Today I added a picture and text to an auction that has bidders, using
the area at the bottom of the auction that is for description added
after there are bidders. I want to be sure that all the existing bidders
will be notified of this, as the infor...
After spending an hour trying to edit a buyer's address down to
something that would be accepted by the eBay shipping utility (Paypal
behaved the same) I gave up and hacked the label in Photoshop to match
what the buyer had on file. This is not the f...
So yesterday at about 3PM PDT, the eBay collections department sent out
a message to sellers all over the world saying that the seller was
behind in their fee payments and that the matter needed their immediate
attention to preserve their selling acc...
@superkeycomics @llllady @wolf*song Thanks everybody for the notice that
zoom now works. It reminds me of the old saying that you feel better
when you stop bashing your head against a wall. Has anyone seen an
announcement from eBay? Mike
[Experienced sellers can ignore.] Today I looked for one of my auctions
by submitting a simple search (in this case "Rollei 35," a compact 35mm
camera from the 70's). Two hundred items came up, but not mine. Then I
noticed that eBay had changed the s...
@designerfashionfinds Could be any of the suggestions, but I once heard
the following explanation. Say you want to sell only to a specific
category of buyer, or you want to get a feel for the buyer before
closing the sale. So you put the item up at a...
@sscot6 This link is a little old, but still valuable:
https://www.ebay.com/gds/What-is-the-best-day-to-list-or-end-ebay-items-/10000000176793995/g.html
It looks like you are correct about Sunday evenings. Mike
Question: If I have a singular item for sale (i. e., I only have one
listed) and somebody puts it in their cart and does not check out, does
that prevent some other buyer from buying it? Mike
@richard1rst Try shipping to China sometime. Many addresses that are
recorded by eBay for Mainland users are flagged by the shipping label
app as defective. I've seen some that were simply truncated after 20 or
30 characters on one line. Luckily, my ...
