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Shipping to a Chinese character address

Had a nice sale to China today, but I wanted to track it, rather than ship untracked via LetterPost as usual.Was horrified by cost, naturally.Normally I would add most of the postage as stamps purchased at a discount, but the buyer's address was in C...

Useless factoid about credit card merchant account fees.

I was in my favourite coffee shop* today and asked the owner how much he paid in credit card fees.His answer, 2.9%, surprised me.First because his average sale would be between $4 and $10, since he only sells beverages and pastry.And second because t...

List Item

Ok I posted my first listing, Now what? It does not tell me it was posted ?

It pays to ship to PO Boxes & APO

It's really interesting that I've had some good sales to users who have PO Boxes or to US users who are currently deployed, and in fact, in some cases I think it's my willingness to ship without restriction in the US that has actually gotten me some ...

Resolved! Trying to pay for buyers return. Ebay help phone was an disappointing experience.

Hi, I have had a buyer message to say they were unhappy with a purchase. They explained why and I politely pointed out that all those issues are all explicitly explained in the condition. But in order to make the customer happy I thought I would just...

usa sales tax ???????????????

eBay needs to inform potential buyers that they are going to have to pay sales tax, on top of their order price prior to them using buy it now or best offer, because i am seeing a lot of people not wishing to pay when they see the tax added to their ...

Paypal Says I Owe Money For Underpaid Postage

Just got a mesaage from Paypal saying I owe money for underpaid postage. That is the first one I have ever received. I checked if there was ever a problem with this on this discussion forum. Looks like this was happpening quite a bit back in 2017. An...

Resolved! Would someone please check tracked packet rate

I need to send a light package to Australia by tracked packet rate. On the chart that zee-chan kindly gave the International tracked packet rate is from 23.98-27.24, but when I put the stats into the Canada Post site, the rate comes up as $37.45. It ...

Buyer addresses/info

I think it would be very helpful if the ui for inputting shipping addresses on the buyer's side would auto-correct for formatting and checking for legitimate addresses. Also it should be required to input an email address and phone number as phone nu...

Is Interac e-transfer a valid form of payment?

I've been using standard PayPal for my sales. A potential buyer has asked me to accept an interac e-transfer. It seems like a reasonable thing to do so I poked through my account settings and was not able to find how to set it up. Is this a valid for...

On sold items, is there any way to see buyer's shipping, vs shipping I would have paid?

Apologies for the mouthful in the title, so let me clarify. I'm trying to find the total, shipping inclusive prices people are willing to pay for things, but whenever I browse sold goods to get a feel for prices, it seems like it's always displaying ...

Resolved! Shipping dvd season in Canada

Hello wondering how folks ship a dvd season in canada as in bigger than normal dvd, maybe if its laid out flat does that help? Any advice still learning and realizing may not be worth to ship dvds

Item number changed? Things that make you go hmmmm...

I believe this is the 2nd time this has happened, I'm mentioning here incase anyone else experiences it. It is most concerning to me if it is happening because I use the item number as my filing system. If the number changes, it won't be findable by ...

Ebay site says i cannot sell at this point as their site is down

This has been going on for months now and I cannot seem to resolve the issue. Ebay continues to state that the site is down which does not allow me to Sell. What is the resolution for this as I know a number of folks have had the same issue. I am usi...

Resolved! Where is the link?

What is the link called where is shows if a bidder from a blocked country has tried to purchase? I lost several bookmarks in the change to Windows 10. I have sometimes found a US buyer is blocked when they should not have been, so I can then allow it...

GTC - Good Til Canceled - another rip off?

I'm totally against the Good til cancelled procedure BEING FORCED ON MEtried to list an item a couple of days ago on ebay.com - didn't give me a choice - and that REALLY ticked me off.If I don't sell it within 30 days, I want to take it off the marke...

How to avoid PayPal US$ to CAD$ convertion fees?

Hey guys! So most of my sales are in US$ and I'm a Canadian seller. I opened a US$ bank account at RBC thinking I could transfer my US$ from PayPal to this account and avoid the currency exchange rate. It appears even with a US$ bank account and tran...

Resolved! Listed item as local pickup ONLY, and winner wants me to ship it.

In my listing I stated that "shipping is NOT available for this item. It is for local pickup only". And, of course, the auction ends and the buyer wants me to ship it to him. For a variety of reasons I cannot ship the item, which is why I listed it a...

Resolved! sold items (10 day auction) not appearing as sold, therefore cannot get paid.

I just sold 4 items tonight. All were 10 day auctions. Whenever I have sold an item in the past 15 years, it always went straight to my SOLD list. This is the first time I have seen this happen, all 4 are now ended and in my UNSOLD list and appear wi...

Dropping parcels in post boxes

I have read on Canada Post's website, as well as these very boards, that you are able to drop your parcels into the big red post boxes instead of taking them to the post office (provided they fit, of course). I take all my outgoing parcels to the pos...

How can PayPal accept an e-mail as part of the address?

So I sold an item to a buyer in Nanaimo B.C. yesterday. But instead of putting a street number & a street name they put in their e-mail address. How can PayPal accept an e-mail as part of the address? They need to be more thorough in checking that ad...

Canada Seller, Ships from Canada, List as US Seller?

I was not sure how to title this. I am a Seller in Canada. I ship everything from here. List on Ebay.ca, because Ebay reps told me my items show on .Com & .Ca. I was paying the Ebay.com store price for a while cause I accidently signed up there, but ...

"Volume discount" sale, how do buyers know what items are on sale?

I just started a "volume discount" sale on 500 items (the max).NOTE this is on .COM I can see when a buyer goes into a multi item listing it tells them the various volume discounts (which will never work because they won't want to buy multiples of th...

PayPal packing slip

I have recently noticed that when I print out the Paypal packing slip that there is unnecessary information now being printed at the top and bottom. The top has the information that is usually at the top of Paypal pages, et. My Account Summary, Activ...

Wow where have the 500 or 1000 Free Listings Promotions gone to

I have not seen a 500 or 1000 Free listing promotion offer in ages. It use to help abit having that extra few large listings promotions I guess times are hard on Ebay to offer these Promotions on regular basis as they once did.

US State Tax Paid by Foreign Buyers is a “Windfall” for American States and eBay!

In eBay's October & November, 2019 announcement eBay.ca said:"Please note the applicable tax will continue to be paid by the US buyer and as a Canadian seller, you do not need to take any action." If that is the case, why did a Japanese buyer have to...

The RIGHT way to ship items

Just thought I would drop a little note here in case there are newbies to eBay who have questions on shipping items. We run a facebook group for resellers and I often see people asking how they should pack items - from mugs to posters to shoes to chi...

My rant for what it is worth.

You know the old story of the person banging their head against a brick wall and being asked, "why do you do it?" The reply being, "because it feels so good when you stop." That is exactly how I feel about my recent dealing with the automatons at eBa...

Shopping cart in store?

Hello, this is my first post, I beg patience if I don’t word this exactly right. I used to have a store, years ago, but have recently opened another to help a family member liquidate her mother in law’s estate. Anyway, I have had two US buyers buy mu...

Delivery Delay on a Batch of Packages Due to Weather- Can Seller Shipping Defects Be Removed?

I recently sent a large batch of packages with ChitChats from Vancouver to Ontario (4 to Toronto area , 1 to Ottawa area). All had a Canada Post Regular Post delivery timeframes indicated (4-7 business days). We had a snowfall last week so it delayed...