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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...

Obscene Shipping Costs

There's an item (an old Stearns life jacket) I'm looking at. The price for the item is $12, but the seller has shipping at $195.61. USPS Priority Mail quotes $26 for a flat rate box between the relevant areas. Is there anything I can do to fight on s...

How do I do an "after the fact" combined shipping?

Customer bought 4x items and already paid for them. I want to pack them together to save him some shipping cost and save me from doing more packing. How do I work this so that ebay can confirm that they were all shipped under one shipping label?

Canada postal strike

By now you have seen the news about the Canadian postal strike. For those not familiar with it you might want to check out Pirateship.,com. (instead of refusing an order) They are still accepting AND DELIVERING mail to Canada. Except, instead of the ...

Shipping Thru USPS is Killing my Business

I ship paper napkins... anywhere from 1 set (of two napkins) up to 75+ sets. I ship all my items FREE to my customers. I add tracking on orders of 7+ sets, but orders with less than 7 sets just go regular USPS with no tracking. Even though I get the ...

Buying from Japan - Export customs

Hello,I have purchased something from Japan (around $1600 usd) and It is currenlty held at japanese customs.I understand I will have to pay export tax etc and that is fine, not a problem. My question is, is do the Japanese customs send out the paymen...

When I try to edit or create a shipping policy the window hangs up and will not close.

This has happened before. I tried to edit a policy and when I click "Save and close" it just hangs there without closing or saving the changes. Working on a Mac, not the latest one. Tobiasness

Update on Canada Post Strike

Can I drop letters or parcels in the mail in the meantime?No. Canada Post has said it isn't accepting new items until the national disruption is over. Anyone buying from a seller in Canada where shipping is done by Canada Post, particularly items tha...

Resolved! Buyer wants me to ship to her PO Box 3 large items--Costs much more than she paid me--HELP!

I am a fairly new Seller & haven't run into this before...Thanks in advance.

eBay charged price adjustment of $118

I shipped an item using a prepaid eBay label with UPS. I weighed and measured it and UPS packaged it. Now I’m being charged an extra $118.

Combined Shipping Calculator

I don't deal with change very well, but with eBay you have to. I sell comic books and people buy multiple books. They request an invoice with combined shipping. Before it used to spell it out what USPS will charge and what eBay will charge. With the ...

ups cost adjustment

Can anyone tell me why I was hit with a additional charge that was more than what I had originally paid. As near as I can tell I had the measurements and weight correct

Why is my paypal payment method not being used for shipping. They keep taking from my bank acct.

Long, Long Term seller - Ebay is trying to screw us again. I am using my Paypal account as I always have to pay for shipping (using the preferred method of a credit card). Lately, when I buy an item it still works properly, but when I ship something ...

re my buyer

I recently had an item which clearly stated "collection" only. I have a disability and could not physically pick up the item myself to package and send it. It was purchased, it's a vintage computer. The buyer asked if it could be sent as she did not ...

Ebay expects me to ship on a non working day.

What the heck eBay. -.-

Can I use an eBay standard envelope on a usps flat rate envelope

I usually ship things with an eBay standard envelope in a normal white envelope. To keep shipping costs low, I wanted to use the free flat rate envelopes that usps offers. My question is can I put and eBay standard envelope label on a flat rate usps ...