on Feb. 11 and in mid-March I got a note from the buyer that it was not received. I told the bidder I would refund. He sent me a couple of messages saying he would rather have a replacement pack bec...

Report Downloads Not Working in Safari. "You are not currently subscribed..."

For the past couple of weeks, we are getting the message:"You are not currently subscribed to Selling Manager..." when trying to download our morning report (which we've been doing daily for over a year.Appears to work just fine in Firefox, but havin...

Weird problem

So, I just got my first negative and the buyer didn't say what was wrong, so I sent the them a message to see if they might tell me, and while I was messaging them I noticed at the top next to the item info it showed "small flat rate box $7.90", as i...