eBay

Would it be insulting to ask a seller to sell something for a fixed price?

There's a seller that I've bought about 10 items from recently. I generally snipe his items and the prices for these (very similar) items have all been within $5 of each other. This seller has a new item listed and it's a 7 day auction. I'd like to p...

eBay Community Glossary

Good morning! Alan is going to incorporate a glossary of common Board terms and acronyms to the community. This is different from the acronyms link on eBay.com as it is Community-specific. If you have a moment, please take a look at the list below an...

Buyers/Sellers Using Profanity

Just curious if any other sellers and or buyers have ever gotten messages from a buyer/seller and laced with profanity?We seem to have one and after many calls the CS (Asia) found it's not any violation even though Ebay has a profanity policy. Never ...

Problem with an internanional sale

An overseas byuer asked for a cheapest possible shipping. It means without a tracking number ans long delivery time (surface transport). The buyer was informed about 6-8 weeks delivery time. After 4 weekd he opened a case: Item hasn't arrived. It cou...

SCAMMER

I am trying to sell a brand new with tags wedding gown and someone purchased it. I then got multiple texts from them saying they had paid through pay pal and to check my junk mail for the email. (All of my pay pal emails go to my inbox so my guard we...

sales tax

I would like to suggest that if ebay would let me block sales to my state I would not have to charge sales tax or pay my state out of my earnings. I can block countries, and I can block individuals just get the programmers to let us block a state or ...

500 free fixed priced listings over 7 days. Perfect! Thank you eBay.

payment pending in PayPal account according to Ebay

I sold item via auction and it closed Friday June 17. The buyer completed checkout Sunday June 18. There was (and still is) a little egg timer next to the transaction details page and it states payment pending through paypal. I logged into Paypal and...

editing photos

everytime i list something and i get to photos it wont let me edit them. any ideas why???

Seahorse Skeleton - is it allowed

Hello everyone. i have acquired a tiny seahorse skeleton. Am I allowed to sell it? Thank you.

Fulfillment by Amazon undercutting eBay?

As a buyer, I am extremely unhappy with eBay for the first time and will preface this by saying I stopped using Amazon becuase of its monopolistic practices. I recently bought two rather inexpensive items I needed from the same eBay seller (appx $10 ...

Weakly Chat's debate about the term "Sponsered Listing"

Surprised to see many other's have the same reaction to seeing the "Sponsored" label on a listing. For some reason for me it is a turn off. I will almost always skip that listing without even thinking about it.... and I don't even hate the program it...

Cancelling bids, seller beware! HELP!

Sorry, this may come across as a rant, but I really don't know what to do from here. I had an item up starting at $5, which was then bid up to $52 by two bidders. Within the last 15 minutes of the auction, the highest bidder asked me to cancel their ...

Why can't I list in a certain/different category?

Hey all! I'm new to the eBay selling community and have encountered an issue when listing. The majority of my listings are in eBay motors, however, I want to list two items in a different category (Baby - Feeding - High Chairs). Even when I choose fr...

Accept Buyers Best Offer

But then Ebay recorded transaction as full price and charged buyer full price. Anyone else seeing this? What should I do about it? I don't want to pay one red cent more in fees than I need to.How does this even happen?