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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...

How to drive slow sales in February on EBAY higher?

How to drive slow sales in February on EBAY higher? Anyone have any ideas besides huge markdowns? Traffic to EBAY seems unusually slow but it is only the beginning of February. Christmas season is over. Valentines day buyers only if you sell jewelery...

Sold

I sold a pair of shoes but under shipping cost it says Free. It doesnt see to be charging the buyer the shipping is 14.00 ,should I cancel the order? I didnt have free shipping on any of my items --- I am so confused.Obviousily a Newbie ! TIA

Resolved! Store Promotions problem with event titles

When running a promotion like Buy 1 Get 1, does anyone else have a problem with the system replacing apostrophes with spaces? Under "Sale event description" which is the title displayed to buyers, if I type in Women's Sneakers when it goes live the t...

Suspicious Buyer

So I listed an item for 250 as a BIN, however they gave me a offer of 300. This account was created today and has 0 feedback. What should I do? Will he do the shipping scam?

Suspicious Buyer

So I listed an item for 250 as a BIN, however they gave me a offer of 300. This account was created today and has 0 feedback. What should I do? Will he do the shipping scam?

Resolved! Buyer made an offer $1 higher than buy it now price on listing with IPR.

Ok, I've seen a number of threads talking about scams where buyers make offers higher than the buy it now price. These always seem to revolve around the buyer then requesting payment outside of eBay, or emails from a fake PayPal account. The end resu...

Photography process

With what devices do you guys use for photographing such as camera or phone? If camera what camera do you use? If phone what phone do u have? Also if you have listers how do they have access to yours photos?

He wants me to lift my restrictions so he can buy???

Well, got this person who is new since Jan. of this year, has purchased 36 things and has 100% feedback, emails me and says he's really like to buy the item, but he's "had a few strikes" and could I "remove my restrictions so he can purchase"?..........

Photography

What are some of your photography “best practices” I would love to hear how everyone takes their photos? I personally use a white backdrop and professional lighting kit as well as a mannequin (I’m a clothing seller)

New Markdown Manager very confusing

I see ebay made another change. Today it is Markdown manager. The old one was really intuitive and worked well. The new one I can't figure out. I managed to figure out how to do a simple 10% discount. But how the heck do you put 5% on one item and 10...

What if a buyer has an account that’s a day old? Is it a scam?

I’m selling 1000 custom print iPhone cases for $2500. I have best offer on it but when he did the best offer it was the same as buy it now. Right away I accepted it but after I did he asked eBay for all of my information. They gave it to him but gave...

Free Auctions Listings??

I somehow have free auction listings although it's not at the bottom of the screen where my promotions are and I'm not a subscriber to the whole store thing. Is this a fluke? I'm not being charged because I looked at my Account Balance and only saw c...

Main Generic Image for Listings Different than First Image: How possible, technically & policy wise?

The seller discounttiredirect has as their main image for multiple listings a generic image, as you can see above, that has their company's name in the bottom and in the center, a transparent tire (that's not the one for the product being sold) and w...

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Tracking hasn't updated for an item I sold and shipped to Budapest since 2/21

I have a buyer in Budapest freaking out because their item has not arrived yet. I completely forgot about this sale as I shipped it the first week of February to Budapest where the buyer lives and hadn't heard from them since/wasn't checking the trac...

How to set shipping service by destination country?

Sellers, I sell cameras, and a lot of buyers are in Europe and Asia. My strategy to date was to ship USPS First Class International everywhere. This has worked for years for me with a loss rate of about 2% of shipments (in dollar terms, probably twic...