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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...

RANT, I read here of how bad everything is and no sales BUT

But of the 8 items am currently bidding on I have been outbid on 7 items. I just placed a $250 dollar bid and 5 minutes later I was outbid. I have been outbid in the last 60 days 34 times, with ending prices between $10 and $600. Basically I am sayin...

"Invite a Friend" offer - Isn't this potentially a form of Shill Bidding/buying?

I just got this message in eBay Messaging ... I've been careful NOT to let other family members log in to their eBay accounts on our WiFi, etc. and am always a little concerned if a friend or distant family member arbitrarily buys from an ID here ......

unauthorized person on eBay leads to buyer fb extortion. Wow!

So here's a good one we haven't seen in a while.Yesterday, a buyer messages me during my process of mailing the purchase, to inform me that a "daughter" got onto her account when it was logged in, and purchased a <$7 item with no permission to do so....

Issues with the ebay shopping cart?

Ebay shopping cart issues??Last evening, I noticed that with various sellers the s/h caps mentioned in their listings were not properly working. In addition, even once the seller's free s/h threshold was met, the ebay cart was not applying the seller...

Do you foresee your competitors maliciously doing this?

I've started selling on Amazon for about a year and I see many competition doing a lot of malicious things... leaving 1 star reviews without having bought the item at all (yes, Amazon allows you to leave reviews without having bought from the listing...

PERSONAL EMAILS FROM EBAY

Every day I receive personal emails from Ebay about lowering my prices. I also get emails about items that I have watchers on and they want me to lower my prices. I am currently running a 10% off sale and I still receive these messages. How does Ebay...

Sales fading, returns skyrocketing

My inventory has increased by about 12% over the last two months. Sales have declined about 15% over the last two months. This month has had a very consistent fade. More alarming is the rapid increase in return cases/abuses. Although some of the retu...

A vlogger deals with an SNAD

One of the vloggers I follow - posted a video about a false SNAD return days ago. Despite reaching out to Ebay by messaging and phning them - they received no resolution. They themselves escalated the case as the weight of the package alone returned ...

Suspicious Buyer

So I recently sold a Laptop a few days ago. It was suppose to go out today but I recently received an email from eBay saying suspicious buyer for the item. The buyer is no longer registered on eBay. I received payment for the item but the email says ...

Suggestion: Courier Service for High Ticket Items

It's always very upsetting to read of the numerous scams of sellers being taken for thousands of dollars when selling high ticket items here. Buyers sending back something complelely different, saying they didn't receive the item sold, perpetrating f...

SELLING HELP

FOR THE 1ST TIME IN 10 YEARS IM HAVING A HARD TIME SELLING ,CAN ANYONE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE ON WHAT I SHOULD DO AS IM STRUGGLING AND SEEMS THAT THE ITEMS IM LISTING ARE GETTING VERY FEW VIEWS DURING ITS 10 OR 30 DAY DURATION--NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED OR...

There is no visit store in my ebay listings

I recently opened a stater ebay store 5/18/18. there is no visit store link. there is see other items under seller information. what the heck? How are looker/buyer supposed to go to your store? its been almost 24 hours

Why block when someone makes an offer for a lower price?

OK, so after a post I made yesterday about not understanding the logic behind blocking someone who makes an offer (when Best Offer is not activated). I do understand a seller being a little peeved if the offer that was made is unreasonably low (that ...

Resolved! Non Paying Buyers are abusing the fact sellers can't leave neg FB anymore SMH

20 years on eBay now. I was on when you could bid on your own items and leave fb for anybody. Those were the days. Once eBay stopped allowing sellers to leave negs & neuts, I knew there would be problems in the future. The rate of non-paying bidders ...

Shipping Label Charges Discrepancy??

Hi, can anyone explain this to me? I shipped a item to a customer on the 15th 3 days ago. package weighed 3 lbs. My shipping label charge after discount came to $10.04 priority mail. this morning i woke up to a sale to the same person for the exact s...