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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...

PUT YOURSELF IN EBAY'S SHOES

What would you do? There are 156,000 listings for a search that a buyer enters. How do you sort those? Which make the first page? The second? etc. Do you understand that the likelyhood a buyer will even scan all those listings is a gazillion to 1? Wh...

2018 Summer Selling Updates Are Horrible As Usual

Work for years to develop a successful proprietary product. A Unique Combination of Products, Variations in Size, Color, Qty., Industrial Products, Customizable Products, Used Products, Hardware, Manufactured Goods, Hand Made Items, Etc... ***Result ...

Only a few views auction 4 days old!

My alter ego here. I'm selling expensive new deco pillows and it's a big name that normally sells well. For some reason I only have 8 views and 1 bid at $0.99! Normally I don't price lower than I will take but Normally I have more than 8 views and 2 ...

Possible Scammer Targeting Sold Listings

Hello, I sold 3 expensive items to a person with over 1k possitive feedback, who buys items like the ones he purchased. All is good there. However, a brand new account made today, zero feedback, emailed me about one of the items sold, and gave me an ...

Buyer Refused Package.

This has never happened to me before in years of selling: In my mail today was a "refused" package for an item I sold and shipped. The buyer did not contact me. The item was less than $30. The buyer appears new to eBay. Should I message the buyer? Or...

I am not new to eBay selling, but I now have a problem

My page now shows Your eBay account does not meet the requirements to sell on eBay. Please review the requirements and update your account before listing on eBay.Yet it does not tell me what is wrong with my listing. It also says on my seller portal:...

The newest buyers scam

Just to put sellers on high alert. This didn't happen to me, but it's another scam that is making the rounds. customer’s opening statement “received shipping and shipping item has signs & marks some chemical liquid paint or mechanical oil damage. Ite...

Didn't receive my item that was marked shipped. Can't win for losing. :(

So i ordered a video game. Watched tracking show it being delivered on the 21st. Saw the mail truck pull up. Went to my locked mailbox and......nothing. Waited till today and.....nothing. Sigh. Not looking good at this point. I hear that this is a no...

Floored: eBay won't do anything about restricted seller who opened multiple new accounts

I sell in a VERY competitive category. There's all sorts of shenanigans that usually go on, the most common being other people outright stealing my images and description text. Usually, I resolve those quickly by emailing the seller in question and t...

Wish there was a way to filter out dropshippers

I am getting to get tired of ordering stuff on ebay and receiving "gifts" from "A"... And then a few days ago I purchased something and tracking info has now been uploaded to one of those awful "TBA" numbers which, according to a brief web search & s...

Why You WON'T BE SEEN Starting In September w/ The New Product Based Ebay- The CEO Said It Himself

People shouldn't forget what Devin Wenig (the CEO) publicly stated back in February about the new "product based" eBay -- buyers are about to see far fewer options when looking to buy a product. Instead of 10, 000 choices of something, they will like...

eBay vs the Big Three

eBay and the Big Three of th 50s -mid 70s have (had) a lot in common.1). They were the only game in town.2). The product was second to none.3). Everybody loved them4). They made very few mistakes5). They crushed it at every possible angle. Now:1). Th...

legit seeming buyer offers more than buy it now price on 1-5€ items and also legit buys other items

I know there are several threads about the topic of fishy buyers offering more that the buy it now price on high value items and it's a common scam to new and inexperienced sellers. But, in my case the items are Pokemon cards listed for 1-5€ each and...

ebay penalizes sellers who dont use their postage system

Ebay penalizes sellers who dont use their postage system case in point i ran out of an item (liquid soap) and used ebay to drop ship the item --- seller didnt provide me a tracking # so I couldnt do anything other than mark it as shipped. Buyer was h...

Best offer question

On one of my recent listings Best Offer was enabled and i didn't want it to be. My mistake! Now i have an offer. Questions i have are: if I decline the offer can i revise my listing and turn it off Best Offer option? Also i really need to revise my l...