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Seller Initiated Offer automation

Every day, eBay sellers send targeted offers to reach interested buyers and drive more sales. To make this process even easier, some sellers choose to automate their offers, helping them engage buyers faster and save time. We want to provide some cla...

Account was hacked and they started selling 4 Xbox's for $400 each and I recieved a 1099-K days ago

The account that has posted this is not the one that the items were sold on because that account is suspended for selling fees (wasn't me). I contacted Ebay support to help me a couple minutes ago and they said my account was not hacked and that it w...

Prohibition of sales on Ebay from Ukraine

Starting in September 2023, my account has a restriction on placing new listings and editing current ones. I get the following error: "Unfortunately, we can't provide our services to customers located in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), the Luhan...

Ok this is getting ridiculous

Ever since ebay has been playing around with the platform my email box has been blowing up with everything under the sun ebay related, so I spent a couple hours to figure out what is going on, found the issue and unchecked all the boxes THAT I NEVER ...

Possible scam? Two different locations

Hi all, I’m selling a rather expensive item and had it listed on other sites where I ran into scammers, so I’m being a little cautious here. I accepted an offer from someone whose user name is saying textname(insert their number) I didn’t notice the ...

Placement of Promoted Listings Unfair to Individual Sellers?

Wondering how others feel about the format of eBay listings. In particular, the placement of promoted items. Don't misunderstand, I have promoted listings and they would be right there with the others so that's fair enough. But is it really fair to p...

Sales Tax as a Reseller

Hey guys, Wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. As a reseller on eBay, can you legally avoid paying sales tax on the items I sell since eBay remits the sales taxes on our behalf?

Items getting zero views

I've listed 10 items. Most items have 0 views after 3 days. Does ebays new system only show your item if you promote it? IS that the new game now? Death by a thousand cuts.

Trying to list and it keeps telling me "item specifics" is missing -

Always before it would highlight what is missing in red - this time it just keeps telling me the item specifics is missing but I have most of them filled in (never fill all of them in) - anyone else having this problem? Will not let me list my item.

I Keep Getting the Message That I Am Not Bidding on Items - But I Am!

Every time I go to check on items that I am bidding on, I get a page that says I am not bidding on any items. If I keep clicking on the Bids and Offers link, I may eventually get to view items I am bidding on but the caveat is that if I have two page...

Resolved! After Christmas Sales

What is your experience with after Christmas sales? I lowered prices on most of my merchandise - dolls mainly. Will they sell after Christmas? Should I increase price? Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks!

Ebay program putting sold items into unsold category

This is the second time this has happened. All of my sold auctions were put into the unsold category. A buyer contacted me and said they were not allowed to pay for the item. I am unable to send an invoice too.You would think by now ebay would have t...

Buyer can't find my item (even with a link to it)

I'm wondering if someone can give some technical information on this (to prove or disprove my theory on what's going on here). Buyer wants three items, combined into one lot for him with one postage charge (the postage charges to UK are the reason th...

Confusing buyer message for cancellation

I received a buyer message requesting me to cancel their order. No formal cancellation was filed. I checked and their message has a timestamp of a little more than an hour BEFORE they made the purchase.Unfortunately all this was done in the middle of...

Reporting a listing as copyright/intellectual property infringement

If I have reported a listing/item to eBay as infringing on copyright/intellectual material, what is the likelihood of eBay taking action and how long does it usually take?Backstory: the photo being used in another persons listing is mine (not a stock...

Buyer of the week

This week's winner messaged me asking me if I can personalize it by etching initials on the item. I said no. Then they bought the item shortly after. In the buyer notes they said to etch the initials on it if possible. I told them it's not possible b...