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Seller Protections are in place for shipping delays.

The United States is experiencing severe weather across several regions of the country, and we are tracking impacts to shipping and delivery. Our primary concern is that you and your close ones stay safe. However, you may also be concerned about ship...

Shipping buyer and seller both pay

I've read other forms about this but no one's being direct or clear about this. Why is eBay charging twice for shipping? The buyer and then we have to purchase the label.. what if we offer free shipping do we still have the shipping added on to our t...

ebay World Shipping Program stinks

I live in the US and buy from Britain. It used to be that the seller would ship directly. Now ebay has imposed a scheme. The seller ships to an ebay depot, and ebay ships to the buyer. It is stupid. I pay to ship twice. I just got a small package fro...

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How do you handle when package is returned "RTS" (return to sender) by USPS?

I've had a couple of Return To Sender packages returned to me. Post office shows:" Return to Sender. Unclaimed (or no such number). Unable to forward" When this occurs, I notify the buyer who typically then asks me to ship the item again. Because I a...

Delayed Shipment to Poland Cost $6000 HELP

I purchased three fur coats prior to Christmas. Upon receipt, they were not as pictured and poor quality. I requested return and items were mailed back to Poland. Fast forward after winter storms, global pandemic and war in Europe the coats laid in c...

USPS playing favorites?

I have an ebay seller account (Guy name and address). My wife has one also (Girl name and address). We each do our own thing as it relates to selling.However, I do all of the packaging and shipping for both accounts. Average about the same amount of ...

post office thefts. ebay punishes the sellers

The post offices in Tulsa had a rash of thefts the weekend of 2-3-23. my packages for two days were in the loss. Ebay is holding sellers responsible and lowering your seller Level. This happened to anyone else.

Resolved! Media mail no longer works for me

I sell vintage and antique magazines, books and posters on ebay and have listed each one for Media Mail postage. Over the past 6 months when a buyer selects the Media Mail listed in the ad, it automatically shifts over to Parcel Post. When the usual ...

Shipping Costs

Hello all,I recently had a buyer message me following a purchase saying that he wanted me to refund his shipping. I used the remaining costs to insure the package, but they demanded the shipment be refunded for shipping costs or else they would take ...

Fedex picked up my package but there’s no scan?!?!?!

I dropped off a package at FedEx Walgreens location. Walgreens scanned my package and it’s showing proof that I have dropped it off. However, there has been no updates since then. I personally went down to Walgreens to ask and they confirmed the driv...

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Do you lose money by using ebay shipping shipping labels?

So maybe I am not thinking this through clearly because I stink at math....but we save 11% by buying the shipping label through Ebay, correct? But Ebay adds the pre-discount cost to the total sales that they then take 12.55% of, correct?So Ebay still...

My former address is showing on printed shipping label

I just sold an item and printed the label. I was surprised that my old address is printed on the label, because since I've moved I've bought several items on eBay and of course they've been delivered to my current address. When I clicked on my "ship ...

eBay’s tracking info

The package I shipped got delivered by fedex and shows the picture of the package on the doorstep. But eBays tracking says not delivered yet and shows a lot of the tracking info and was pretty up to date the whole time until the package actually got ...