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MANY unanswered questions about 2018 Spring Seller Update

I am looking for answers to many questions I have concerning the 2018 Spring Seller Update. I would like answers from actual eBay personnel and I am not happy to be discussing my business in a public forum, but apparently that is my only option. Litt...

The 2018 Spring Seller Update & Vintage, Used, Collectible, Hand-Made, Antique & One-Of-A-Kind

What with the latest eBay Seller Updates (as well as many of those that preceded it), the time is long overdue for eBay to separate products in the "vintage," "used," "collectible," "hand-made" and "one-of-a-kind" into an entirely separate eBay platf...

Resolved! The Community System Status Board--exactly what is it for?

I can't help myself...I gotta ask. Why is there a Systems Status Board in Community if it doesn't reflect site problems? Right this minute this Selling board is lighting up with threads about a major listing glitch, yet that board has a cheery green ...

Variation listings

When you sell similar an item that previously had variations, how do you remove the variations from that listing? What didn't work for me was removing the variation or setting the quantity to zero, because that resulted in the price, quantity and UPC...

Does anybody know why the Spring Update Threads are all locked now?

I was just over at the Spring Update thread area, and noticed that all the topic threads are now locked. What happened?

eBay Cannot guarantee exact listing durations, but we must guarantee DELIVERY TIME! Hahah!

"Your listing may not be immediately searchable by keyword or category for several hours (or up to 24 hours in some circumstances). eBay can't guarantee exact listing durations." I am just howling over so many things on here today. The quote above wa...

Sick of eBay using my listings for free platform for sponsored links

I'm totally sick of eBay driving their users to other sites using my listings as the platform. They can offer as many 'free' listings in the month, send emails every day trying to attract business. They are driving business away so I for one am not g...

Question Regarding Selling Higher Priced Items

I'm a retired person and I've been content for the past few years in selling lower priced items. I've never gone past the $100.00 mark when selling books, cds, magazines, albums, toys, and whatever. I use USPS to ship becasue I'm conveniently a coupl...

Resolved! Sold item which was damaged / lost in transit. Need to cancel. How to avoid a defect?

Sold and shipped an item. Tracking indicated that package had left on was on it's way. Over the next several days, it kept updating with it's on it's way and then stopped updating. Just as I was going to start a missing mail search the buyer contacts...

Charged during Free Listing Promos

Feb. 28th 2018 835pm **ATTN Selllers** Please check your listings to make sure you're not charged for Free Promo Listings and also Promotional Offers being Activated without your knowledge. I just noticed this on my Account and called eBay. Customer ...

Resolved! Business Insertion Fees

Hi. I just opened up a Business Account and when i want to list an item ebay wants to charge me a .30 cent fee for my listing. I have an individual account but i do not get charged any fees to list a product. Is it because i have a business account n...

PSA: If you list 4000 BINs a month you should get an Anchor Store

With the spring update introducing 2 new store categories there's talk about a huge gap between the Premium Store and the Anchor Store because of the gap between 1000 listings and 10000. That's rubbish, because you don't need to list 10000 BINs a mon...

Insertion Fee for Revising a 30 day fixed price listing

Today I was charged an INSERTION FEE for Revising a 30 day fixed price listing which has just over 5 days time remaining. It was specifically stated as an "Insertion Fee". Happened when chaging the international shipping option. Only happened with on...

Why do some really obscure records sell for hundreds of dollars?

Why? and why can I never find any at the used record store and garage thrift store? these are mostly classical and violin stuff. I looked in sold auction column and some sold for hundreds...33's and 78's