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Resolved! Cricket Bench or Footstool

Hi, I would like to make a suggestion to sellers whom sell Cricket benches or Footstools. I recently sold another one that I shipped Priority Mail from PA to NY. I shipped it in an ample crush proof box, used 5" of packing peanuts on all sides and lo...

How do you determine profit??? (2 QUESTIONS)

1. Say for example I purchase 10 office chairs for $10,000 and I resell them and make $8,000, BUT I have operating expenses of $1,000 netting $7,000 before taxes, do I still record it as a profit or loss? 2. Do seller fees and ebay commissions count ...

Selling Retail Gift Cards-Potential Bidders Asking if I can email codes after I sell

Hi,I'm selling two new gift cards we don't want and two potential bidders have messaged asking if they buy them if I'm willing to send them the card number and codes. I responded that I prefer to mail them the actual cards. These are bidders with all...

What are the most profitable products to sell on eBay?

Is there a list of the best and most profitable products sold on eBay?

Ebay please fix the item specifics under womens boots

tyler@ebay please correct the item specific choices under women's boots. all of the types of boot in the drop down menu are descriptions of men's boots.

I haven't received a promotion for free listings! Anyone else?

I haven't received a promotion for free listings in over a year and a half! I checked my settings in my account and even called Ebay customer service. So hard to get ahold of anyone there but when I did get someone they gave me the standard response,...

Unmatch item and amount selling limits

I received the message from ebay that I can list 4010 items with amount of AUD99,000 limit, but turned out that I can only use 695 items with amount AUD18,801 limit. I could find any place and any contact email to ebay so that I can reflect this scen...

Sellers Beware of eBay Buyers always having 100% Postivie Feedback.

I joined eBay in 1997. Very surprised to learn of the eBay policy of not allowing Sellers to leave negative feedback in a transaction. I had a recent transaction where the Buyer refuses to pay. When I looked up the rating of my Buyer much to my surpr...

Is it possible to locally source a $0.50 to $3.00 item to sell 3-5x profit consistently on ebay?

So I discovered this legal shipping loophole (quite amazing, and not sure how long it will last, actually), that would really benefit me if I could ideally source a small-ish item locally that upsells for 3-5x the purchase price. The reason I need th...

Zero feedback fake accounts

Most of these zero feedback accounts who artificially inflate prices and then don't pay are easily identifiable by the seller after the sale. The order details all show that they do not have proper addresses on file and of course they don't pay. Why ...

Buyer using multiple new accounts, different shipping addresses, unverified paypal?

I listed five wireless internet routers recently. Last week, a buyer with a new, 0 feedback account purchased one. The paypal sender was marked "unverified," but the address was "confirmed," so I shipped the item fully insured, and it was delivered. ...

Sales Down? Look at Discussions Technical issues

Many unnanounced changes to selling platform

Question about listing and selling

Hi, I am thinking of adding a subtitle to my listing. It says (+$1.50) but I'm not sure how this fee is applied. Is it applied to every single sale I get (e.g. deducting $1.50 from every sale), or is it only a one-time charge for listing the item? Th...

Resolved! Sending an invoice

Quick question... if a buyer contacts me requesting to combine an order, is there a way for me to send them an invoice or do I have to guide them through the process of submitting an invoice request?

Help - Buyer returning item that likely doesn't contain everything

Help! Please! This is the second time I've had this issue. The buyer purchased a 2.5 lb. lot of untested gold and silver jewelry. The buyer drive the bidding price up to over $100. The auction clearly states, "Huge lot of all gold and silver tone jew...