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Need Help in the correct way to fill out form on listing for shipping of merchandise.

I'm a long time user of ebay. Had my first sale back in the late 1990's. After many years of only making purchases, I'm now back hoping to sell. I'm totally thrown for a loop with all the drop down menus and the lack of freedom to fill out my own inf...

How to Handle a Redelivery on Returned Item?

I sent out an item to a buyer and the tracking shows as Delivered. The buyer is claiming that the post office is returning the package because "there was a problem with the shipment". And wants to know if i can reship it to a new address. They said t...

New Unwritten Policy Against Sale of Cow Bone - I Guess Sellers Need to Have ESP

I just had 2 Civil War era scrimshaw cups removed. They were made from cow bone. They are not even close to looking like ivory. And every similar example ever sold on eBay or elsewhere online says they are made of cow bone (never ivory). When I conta...

"Restricted" art print in my store - but lots of porn sent to me as suggestions!

eBay persistently blocks one of my listings - a tame little print of a woman with hens 257079791643 and labeling it "adult only. Verification required" because of stylized breasts in line drawing - while at the same time populating the "suggestions" ...

Account restriction and holding funds for 170days

Need some assistance as ebay decided to restrict my account and I can no longer buy/sell on ebay. With no appeal no reason given, I decided to give up on appeal but when I ask for my funds, they told me it will be release 170days after suspension. Do...

Condition and Seller Notes - Duplicated Formatting Problem

This happens during bulk editing of "Condition". Most-likely, the behavior is identical for single listing edit as well but I have not tested it yet. The text cannot be formatted properly, whether created on the spot, or pre-formated and pasted. The ...

eBay coma

Ive been seeing some disappointment with everything in my store lately. Is it just me? No sales dead ?

SELLING

I would just like to make a comment about the extent eBay is going to make additional money by promoting stores that sellers can pay extra for them to do so. It sickens me that when a customer pulls up one of my listings, all the work, taking picture...

Buyer canceled an order due to a prank

I sell handmade voodoo dolls, well yesterday afternoon I received a message from a user asking if I can ship a voodoo doll without paperwork, I sent back "sorry I can't do that, then last night I received 2 separate orders, after printing the label f...

Automatic returns for Auto Parts bad, sooo bad mrrga

I sold a brand new Auto Part and got a return request just didn't like it. I got it back today and Black Fingerprints all over the part. Black Grease on white electrical connectors. The most Uncouth Shady Mechanic Fingerprints . I caved and refunded ...

Nighty night -- sleep tight -- and don't let the bed-bugs bite!

Stumbled out of bed this morning at 7:18 AM (Minnesota time) -- shrugged into yesterday's clothing from where I had left them scattered on the floor -- acknowledged to my wife that I would start her coffee -- came downstairs and opened the curtains t...

3 MINUTES WARNING!

I Let me start by saying that as a long time seller and buyer I found the vast, vast majority of people I dealt with to be civil and fair. I just couldn't stop laughing when I read the second message from this buyer. The irony is that this buyer is a...

A new sales tax just for resellers

Resellers will pay a sales tax on their final value fees, which are now considered to be a Taxable Data Processing Service in Texas. A new sales tax just for resellers 7:25 Midwest Picker Resellers Beware: Texas Passes a New Tax Law 6:45 ChaChingKing...

Unfair eBay Penalties that are not changing anything but lead to alienate long time sellers

I’ve been selling on eBay since 2001, and I’ve seen every incarnation of how this platform has evolved. I was even told years ago that when eBay took over processing payments, it would mean lower fees for sellers. Instead, here’s where we are now:Tax...

eBay Export Credibility: Example from US Custom Tariffs

eBay Export is a division managed by eBay Marketplaces GmbH in Germany. Since POTUS announced the implementation of US Custom Tariffs and this division is creating unnecessary panic among sellers that leads to one result: Maximize eBay revenue from n...