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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...

WARNING.! FEDEX is scamming their customers.

Warning.!Fedex is scamming their customers.This is the 2nd time Fedex has ridiculous overcharges on shipping items.Ebay phone rep and Fedex phone rep will just tell you contact the other party. Item weighed 48 lbs,I charged buyer $29,the supposed cos...

Resolved! Is eBay lagging on the USPS price hike?

I had a buyer make an auto-accepted offer on Monday. Then yesterday (Tue) they wrote me this:With no idea what she "usually" buys (this isn't just one piece but a lot, requiring a box), all I could guess was maybe I created the listing as a Sell Simi...

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Resolved! So does "Flat Rate" not mean FLAT RATE anymore???

These even have the same weight. The only difference is the higher-priced one is traveling further, but last I knew that wasn't supposed to matter either.

Resolved! USPS Failed to Scan Dozens of Packages – eBay Siding with Buyers and Withholding Funds

Hello eBay Seller Community, I wanted to share a recent and very troubling experience in hopes that others may have insight, advice, or have gone through something similar. On June 18–19, I dropped off several dozen trading card shipments—some in pla...

eBay Standard Envelope Prices Raised, Again

I just noticed "eBay Standard Envelope" shipping prices have increased again... $0.74 for 1 oz, $1.03 for 2 oz and $1.32 for 3 oz. It is still much cheaper than the smallest Ground Advantage option but am hoping with the price increase comes overall ...

All Ground Advantage Shipping Costs calculate as $9.06 as of today EDIT: EBAY FIXED IT!

Yes we knew price increase was coming but this is ridiculous! I had to buy shipping on shipstation for $5.09 each, but its a pain to be copy pasting all the addresses! EBAY FIX THIS NOW!

Shipping costs not showing for shipping artwork in a triangular priority mail cardboard box

Am a new seller and trying to determine how much it will cost to ship an art print using the USPS Priority Mail triangular cardboard box. I see nothing under shipping options for it. Post office did a general calculation from my address to farthest l...

$1,600 order, returned to sender

This is a new one on me. Buyer ordered Thursday, shipped Thursday, supposed to be delivered Friday, signature required."The company or receiver name is incorrect"? Buyer knew this was out for delivery yesterday. According to tracking, the order is he...

Why doesn't eBay reimburse sellers for items that USPS has lost?

About 6 of my packages have been reported "not received" by the buyer, and in 5 out of 6 cases eBay has refunded the buyer their money. The only time they did was when USPS claimed to have delivered the package to the address. In the other 5 cases US...

7/13 Shipping increase surprise for Ground Advantage

So, the retail price for shipping a collectible postcard worth more than $20 (needing to be shipped by Ground Advantage 1/4 lb for tracking) to zone 5 just increased from $5.85 to $7.90 on Sunday. That's a 35% increase, a long shot from the 9.8% "ave...

Expedited Shipping?

So I sold a pair of shoes over the weekend but im actually on vacating right now and won’t be back in town to ship them off till Saturday. Which I already contacted the buyer and made them aware of the situation and they was ok with it. However, they...

New Shipping format

What happened to the shipping calculator. I hate this new format. How can I override it?

USPS rate hike...WOW.

I just sold my first item today under the new USPS rate increase. 8 ounce package from Maine to California.It would have been cheaper to buy a round trip ticket FIRST CLASS and deliver in person. HA HA HA.

About shipping charges

Sorry this is so random. But ok here it goes. Recently I have been bidding on auctions and winning at great prices along with free shipping. Well when I get the invoice it has add on shipping fees which I didn't understand and I sent back to the sell...