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varage sale inquires on ebay offical looking forms but not in ebay system just regular emails

hello everyone -- i have something new thats happened to me last few days - getting inquiries from a site called " varage sale" from a couple of their sellers asking if i still had a product or would sell it for less etc they just ask questions the s...

Customer Claims there is "Sales Tax" on Potential Purchase?

I just recently reduces an item yet again to try to list a competative price on Ebay and I've about had it. I dont think its viable to maintain selling here if Ebay keeps up these greedy tactics. I remember an Ebay back in the day where the fee to se...

Sales not taking product out of inventory ?

I've had a couple of sales, during these slow summer days, but have noticed for 2 of them, that the item (when I accepted an offer) did not get taken out of my active list? One item was being watched by 2 people, which kind of made me wonder what wou...

Ship Times & Sales - any co-relation?

Our most recent buyer requested that their purchase be posted in two weeks to co-incide with their return from vacation. - Of course!However, we have noticed, and it may be an illusion no study has been done, that our sales fluctuate with our shippin...

Unable to send a combined invoice

Hi-I have been trying to send a combined invoice for a couple of days but the invoice does not go through. When I push send the screen gets a greyish fininsh and when I scroll back up to the top of the invoice page I get a red banner with Something w...

Interesting eBay tidbits from Value Added Resource

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-q2-2022-earnings-commentary/ https://www.valueaddedresource.net/has-ebay-removed-extra-free-listings-for-stores/ https://www.valueaddedresource.net/sellers-report-ebay-listings-disappearing/ https://www.valuead...

Handling Time

It is now possible to up your handling time from 30 to 40 days. Was spotted recently by dot com sellers. As per Velvet it is intended for presale items. Official policy update to follow.... https://community.ebay.com/t5/Shipping/40-days-now-showing-o...

Sellers shipping by CP to USA from W. Canada Aug 2022

Just an FYI for any sellers shipping to the USA. See attached. Operational Update: Effective March 18, 2022 all US bound items originating from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba will be temporarily transferred to Los Angeles rathe...

NEW IMPORTANT BUG - FALSE LATE DELIVERY

Hello, I recently get late delivery defects for items which were delivered ahead of schedule. Here is an example: The item was shipped by "Economy Shipping from Canada / 5-12 business days". The item was paid on Sunday, shipped on Monday, delivered o...

eBay Canada collecting Canadian Sales Tax as of July 1, 2022

For anyone that doesn't regularly get eBay emails and this applies to: Associated link below: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/gst-hst-businesses/digital-economy-gsthst/notification-information-reporting.html -Lo...

What happens when/if ebay does not collect the tax

Okay....Sold a item, and now have a question that involves ebay new policy to collect taxes on sales .Sent invoice for used camera buyer paid BUT there is no tax been collected. Any one have an idea of who is responsible for the sales tax, if ebay do...

Identical fix-price listing on multiple Ebay sites questions

Ebay allows to post the identical same fix-price listing to different Ebay sites as long as the ship-to countries are set so they don't overlap each other. What I am not clear is how does it look on the buyer's end and how do I manage the orders. Let...

Sign in

What is it with eBay that we have to sign in like 20 times a day?? Can it stay open for 24 hours? I usually check eBay and then go to kitchen to make soup or bake cake, cookies and back to eBay and forth all day.

hmm, so Gas Prices are Down, so the CP Fuel Surchange Will Be Down to, Right???????????

Theft

So how many of you have had items stolen? And what did you do about it? And how supportive was ebay during the process?

A buyer refunded my purchase and didn’t cooperate with the return so now eBay is screwing me

I tried to send a return label to the buyer but I didn’t have a return address and they didn’t send me their address and I couldn’t find it in my email so now eBay is taking $250 out of my bank account and refuses to send me my product back

Canadian Seller registered on .com. Can I select CAD for managed payment list on .ca?

I registed on ebay.com before .ca even existed. Does that mean that by default my default currency for managed payments is USD? If I want to select CAD as my currency for managed payments does that mean that I need to create a new account or is there...

RE: German Packaging Act circumvention by German customers via parcel forwarding services?

A question for the ebay help / legal team and/or anyone else in the know - personally I'll be shutting down all sales into the German market to comply with the act, but this did cross my mind as many folks around the world do this now, and even some ...

USPS Hazardous Materials Requirements in Effect Now

An FYI that for anyone that sells items containing pre-owned, damaged, or defective electronic devices with lithium batteries and either ships with CP to USA or via a forwarder. Announcement on dot com July 13, 2022: (Full announcement below. Please ...

Extending time away beyond 30 days is easy.

I've had occaision to have to temporarily close my store and was able to re-open today. As a test, it has been postulated before but I wanted to confirm, what happens if one needs to have a time away longer than the 30 day limit. Today I ended time a...

Does eBay notify buyers when I accept their offer, and does it remind them to pay?

I sure hope so, because I accepted an offer recently and thought nothing of it. I did not send an invoice, because I believe eBay notifies them their offer was accepted, and the link to pay is given to them there. Days passed, but I did not send any ...

Complete Canada Post Website Shutdown July 23rd 8:45 pm to July 24th 7 am

Scheduled maintenance shutdown, per chitchats notification. "Our partner carrier Canada Post has alerted us that their website will be unavailable from Sat, Jul 23 beginning at 8:45 pm until Sun, Jul 24 at 7 am ET.As a result of the scheduled mainten...

cancellations / refund requests within minutes of purchase, with no explanation/message/apology?

I have been noticing the last several months an emergent trend: people buying items, usually new customers, then within five minutes requesting cancellation of the purchase and a refund - no message, explanation or oops, sorry, this or that was the r...

Re: Leaving feedback about a buyer

I'm not quite understanding the idea of leaving feedback about a buyer right after the item has been mailed but before it could have been recived. Not too much I could say other than the funds went through. Something I'm missing about this proceedure...

Canadian SIN number now being demanded by managed payments team? is this no longer optional?

Hi, Hopefully I can get some help / traction here. I was forced to sign up on the first of Jan 1 2021 to the MP program, via a very threatening time sensitive email. It did not disclose any additional personal information being required of me, so ext...

Managed Payments $US account - which bank?

For those sellers who have decided to get their payouts in $US, which bank are you using and have you already set it up with MP? There doesn't seem to be a lot of choices for $US chequing accounts and they all seem to have some sort of fee.