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eBay news of the week...

Latto Claps Back at Internet 'Panty Police' by Listing Her Underwear on eBay – Amassing Nearly 100k Bidhttps://people.com/style/latto-claps-back-at-style-troll-by-listing-underwear-on-ebay/ There Is an Abundance of NSFW Box Art on eBay For Your Disc ...

eBay making the news...

Managers Are Already Trying to Bust eBay's First Union, Organizers Say Workers at the company’s subsidiary TCGPlayer claim management is unlawfully surveilling union activity... https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axz4g/managers-are-already-trying-to-bu...

Including a business card for non-eBay services

I sell model trains (I know, you'd never guess from my name) but I also service certain vintage model trains, including re-magnetising the motor magnet. This servicing is obviously something I can't possibly offer through eBay, so, is it considered a...

Canadian Credit Card Class Action Lawsuit

I saw an ad for this on TV today. Apparently there's a class action lawsuit in Canada against the banks and credit card companies who engaged in poor practices betwen March and September of last year. For small sellers, you can apparently claim $30 w...

wishing a joyous new year and painfree entrance into 2023 to one and all sellers

may your selling get easier in the new year and may you get higher profits than the ones we got in 2022 and keep up the good work posting to this forum as its the best thing i read in the ebay empire

Favorite Album Covers (To Love or Hate)

We all love music (or hate it) but do any stop and say to yourself "Hey, that's a really good album cover" or "This album cover stinks like yesterday's diaper." Here's one of my favourites, the album Passengers by the group Beau Dommage.

''Canada post worker keeps 500 packages''

If you lost lettermail packages recently moving to/from/into alberta, they just found out a worker was heavily stealing packagesThey say ''all packages'' have been returned but untracked they just can't knowhttps://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mail-theft-char...

Resolved! 25 years

Wow, been "doin' that" for just over 25 years. been interesting to say the least

I dreamt that "Once Upon A Time Ebay Showed Everyone's Listings, Equally...At No Extra Charge..."

Then I woke up... My very 1st listing. No white background, No "sell similar" rigaramarole, no "item horrifics", no "pay to play". THOSE were the days!

eBay Will No Longer Tolerate Off Topic Discussion Posts ~ eBay Soapbox

Posted on ecommercebytes Nov 8, 2022. Something to ponderhttps://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2022/11/1667918175.htmleBay Will No Longer Tolerate Off Topic Discussion Posts. Mentions by invite only to forum.According to the announcement ...

Canada Post eliminating denomination stamps?

My local Post Office in Northwestern Ontario says Canada Post is no longer printing demonination stamps.Any truth to this and how does one go forward? I use these to make $3.19 and $4.44 postage which happens fairly regular..They suggest lining up th...

A message from Adam Ireland, VP and GM, (((((eBay US)))))

Recent announcement on dot com directed at the US marketplace. As far as I can find this was never posted on ca.https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/A-message-from-Adam-Ireland-VP-and-GM-eBay-US/ba-p/33305147Of note the following:Which brings ...

Best supplier of small rigid mailers?

Hi-I have recently started to sell on ebay and am looking for a consistent, reliable, and best value for cost supplier of small rigid carboard mailers. I would have to purchase online and have them delivered by mail. Amazon does not seem to have any ...

USA Thanks giving nightmare coming soon

Just a reminder if you are selling on E-BAY and you want to do some black friday promos. Please remember that Millions of others will be doing the same. In which the world wide shipping system will come to a slow time in Transit. Ebay really dose not...

Justice Served- Former Ebay Exec gets 4+ years in prison for stalking

Remember Ina from ecommerce bytes? And how a group of Ebay execs (now former execs) harrassed her for her online comments about ebay? Bloody masks, pig fetuses, other terrorizing efforts. Back in 2019 iirc.Well, James Baugh, 45, of San Jose, Calif., ...

eBay Search and the new normal

For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/technology/gen-z-tiktok-search-engine.html Excerpt below. Please note the attached NYTimes story was confirmed using Google. "While Google remains the world’s dominant sear...

What Was Your Favorite Toy as a Child (or a big Kid) ?

I am one of these folks that don't have memories of my childhood before 10 or 11 years old. They just aren't there. Most of what I know I have been told Still had lots of toys. watching old home movies of Christmas the Christmas Tree was surrounded b...

Not as exciting as "Jesus on toast"...

...But while looking on eBay for nothing really this came up 373148994936not the trinity, but a trinity none the less! And, it comes with GPS shipping of only US $20.99 (approx. C $27.81) International Priority Shipping to Canada to ship 3 little dri...

Winnipeg mailbox robbed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bead-n-butter-stolen-earrings-1.6549219?fbclid=IwAR0Z_KlLXAwzSxouxBDOPXzoNYJ5UtZFYY_pWUBOiyt-SHknwGGfSRnm9hU "While Pruden has insurance for her parcels, it only covers up to $100, and many of her pieces cost m...

Ebay electronics resellers cry foul on new ‘refurbished’ rules

A new policy hidden behind an NDA could create rigid tiers of 'refurbished' and 'used' sellers on Ebay. https://www.pcworld.com/article/828603/ebay-resellers-cry-foul-on-refurbished-rules.html

Holiday home scam warning after man 'buys' Bulgarian house on eBay

A man lost thousands of pounds due to a scam on eBay advertising a Bulgarian holiday home for sale. The father-of-four revealed how he was duped into buying what he believed was a three-bedroom house in the the village of Dolna Lipnitsa, in the north...

Quebec moving into Basic Income format...

Finally, common sense is moving through the system, this is a vast improvement over the current and nonfunctioning "Mean(s)-Tested" outdated 20th C System. I have been a vocal supporter of Basic Incomes for years, this is the first actual step in the...

Is Borrowing Money Against Trading Card Collections the Next Move For eBay?

Store it in the Vault & we will act like a "pawn" shop... This week has seen an interesting development in the trading card space which begs the question, are we going to see eBay follow suit and offer a similar service. As you can tell by the title,...

Managed Payments in the UK - News

While not here in Canada or the US, well not yet? https://www.eseller365.com/ebay-uk-updates-payments-terms-16-april-2022/#:~:text=eBay%20UK%20is%20updating%20the,services%20they%20provide%20to%20sellers. It's always good to read what eBay is concoct...

Tax on Bullion, well at least we are not in the UK on eBay...

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/comments/2022/7/1658149018.html UK sellers say eBay removed all of their listings over a VAT compliance issue they blame on the company, which had previously told them a notice of noncompliance was a gli...

CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ceo-arrested-for-selling-1-billion-in-fake-cisco-hardware-on-amazon-ebay A Miami-based CEO has been arrested for allegedly importing $1 billion worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment from China and then selling it on Amazon a...

eBay Australia - eBay Plus program

https://www.eseller365.com/ebay-australia-expands-ebay-plus-eligibility/ eBay Australia has made a change to its eBay Plus program that will now allow non–returnable products to be eligible for the coveted eBay Plus badge.eBay Plus is eBay Australia’...

Wondering if anyone is using Fedex for shipping and how its working out

I have a package to ship to the US and wondering how Fedex is working out for anyone else. Have not used them yet and just want to make sure there's no surprise.Price to ship through Canada Post is $43.75 and to ship through Fedex its $24.15. A $20.0...

For anyone having sign in issues

According to the dot ca status page there are presently issues for signing in. eBay is working on resolving the problem. For anyone who is having this problem wouldn't that error message ummm be redundant or difficult to spot if you are unable to sig...

It is user to user help afterall

Look up the world economic forum, see what our world is transforming into, their global leaders program has their minions in all our government bodies. Those people gotta go and soon or we be **bleep**ed. Now isn't that nice or them to let us know we...