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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...

Resolved! Disc Based Video Games & USPS Media Mail Shipping Service (REDUX)

I had some extra video games I wanted to sell. Looking for an appropriate price point, I search sold items and notice a ton of them sell for $5 total w/ free shipping. Looking at the pages show media mail as the shipping option. Media mail can't be u...

A package I sent to EIS in Illinois has been there since Feb 1st... going to UK

Normally when I send items to the EIS within a few days it gets the followup tracking number. This package (Which is a pair of sunglasses about $79 in value) has sat there since Feb 1st. This struck me as odd as its past the estimated delivery date n...

Mailing Eau de Parfum

I have a listing that says, "Can only mail in Continental USA." Someone from Slovenia bought & paid for it. Should I go ahead & refund the money without being penalized by ebay?

Changing the view in the Manage orders awaiting shipment table?

Hi:I'm starting to ramp up my selling on Ebay after a long time as a casual seller. I'd like to know if there is a way to change the view of the Manage orders awaiting shipment table to show additional columns like the listings table? I use the "Cust...

EIS Shipment to Canada with no movement since 12/15

I have an eBay International Shipment to Canada with no movement since 12/15/23. This shipment has been rec'd and processed through eBay's Glendale Height's processing center (on 12/15) and is showing 'Mail Consigned'. When you look at the Canada Pos...

Selling Trading Cards - USPS

Has anyone else had trouble with brutally slow shipping through the postal service? I sell a lot of lower priced items and ship with USPS Ebay standard shipping. It costs about $1.12, which is perfect fow the lower valued cards. Recently I've receive...

Resolved! What do you do when the post office doesn't take the packages? They are 6 & 7 pounders with 12"

What do you do when the post office doesn't take the packages? They are 6 & 7 pounders with 12" parameters. Our carrier is a stickler but I can't see anything wrong? What could cause this and I can't call eBay anymore - will be penalized for late shi...

educating the postal clerk

Today I told my friend the postal clerk that I was going to surprise him and I did because I handed him a big box to go Ground Advantage. He has always known me as a media mail girl. I said it was manga. He had no idea about it and started to check h...

Resolved! Just Great, Ebay just sent email notifying International Shipping on all my Listings

I opt out of International Shipping because of the hassle dealing with International buyers....Oh well, another dictatorship move by Ebay to boost their sales....and infuriate sellers

Item damaged after leaving ebay international shipping hub

Does anyone know what to do about an item that was damaged during shipping through the ebay international shipping hub?

shipping dishes

I am experimenting with trying to sell dishes and I am anxious to get it right in terms of packing them to ship. I am wondering if any of you pros were ever told you overdid it with packing? Maybe meaning the boxes then weighed too much?

Combined shipping when buyer using autopay thru PayPal

I recently sold 2 wigs (2 different listings) and the buyer sent me a message saying she wanted both wigs and requested combined shipping, which I agreed to. She sent me an offer for each individual wig and when I accepted them, her PayPal account im...

Resolved! Creating shipping policy difficulties

With each new USPS change I have to change policies. Today I tried to create a new one and found that no mater what I place in the policy name it is rejected. They also say my choice of same for all and first class 2 to 5 days is wrong. I miss the ol...

Once again the post office reports a $2+ Billion loss. Except it's all bleep.

NO, actually they did not lose money This is a very old story. One which apparently nobody bothers to actually read. If you dissect the info you will see that they made an operating PROFIT of $472 million. HOWEVER the Federal government has foisted o...

Anyone else having problems with ebay's shipping edit link.

I made a listing and can't edit the price for shipping.The link is broken ... "www.ebay.com refused to connect" ... pops up.Anyone else having this problem?