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Holiday Shipping Dates

We’ve published the carriers' last days to ship for on-time holiday delivery using the services available through eBay Labels. These dates will help ensure your buyers receive their orders in time for the holidays. You can find the details at ebay.co...

How to ship small items cheaply?

Ok so today for example I am actually shipping something to our daughter 250 miles away in a 4 x 6 vinyl mailer that weighs 2 oz. I go to usps click n’ ship and the cheapest label I can buy is like $2.90. While this is not an eBay item today, I run i...

Held at Post Office, At Customer Request

A package I shipped to the buyer was supposed to be delivered on Friday 7th. Come Friday, the tracking number updated to Delivery AttemptFebruary 7, 2020 at 3:54 pmHeld at Post Office, At Customer Request It's now Monday 10th and no further update. H...

USPS is OUT OF CONTROL with their shipping price hikes and ebay doesnt care

This is what happens when you pay these clowns huge salaries and huge pensions.... Just like cities who are all going broke because they cant afford to pay out monster pensions When does it end? Why aint ebay fighting against this or getting us bette...

Paying with paypal but ebay didn't see it.

I've been using ebay since 2006. I've always paid with paypal. I saw an auction for a new helmet, bid and won. In payment methods the seller did not have paypal, even so I forced the seller to use paypal and paid the item by paypal. Since the seller ...

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Not as Described: time from receipt of shipping label to closing case

Buyer receives broken goods and opens return case. 30 days to resolve. On day 27, Seller sends Buyer a Return Label. How long does Seller have to use it? I hear 5 days, or 5 business days, but I haven't seen a specific link to this policy, and these ...

Returns for stated “not as described”

Does anyone else think frequent eBay buyers know the system about not as described and if they have buyers remorse, automatically state that even though what they state as not as described is not only described but also photographed them we have to p...

EBay really screwed me out of some money on a return for one of my items

Basically it's the classic case of someone receiving an item and then just deciding they don't want it. I decided to try appeal it because I had really good pictures on my listing... and a description saying exactly what was included. The seller said...

returning an item

This was a first in a long time that I had used Ebay, I thought I had done everything correctly checked sellers ratings looked good but as usual Murphy's law if anything can go wrong it will. I am asking in advance as I am now wondering how this will...

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usps shipping is high on anything over a pound

cost over 8 bucks to ship a small box to the next state over . it only weighed a lil over a pound . anther reason not to sell anything heavy with such small profit Purchase Total$20.00 USDSales Tax$0.00 USDShipping Amount$8.49 USDHandling Amount$0.00...

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Resolved! Refund Requested After 5+ Weeks

I sold an Onkyo TX-8160 Network Stereo Receiver for $180. The buyer paid shipping, $17.27. They received the item on Jan 4, 2020. I just received a refund request today, Feb 11, 2020. The only comment was "It does not work". The item worked fine when...

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Buyer wants to return only 2 items that were sold as a set of 3

I sold a set of 3 action figures (all the same figure). The buyer as sent me a question stating that they only want 1 of the figures, Can they return 2 of the figures and get a refund on them? I am thinking that since they were sold as a set of 3, th...

Underpaid shipping NEW policy as of July 1st 2017???

I just mailed out an item I sold today with a prepaid postage label I purchased through ebay. I miscalculated the weight since I decided to double box the item and when I went to the post office to drop off the package and make sure it was ok, the pa...

USPS claims I paid wrong shipping fee

Has this happened to you? I got an E-mail from eBay that I paid First Class fee and used a Priority Box. Totally untrua. This was a small item and I used a small brown, used cardboard box from a store, no priority anything, tape, labels etc. The box ...

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