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eBay Restricting use of outdated Internet Security Protocol

Hi eBay Members, eBay has decided to restrict the use of outdated Internet Security Protocol, SSL 3.0, because we have determined that it does not meet our standards. As such, some Turbo Lister users could see some connectivity issues. For more infor...

Holiday Returns available in Turbo Lister

Hi Turbo Lister Users, The option to apply Holiday Returns in Turbo Lister is now available in the Beta version of the program. When deciding whether or not to be a Beta user, please keep in mind that the beta versions aren't free of bugs, nor are th...

Recent Issues w/Turbo Lister Sign In

Hi Turbo Lister Users, A recent Windows update has caused some programs, including Turbo Lister, to crash. To sign-in to Turbo Lister before the improved Windows update is released, please follow these steps: Open Internet Explorer Open the Tools men...

THOUGHT OF THE DAY - re shipping from Canada

Well this little tidbit that blew me out of the water this morning...... This note came from one of my customers from FRANCE. A little background... He was looking for a certain body for one of his RC cars, he thought I may be able to help...... I di...

Paypal Shipping

Hi Guys, I know the answer has been posted here before, but I can't find it. If someone pays for an item by credit card and not through eBay is there a way to be able to use the Paypal/CP shipping label system or do they have to be shipped in the tra...

Ebay and Paypal give me no help with a disputed claim. Any ideas?

Recently I have gone through a claim process with my wife that has made me want to pack up everything I have on Ebay and go somewhere else. Here's the reason why: My wife upgraded her account to a seller account a month ago in order to sell some item...

Internet Merchants Association Membership Renewal

Does anyone know where I can complain about getting a refund from IMA? I signed up for a membership last year but I was not interested in renewing it. Never-the-less, I was charged for another year's membership without question or authorization. I ha...

New Lower Pricing for ProStores

Recently announced on eBay.com. Check this http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200906151050522.html ..."new promotional offers for PowerSellers – including a subscription fee waiver for eBay PowerSellers at the Gold, Platinum, and Titanium levels. Maybe I'l...

Canada post and signed for delivery

Hi; I am shipping a package to the US and the value is over $600. Canada post does not offer a signature on delivery ... how do you send expensive packages at a reasonable cost? Thanks

What accounting software to use ?

I want to use a inexpensive / free accounting software that can track inventory, sales, purchases and Taxes of course (GST and PST) so preferably a Canadian oriented software or any other software that is configurable to handle 2 taxes. Is anyone usi...

Advice on buyer wanting to back out

Hey everyone, Long time since I've used the boards but I'm hoping for some advice. This morning, I had a zero-feedback buyer in South Korea purchase 3 items and send an immediate paypal payment ($30 + shipping). The buyer just emailed and seems to be...

eBay.ca vs eBay.com for listing

I have been selling on eBay for over 11 years now. I have always listed on eBay.com except for occasionally when there is a listing sale on the eBay.ca site. However, I am finding it harder and harder to keep track of Canada Post shipping prices and ...

No More FREE Auctiva!!!

This announcement by Auctiva yesterday is sure to get alot of sellers attention (including mine!!!) X-( http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y09/m05/i28/s01 Thanks to Surplusdealdude for providing this info to us in another thread. I figured it was si...

Finding a good Bank in the good ol' USA

Anyone out there who could recommend a good Bank in the US One that has low fees, etc. Paypal did a number on my sister the other day. I usually transfer my US money into my sister's paypal account because she has a US bank and everything goes well, ...

Have a Great Summer!

Hi Everyone, I was gone for 5 - 6 weeks between March and April...to Ottawa then down to Virginia Beach and then back to Ottawa. All of my daughters and granddaughters traveled with me to visit my Dad who was quite ill. While we were there he passed ...

ebay Money order and other restrictions

I was going to modify my listing for the reason in the title of this post but I do not want to end my GTC listings just for this change because If I end those I will lose ranking in search engines for those listing. I contacted ebay and they said sor...

PayPal Monthly Statement

Hi All, Try as I might, I can not find where the magic button is any longer to print a monthly PayPal statement. I used to be able to do it, but can't find where they hid the button. Or buttons I need new glasses yet again! If a kind soul could gentl...

Switching from Auctiva to Vendio

I have done some research into image hosting and listing application companies, and have settled on Vendio. Here is what they are offering (copied and pasted from their site): The Vendio Platform FREE for the rest of 2009 and only $10/month for 2010....

rodney@ebay.com - Paperless Payments chat - 11-noon EDT Apr 15, 2009

Earlier today, we announced plans to implement a Paperless Payments policy for eBay Canada. As most of you are likely aware, a very similar safe electronic payments policy was implemented for our US site last year. On April 15, we'll be here from 11a...

New policies in two weeks....

With all the talk about the new policies soon to be in effect (mid June), I was wondering how many of you are ready? They talk of a limited grace period after mid June, but personally, I'd rather be ahead of the game, as redoing listings is so time c...

An Auctiva alternative - Supreme Auctions

Cautionary note - Supreme Auctions is out of Germany - their software has, in the past, been known to have problems ( so I've been told - never used it myself) But it might be worth looking at, I was impressed by the design the last time I looked at ...

accounting assistant !!!!!!!!!!! anyone useing ?

Useing Online version ... It stopped working for me back on april 28th !! Anyone else having this issue . I got like 10000 entry's to imput :S

Canada Post - Light Packet AIR

Hi All, It seems that Canada Post's website is not available right now...perhaps this is regular maintenance time. My question is this since I can't look there at this time....are we able to purchase Light Packet Air labels from the CP website? I kno...

BBL - Possible glitch?

Anyone ever come across the following? Tried to buy from a competitor and got the "blocked" message. As this fellow is a good customer of ours, I emailed a "huh!". His first response was that he would never block us. His second response an hour later...

New page view?

Whilst perusing listings being logged into .com I clicked on one of our listings and the look was totally different, replete with the following message: Attention Seller: This is the new listing page. If you see any technical issues, please send us a...

Non Performing Seller

Recently I purchased from a seller who defrauded me. I know the ropes and was able to get my refund; however, after negging the seller I've gotten a FLOOD of emails from other victims. Victims past their filing date who didn't pay via credit card. I ...

Listing Fee Credit From Relist - Which One - 1st or 2nd ?

This board seems to be so quiet lately ... Normally I use-up unsold listings for second relist and it amounts to approx $20 credit on monthly invoice. From recent promo I have hundreeds of unsold listings. I did not list anything since promo, odd day...

Stimulating sales during vacation

Soon I am going to put my store into vacation mode but do not want to loose sales so motivate customers to buy I am planning to create a sale starting from 24% off on Wednesday dropping by 2% every day ending at 8%. Decreasing is to create an impulse...

Autoatic eBay Seller Email - How to turn it off ?

How did this get turn on? I don't remember following around with any settings lately and yet from about a month or two ago eBay started sending newsletter on my behalf automatically. Did not bother me that much till today, when my newest items are th...

Free shipping - Extra discount for PS

Since we already got notified of changes to be implemented in Mid June, am I to assume the extra PS discount for free shipping will expire at end of June? Or do you think they will just make a separate announcement? What is the consensus? Or did I mi...

New Listing format and "missing" other items from seller

This may save you a call to the support folks, assuming the answer I got is correct of course! I use the "Find more items from the same seller" stuff quite a lot. I've noticed that this is missing now on the new style listing format. It is supposed t...

eBay 5c sale

I have had listing marathon and went crazy. Approx 550 listings, many repeats. How did you do? The last listing I posted was showing 0.05 all time but invoice now shows 0.35 because the time of posting is few seconds after sale end. 20-May-09 03:00:0...

May 19th 5Cent Sale Question

Hi All, I have a question about the 5 Cent sale that is going on today. Does it include Fixed Price 30 listings? From the information provided it appears that it does but I was wondering if my assumption is correct? Thanks