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Resolved! Received the only $0.01 bid but winner does not pay

If a bidder and a winner does not pay $0.01 for an item they won (without any competition from other bidders) then there's something wrong with e—bay, the bidder or the economy, or all of those together. Perhaps e—bay is blocking the buyer from payin...

Resolved! I sold an item after accepting an offer from another buyer. Did I fail?

An item had a best offer in play to several watchers (I think because I can't recreate that sequence). I did accept an offer but a day or so later I received payment at my previous best offer rate and I sold and shipped it. Now the person whose offer...

Resolved! Will I get "For Below Standard" fees back if my appeal for defect was granted?

My account went below standard on April 1st and ever since then I have been paying an additional 6% for the final value fee. I had 3 "cases closed without seller resolution" on February and 1 in March for a total of 4. The 4th one on March is what le...

Resolved! How does ebay standard envelope tracking actually work?

So I have been a bit frustrated of late regarding the unreliability of tracking for ebay standard envelope and would like the communities input on how this is supposed to work. Ebay touts this as a great thing but I have numerous examples of items be...

Suspicious buyer

I couldn't find a related post to this and as of now haven't had any issues, but I recently sold 2 low cost items to the same person about a week apart to 2 different buyer accounts (same name, address, and very similar user name). The weird part is ...

Change from business account to personal .. don't have a valid ein atm

Payments are being held needing verification of business ein . I just looked at my business account and it's been temporary shutdown. How do I get my account back to personal..

Rate your experience

So I was quickly going to my awaiting shipments page in my tablet and seconds after the page loaded a pop up came out. I recall it said “Rate your experience” and there was an option to give stars. My instinct kicked in and I closed that pop up so fa...

lied to and belittled by customer service person on phone who can I go to??

Hello forum I need some help on who I can contact that will help me with a major problem I had with a customer service rep that I had just talked to she wouldn't listen to my problem and talked over me told me that a item I just won was a reserved I ...

Resolved! Has eBay done away with UPI strikes for non paying buyers?

For the first time in a long time I have a buyer who is not responding. I looked to see if I still had my NPB settings and every help article on eBay just says they will cancel the sale after 4 days. Nothing about UPI strikes for the buyer. Just curi...

Resolved! How to ship postcards?

Hi, I have a lot of vintage/antique postcards. How should I ship them? I sold and shipped one in a 9x6 rigid mailer, but it cost $3.79. How do sellers only charge $1 or $2 for shipping? I listed shipping as Standard Shipping USPS First Class Large En...

Resolved! Ended Listings

My Christmas item listings have ended and I want to wait a couple months before relisting them. Are they going to still be relistable or does eBay delete them after some time?

Just got my first “ I never received the item I bought” notice. USPS tracking shows “delivered”

Buyer is requesting a refund. I shipped insured-( total cost for item including postage and insurance is under $9.00.). I’ve sold hundreds if items with fabulous feedback. Help / Suggestions? Thanks!

Ebay ads - Do they work

So ebay has been touting about their ads so I thought I would give it a shot on one of my sites.So I spent $111.65 in ad fees and got 6.97% fewer clicks than the month before, now the month before I did spend $20 on Twitter or X now, I guess I got so...

Item removed from Ebay

I have been a seller on Ebay for a long time. An item was removed from my site and I am restricted for 3 days. the item was an adult item of which there are about 900 other items listed by this same author. My item was taken off and these other items...