Seller News: June 2026
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Resolved! Massive negative balance after refunding buyer???
Long story short, I sold an item for $1,711.03. Ebay took $240.61 for fees so I made $1,470.42. I spent $43.71 of that on shipping. The buyer wanted a return and I accepted. After getting the item back and confirming that all was well, I went into th...
New seller thinks ebay does not read concerns about buyers behavior as it was a obvious buyer issue
I had an experience only one month after starting eBay that has me stopping all activity and pausing to think if I want to continue selling on this platform. If they cannot see how they should be backing me on this, I can't trust them to back me when...
Culling the Herd aka New Defect Rate For Sellers
Just finished reading the new selling standard guidelines to be implemented in August of 2014. All I can say is "WOW!". While this will not likely impact those that sell primarily new product (or those from overseas that ebay seems to coddle) this wi...
Bait and Switch
I bought the Harry Potter book series and what arrived was a cookbook from 1992. Seller said so sorry, return it and you will get a refund and by the way were sold out of the Harry Potter books. I looked on their store and they still have the Harry P...
Seller fees paid on SALES TAX as well??!?!? Dafuq Ebay??
Yep. Check it out. Did anyone notice that the 15+/- percent you pay in seller fees is also charged against shipping... AND SALES TAX collected by ebay?? We pay fees on TAX!! We don't get the tax. We don't pay the tax. But we pay FIFTEEN PERCENT fees ...
I’m Done
After approximately eight years of selling on eBay part time… I’m done. The final straw came the other day when EBay forced me to refund a buyer who destroyed a used pristine iPad 11” Pro and then returned it. I’m out a $280 sale and the so-called bu...
eBay International DISASTER
I apologize if this is long, but my god... I never in a million years could've imagined an experience this awful. I'm here posting this now with the hopes that maybe someone may be able to give me some insight or just to open a space for people to co...
EBAY IS THREATENING TO TAKE MY ACCOUNT AWAY BASED ON COVID SMH
I WAS HOSPITALIZED FROM MARCH UNTIL JULY 4TH WITH COVID I WAS IN ACOMA - WHEN I DIED OF COVID IT WAS THE DAY AFTER I HAD POSTED 200 ITEMS FOR SALE - OBVIOUSLY NO ONE KNEW I WAS IN A HOPSITAL ETC. MY DAUGHTER, AND MY ASSISTAND CALLED EBAY AND CHATTED ...
Tried to open a shop and got removed
I had put up some personalised Items and note pads and then got removed and I have been told me it was because they wanted my ID. Sent it then they removed me permanently and refuse to tell me what I did wrong or why.
buyers
Ebay will side with the buyer 99.9% of the time, and that is a fact. Perhaps one day we will get another site like ebay that judges based on the evidence, but until then you sellers are in a pickle. Take down serial numbers, take pictures. Try sellin...
eBay, It is the small volume sellers that made you what you are today... Don't abandon them......
As a member for over 20 years, I clearly remember how over the last two decades, eBay has gradually shifted its selling policies to favor the the high volume corporate sellers. The small sellers who made eBay what it is today have been abandoned. Eve...
New Payment System = The Last Straw For Me
It's almost funny at this point how every single new policy ebay rolls out makes things worse and worse for their sellers......First it was the inability to opt out of allowing ebay to charge your account whatever the hell they want if you want to do...
Ebay is targeting Sellers
We just had a listing pulled because they stated about a Child Safety Issue, Which is a Joke, Because I have documentation from the manufacture / CPSIA stating that it is 100 % Fine, But yet I go into ebay and search the product and GUESS WHAT . They...
Need help :( !!! MC011 and Frozen Funds
I have recently received a MC011 which restricted my account. Before the restriction, I happened to have linked my bank account to ebay, instead of receiving payment from paypal. Now ebay withholds all my funds....how can i get the money back? is it ...
Authentication of valued items
eBay instituted a practice of having valued items sent to an authenticator before sending it to the buyer. This makes sense as it provides a level of protection to the buyer and for the time being there is not supposed to be any cost to the buyer of ...
