Seller Central

Again, eBay demonstrates their contempt for us.

eBay's boundless greed manifests itself again, blatantly showing a lack of concern for Canadians, and their rights. eBay, the fine folks behind the gouging of Canadians on a scale only rivaled by our own government, via the GSP and other fundamentall...

Using fellow eBayers pictures (scans)

HI I was wondering can fellow sellers use my scans (pictures) for there use for selling there item that is the same item I am trying to sell

Old seller but it's a different eBay now.ca &.com. What's the most important things I should know ?

I am an old seller but I haven't sold in a long time. If I'm trying to begin again, what are the most important factors regarding payments, shipping, final value fees? Are we allowed to talk about amazon on here at all? Just in small comparison, you ...

New eBay store final value fees on already created listings

Hello, was wondering if someone could let me know if when you subscribe to having an eBay store that the final value fee discount will be applied to already created listings? Or would it only apply to newly created listings after I subscribed?Also, I...

EBay seller payment options

I have been selling items on EBay for 20 years periodically. I have noticed PayPal has been more unpredictable and I have heard that although PayPal has been linked and possibly owned by EBay, there are different ways to receive payments from buyers ...

Input requested: Community Board Streamline

Hi everyone - it's me! Your recently-absentee Community representative. I'm here to share a bit more about the project that has pulled me away for the last while. Sneak peek here. As part of that, I wanted to get your input on a restructure of the bo...

International Shipping

I really hope one day eBay will alow you to separate U.S. from everywhere else in the world for Flate Rate and Custom. I like to offer Free Shipping to the U.S. but once you Free Shipping in the U.S. then you must put a price for the rest of the worl...

Is Snap Ship down for you all?

As titled. It wouldn't let me login and kept looping back to login screen! Tried both Chrome and Firefox =( Also tried to use shippo and it's giving me a "Couldn't buy label. Only the following characters are accepted in Phone Number: ( ) - . p x, an...

Feedback on shipping to Indonesia appreciated

If anyone has any feedback on shipping to Indonesia during these Covid times I would appreciate hearing it. I have some nice china pieces up right now and I had a query about shipping to Indonesia. If I did it, it would be tracked shipping only. Cana...

Resolved! where my buy it now?

I put a buy it now price for my listing but when I look at my listing, theres no buy it now, only bid, someone also messaged me telling me they cant use buy it now, whats going on?

Multiple payments in one transaction with Paypal micropayments account

Hi I have a question I can't seem to find the answer to through Google so I came here. I have a Paypal micropayments account that I use regularly and am familiar with. I intend to list multiple hockey cards each with a price of $5 or less under the m...

Selling and buying sports cards on Ebay.ca or Ebay.com which is better...

Selling and buying sports cards on Ebay.ca or Ebay.com which is better, I have been selling sports cards for a few months on Ebay .ca only cause I live in the Toronto area , but I am not getting the volume from buyers as I think I should ...I have 32...

Has anyone gone past their Managed Payment Sign-up deadline?

I keep getting messages from ebay that i must sign up by Feb 23rd. Of course, i don't want to.I've read reports that you can go past your "deadline" and can still sell, receive payments, make purchases, but you just can't create/modify any listings.C...

How to get a personalized e-mail address and ~ how much does it cost year?

Hey guys! So I've been doing business with a @hotmail.com e-mail address for the past 8 years and never bothered to get a new one for my business. Now I'm strongly considering getting something more professional with my business name (@vipmp.com). Do...

Resolved! Did anyone else get this message from eBay

We'd like to know more about your recent buying experiences. Could you take a 4 minute survey for us? Your responses will help us make eBay a better place to buy.

Claims with Canada Post for Undelivered Items

Pretty sure I am not able to claim anything, but I've had some parcels apparently not arrive with some US eBay buyers. Parcels were shipped as Small Packet - Air (no tracking...). So, if an item doesn't arrive in the timeframe it should, buyers want ...

Anyone else having trouble with the new lettermail rates?

So among other things, I tried to send a standard envelope (below 30 g, containing Pokemon cards) today. I had 90 cents worth of stamps on it, using old stamps I'd bought from here on Ebay. But the manager of the Sobeys post office I usually go to in...

HELP from all sellers! My account is being bombarded with Best Offer "Auto-Updates"!

tyler@ebay please help!In the past week, ebay has "auto-updated" 30 of my listings with "Best Offer", on 3 separate occasions (Jan 23th, 26th, 27th) at 4am, and sent an email telling me which ones they've updated. So far, they seem to be only new lis...

Resolved! stamps on polymailers

Can stamps be placed on polymailers/polybags ?Can it be used to replace envelopes for letter mailing?

Scams with multiple purchases one transaction input needed

I've seen some sellers have claims made with multiple small price purchases with one buyer through feedback and on the odd forum thread. Does this occur a lot in your experiences ? Im considering using the stop buyer function to limit purchases withi...

EBAY CONTROL!

Hello, my name is eBay and if I don't like what you post on the community board I will create problems for you as a seller. People will be able to see your items, but will have great difficulty actually purchasing your items. You can call in, if you ...

Resolved! Transaction Defects

Do Transaction Defects ever expire? I have one on my account from ironically following bad advice on the forum relating to handling a buyer who paid for shipping but then arranged pickup in person. Anyway, I digress, but it's been on my account for m...

Can you help me get up to speed on shipping options and discounts right now.

I haven't been selling on here for a while now and want to start selling again, but I don't remember the stuff and all my old postings were gone so I can't use them for reference. I remember ebay used to have some kind of deals with CanadaPost so sel...

Resolved! Suspicious Email, buyer requesting refund

So I sold 3 items back in August 2020 to someone in Australia. I sent the items small packet air no tracking to australia to save on money which the buyer was fine about. 4 months later, the buyer messages me requesting a refund and says they haven't...

2 Different IDs with the same address. What could go right?

Hi, An item was sold today, and I searched the buyer's ID and address into my email inbox which I always do to avoid the scammers in the past. Then I've found more than a year old purchase with the same address. The address and the last name of the p...

Canada Post Small Business registration question

All I use ebay for is to sell my personal belongings as an individual, and I don't have a business name or registered officially or anything. If I put down a business name on Canadapost to register for the Small Business account and get the discounts...

.ca redirecting to .com on every search & unable to create a marketing sale. Whats Up eBay?

Resolved! Detailed Seller Ratings

As most sellers do, I try to keep my record 100% in all categories. I sell only a small number of items, and work with my buyers for the best of all. When I notice a notch in the Detailed Seller Ratings, under Reasonable Shipping Cost it upsets me. I...

You may want to check your Site Preferences to see if they are still correct

Just had an Australian buyer tell me she was unable to purchase one of my items even though I have always sold to Australia. I went and checked on my site preferences page (which seems different now) and found Australia was checked off as a place I d...

Managed payments - opt out?

A while ago I enrolled in: Managed Payments" it of course has not started yet. But after doing some research I would like to opt out. I don't see a way to do it. Anyone know it it can be done and how?