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Resolved! Thoughts Go Out to All That Have Lost So Much

I see a lot of the same ole scams here on Selling and repeat requests for non-paying buyers... I was sitting in my back yard at dusk watching a spider build a new web from start to finish. Was impressed with the spiders persistence, repetition and pe...

Resolved! new seller, need help!

NEW STORE. LISTED MANY ITEMS BUT SALES ARE SLOW...ANY SUGGESTIONS? http://stores.ebay.com/avsdirect

So how do you guys prepare your business for hurricanes?

I know ebay helped texas out, but, I'm not one to trust ebay as far as I can throw them. They are quite heavy... So I'm in south Florida and we might have a bad one coming. Which means power outages and post office closures. I can't exactly afford to...

Tracking buyer wants

I'm looking for suggestions about adapting my selling process to track customer wants.My business model is fairly close to the "garage sale" model: I look for used items that my experience tells me are sellable, and I list the ones that pass various ...

Here we go again...buyer adds items to cart & can't request a total

This is beyond ridiculous. I removed the seller checked IPR the last time.

External Website policy

I am starting to sell my photographs on Ebay and will continue to do so, however I do have a more robust external website where people can customize their order and see a much larger selection of items for sale that I want to promote. My question is ...

Relisting of items paid for and sold

About a half year ago i sold about 15 items to one buyer who paid for all of them with shipping and asked me to refund the shipping cost as he lives nearby me and would pick them up in person. so i did this. the items are paid for but he never came t...

ebay to start providing our phone number to buyers Oct. 2017

If I'm reading this right, beginning in Oct. ebay is going to start providing seller's phone number to buyers after the sale. This is not going to work for me. Nevermind the privacy violations. I do not want every buyer from ebay's nutcase buyer pool...

Question about bsic store limits

Hi, I want to ask about the basic store limits.I`m thiking about subscribing to the basic plan which allows to list 200 items, my question is if there is any other limit like dollars $ ? My limit right now is - 440 items / 7,800$.If I will subscrib t...

responding to offers

Curious how other sellers deal with consistent low offers. Typically when I list an item I research what similar items have recently sold for and price my item at a price at and very often lower than that similar sold price. I more often than not rec...

Buyer Message: Why do you do not ship to my address?

I received the following message late last night from a potential buyer ... "Hi... I am confused, why do you do not ship to my address?" The message indicates the buyer is in California, and is not in my BBL, nor can I see any other restrictions, oth...

What happened to the market in 2013?

I've been selling on eBay since 2000, mostly estate collectibles and almost exclusively through auction listings without buy it now. I've been noticing what seemed like a pretty big increase in unsold items, so I went back to the beginning and did so...