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Looking for something new to sell? Find out how to sell and connect with other members for advice.

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Shipping

Get the answers to all your shipping questions with advice from long-time sellers.

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Buying

Discover tried-and-true techniques for better bidding and buying on eBay from fellow experienced mem...

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Payments related discussions, questions, and input shared here

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Returns

Discuss how to manage returns with fellow sellers

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Seller Tools

Make selling successful with helpful tools, services, and apps on eBay.

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Mobile Apps

Need help or want to share feedback about the eBay Android and iOS mobile apps? This is the place to...

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New to selling on eBay

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Store Issues

Our store has had serious issues since about January 21st give or take a day or so. We have reported them at least 20 times. This last round of issues are going to put us out of business. We have just under 11,000 listings. Q3/Q4 2023 we had an avera...

VAT within EU

Hello, I have a question about VAT. The seller is from Spain, I’m from Bulgaria so both countries are within EU. On the bill there is 20% VAT. I’ve never paid VAT when buying from Spain or any other EU country. Does anybody know why now there is VAT ...

why is ebay adding the sales tax to the seller's income from sale. Sellers never receive sales tax

I couldn't believe my eyes, but apparently Ebay is charging the seller to include the sales tax to the amount received, we don't receive any sales tax from customers, and when they get their 12% which already way too high, but this is downright theft...

ebay search within my own store not working properly. 0 results on only some titles?

Anyone had this problem? I cleared cookies tried multiple browsers. I am searching active listings within my own store (Overview -> Listings -> Active) to check my own active inventory. It is giving me 0 results on several titles. for example:search:...

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Immediate payouts issue

Is anyone else having issues with immediate payouts? I sent a payout at about 1pm today and it is now about three and a half hours later and my (immediate) 30 minutes or less payment is still processing. This has never happened before it's either wen...

Accidentally ordered a fake pair of AirPod max’s

Hi there I recently ordered some green AirPod maxes and the serial number on the box seemed legit. After further speculation I found some red flags on the box leading me to believe they aren’t real despite the serial number. The seller says they are ...

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Search shows extremely high shipping cost

I'm a seller in Canada and I've noticed that my sales to the USA have dropped off significantly. When searching on ebay.com (or ebay.ca), the shipping fees show significantly higher in the search results than on the listing itself, whenever any US zi...

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First time Selling

This is my first time selling on ebay and I sold an item to two different accounts, yet the shipping labels have the exact same address to ship to. Is this a middle-man, or a scam. Thank you.

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Resolved! Ebay sent cockroaches and Spiders to people..

this was a while back, ebay was found guilty of sending cockroaches and spiders to people( who I assume had held there feet to the fire). anyway fyi, this is the kinda people yer dealing with..

Resolved! What is "Ad Fee Standard"

I listed an item with 2% promo ad fee, however, when the item sold, I was charged 13% "ad fee standard." What's going on?

Shipping label suddenly password protected

Hello community after I purchase a label thru ebay, and then try to print it I get a technical difficulties try again message: and I also get 2-3 printer error ebay shippimg label this document is password protected notifications: so then I save lab...

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Resolved! Ebay charging 20+% fees for sales?

I was recently running some numbers on my latest sales on Ebay, and I realized that as of January 2024 I'm consistently being charged ~20% fees for every item I sell. I deducted the standard $0.30 per sale from the transactions and ran a percentage o...

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Has the category breakdown that shows how things are listed, disappeared from the top of the page?

Has the category breakdown that shows how things are listed disappeared from across the top of the page? It is very useful for me as a seller to see how I should list similar items, and also useful for me as a buyer to give me a variety of ideas on h...