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Local Pickup: Why purchase before pickup? Defeats purpose.

The whole point of local pickup is the buyer meet seller, inspects item, and then purchases it. That way there are no disputes. But it seems that is not the case. So how does it work? Any what about the option to accept cash payment?

Scammers on high value electronics item (computer graphics card)

I am trying to sell my Nvidia 4090 graphics card as I upgraded to a 5090 (was lucky to get one). I am getting a LOT of scam accounts that "buy" my item and send suspicious messages and have suspicious amounts of positive feedback on low value transac...

Ways to Give an Buyer an Appropriate Feedback?

I recently received a dishonest feedback (could be an honest mistake but I doubt it) from a buyer who wrote a feedback that was inaccurate about what was sent to him. I wrote a detailed message to eBay explaining why the feedback I received should be...

send offer heartache

I sold a book for less than my asking price and the listing doens't say it was from an offer. I called CS which showed me I have "automatic" offer on 176 listings and tough luck, I have to manually change all of them. I have gone through a bunch and ...

no sales on ebay are we still up and running ?

Sales have came to a stop it is pretty sad when mecari and bonanza generates more sales then ebay is anyone else feeling the pain ? i have almost 1,100 items listed and normally get 3 to 4 sales a day but the past 2 weeks everything came to a stop i ...

Negative Feedback

I sold an item 6 weeks ago and was contacted by the buyer today claiming that the item was not as described and they wanted a refund and an apology. The item was a glass seed bead handbag. The glass beads were sewn on a rigid fiber material. Buyer sa...

how to promote a sale to help pay funeral expenses for wife of 62 years

My wife of 62 years was admitted to the hospital on Feb 28th with a heart attack. She passed away March 9th. I have been tied up with funeral arrangements until today. I am now trying to raise cash to help pay for the bills coming in. Our insurance d...

buyer who lost out on bid wants to buy the items after other buyer cancelled

original buyer cancelled almost instantly after sale was made. Then another watcher or bidder asked to buy the items. I told them I go through ebay. How do I proceed ?

Returning a counterfeit purchase

I feel weird doing this. Obviously I got got and I want my money back but (also obviously) they're going to get their fake item back and use it to scam someone else, probably through one of the other 100 accounts they have set up. I can't even leave ...