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Please help me!

Hello I need your help. I bought Item and unfortunately I didnt receive it. When I opened Case and contacted to the seller. After One week ebay closed case and seller said that my item was in mailbox. After that I contacted to seller again and asked ...

Resolved! Pros and Cons of Posting Buyer questions in seller listing

As a new seller, I am composing a reply to a buyer who has offered twice the opening bid amount (including shipping) within 8 hours of listing. I have chosen this as my reply:"Although we appreciate your offer, our policy is to let all auctions run a...

Ebay's "seller protection" is bleep

Seller Beware: Yet another very unsatisfied seller here. Just my 3rd sale on Ebay and like many others I have also learned the hard way any unscrupulous buyer with "buyer's remorse" can falsely claim any item is "defective or not as described" and Eb...

Please stop spamming me - You're too late anyway

A few minutes after cancelling a non-moving BIN listing, and relisting it as an auction with a drastic reduction for a starting pricce, I get this email. eBay.....Please stop spamming me daily!!!! I know what I'm doing here. I don't need your advise ...

Resolved! Buyer opened a INR through PayPal after receiving

I know how this works with eBay, but never had somebody open an INR through PayPal.This is the guy who tried to scam me AND gave me negative feedback. The tracking number was already in the case. Should I escalate it to PayPal? It says that I have th...

Listing an item on low price belongs to different item

Is it legal to list an item on a low price belongs to comletely different item?For example: seller lists a portable speaker for $5, but this price belongs for another, completely different speaker and when I choose the color or whatever, price will c...

I am quitting.......again.

I've been a seller off and on since Sept, 2000. I've loved it and hated it. I've tried very hard to do all the things Ebay has requested in order to be a TRS. I give 30 day returns, I offer free shipping on some items, etc. But my profit margin is ve...

Should ebay stand by the word of their reps?

If a rep over the phone tells you that ebay is going to do this and that but does nothing of the kind should ebay honor that rep's word? After all they trained them. We go to them with questions and assume they will know what they're talking about. S...

Priced too high

I've been selling mail order books for about 15 years longer than eBay has existed... Before the internet, we sold by catalog and magazine ads... After the internet came to be, we (of course) got our own web site, and we're doing well until eBay, Ama...

In regards to pirce, "Here's what they said" ....

The C.O.O. of a major auto manufacturer recently spoke about competition and said, "Basically, as I said before, we are hoping not to be involved in a discount race ... "How refreshing to here this from a top level executive from a large corporation ...

Questions about an item don't display on the auction page

Whenever I have a question from a potential buyer I always tick the box to display the question and answer so that all viewers can see it. (See attached.) But the question never displays on my auctions. Am I overlooking something?

ebay Italy, PayPal and Great Italian food

I had posted a while back about a case of a GSP shipment to Italy. Buyer files SNAD on ebay.it. I accept return and write to buyer I will send him full refund including return shipping cost upon return.I could never actually see the case because it t...

Can I use free listings on existing listings

Is there any way that I can use free listings that I was just notified of on existing listings or renewals of existing items? Thanks

Blocked user, anyway can send to me messages!and was blocked too in preferences

Good day to all,I have blocked a user. I had done it a year ago. I do not have any current transactions with this. Go to preferences, I do not want to receive messages from my blocked users (and add it to the Blocked Users list, the usual). Anyway .....

3 cancelled bids/orders this year

Not the end of the world but I dont think I had ever encountered this until this year. I am selling more than I have in the past. We all make mistakes, but its truly inconvenient. The last one canceled bid on the last day of the auction, leaving the ...