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swrwizard
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Community Member since ‎03-19-2011
‎01-22-2025

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auto-charging for auction items

01-21-2025
Has anyone noticed eBay's busy work has now resulted in the corruption of the buying process? This auto-charging function is complete fraud as far as I'm concerned. Virtually 99%+ of my purchases & sells are for comics which is subject to 95%+ combin...

Retracting bids days after placing them

04-23-2022
I remember when I started on eBay that my ability to retract a bid was limited to a reasonable, but short period of time. 1 to 2 hrs after placing a bid...maybe just 1 hour. Now a bidder can wait until the auction period has only 12 hours left to ret...

Blatant Shill Bidding by Sellers on their own items

10-18-2021
Has anyone noted what comprises shill bidding activity? I bought comics on eBay on & off for over a decade now. I can't help but note how there ARE some bidders who aggressively run up the bids on items with certain sellers only after I put bids down...

What is the incentive to open a Starter Store

05-20-2021
The only reason I would open a store is to get the reduced Final Value Fee rate! The Starter Store is all I would open, but I would NOT get the discounted rate! I'd still only use the existing free listing allotment. What's my incentive?

Making additional bids to ensure an auction win

12-26-2018
Recently I've noticed that when I outbid another bidder on an item by a small amount(such as 1 cent) & make another bid right after, eBay treats my 1st bid like it doesn't exist! In other words, when I make another bid, eBay increases my cost to the ...
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