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PayPal / Canada Post On-Line Shipping Partnership

The following is an excerpt from an e-mail received today from PayPal. I'm assuming all of you have already or will see it today. Does anyone know how to link the two platforms? They say we can do it from within PayPal but I didn't see anything to en...

Updates to chat/site issues from last fall - please look at last post on chat from April 7

Qottie has posted a lot of updates, concerns, and questions on page 2 of last Wednesdays chat. Could all posters please read his post and if they originated any of these (I know some were from a year before that) could they please reply to Qottie wit...

Buyers who give excuses why they can't pay etc.

So I had a buyer who used BIN on a laptop. They asked a bunch of questions after they bought (but not paid). Hadn't heard back for quite a few days, I was busy anyways. I sent a polite reminder regarding paying for the laptop. Still nothing. eBay aut...

I was doing some research and I came across this....

I was doing some CD research and I came across this website for ebay items and I am listed. An interesting website. Hey whatever sells my stuff, it's all good with me. This is only one of many tools.

Canadian mail issues, items not rceived, sad state of affairs - US boards

Apparently according to the .com boards, many sellers are cutting off Canada for too many items not received. Maybe Ebay Canada can get some stats for us http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Multiple-buyers-in-Canada-are-claiming-to-never-receive-ite...

eBay Buyer Fraud on the WEB

Just another variation on a theme https://tamebay.com/2017/05/ebay-under-fire-again-in-media-regarding-buyer-fraud.html

No sales for a day and then 3 in a matter of 1/2 hour.

Ebay turned on my lights and I got three sales in a little over a half hour, just seems weird. I'll go 24 hours or sometimes a couple of days with no sales and then bang, 3 sales in a row.

What would you do regarding address, would you mail as is?

I have a new buyer in France who provided his address. As a check I usually google their address and on more than one occasion the buyer has left off his/her apartment number off. The person lives in an apartment building and did not provide his apar...

FYI MIA Paypal payment emails are back again...for me at least...

Since last night at about 11 EST I've not been getting any paypal payment emails. The payments are paid, and show as paid in both ebay and by logging into PAYPAL itself, just no emails. This happens fairly regularly delay is pretty long compared to n...

I listed several items yesterday, not showing in search

I listed several things yesterday, some had immediate views and watchers, they show in "distance nearest". Great.. Others do not show in "distance nearest" and no views. These are popular items, with many other similar listing. One is doll parts, the...

How much would you pay to ship this package?

Quick background: I pay ~10,000$ in shipping fees all through eBay-PayPal and using Canada Post per year. I'm wondering if I'm getting good prices. For example, how much would it cost you to ship the following package: From: G6Y 0J9To: M2P 1V4 Weight...

List in CDN decision must be stopped!

For as long as I have been an eBay member, eBay has always recommended listing in USD to attract more customers. And they have been right on this. Correct. As in not off their rocker when they make this suggestion. And it is true. This is good advice...

My laugh for the day

I was writing the listing for a book of patterns for Disney's Pooh bear characters, when I noticed that my spellcheck has changed "Tigger" and "Eyeore", or Trigger and Eyesore!

Promoted listings and words of caution from US Boards - You will pay for unpaid items

Apparently, if you use promoted listings and the order is unpaid or cancelled, you will still be responsible for the promoted listing charges according to a poster on the US Boards http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Promoted-listing-fee-UNFAIR-for-...

Store Owners - how often do you have a sale?

Using markdown manager how often do you put items on sale? Do you put everything on? certain things? What percentage do you use? It seems I have been having a sale every month for a week. I get some sales but get sales without it too, I haven't reall...

canada post confirmation of receipt <-- satisfies Paypal?

Shipping internationally with small packages, it is hard to track for a reasonable fee. Does anyone know if Canada Post's confirmation of receipt would satisfy paypal in a dispute?

Redoing all my shipping to include international on some items and not on others

I am redoing all my shipping for the first time in years and have a question with US and worldwide. I am shipping some things internationally to possibly increase sales. I have set up shipping for Can, US, and worldwide. Ir now shows US under the US ...

Resolved! A question about how PAYPAL refunds are applied...

I got asked this by a buyer earlier this week and I did not know the answer. If a buyer pays for something with PAYPAL via a credit card and I subsequently refund them, does the refund go into their general PAYPAL account, or does it get automagicall...

Resend Invoice option unavailable on multiple purchases?

Hi...So I sent an invoice out on a multiple purchase with an error in it. When I went to resend the invoice, the option was not there in the drop-down menu. The only option that was there was 'Uncombine Invoice'....? What happened to the 'Resend invo...

Resolved! 'Best Offer' Deal Sheet is messed up tonight

Head's up to sellers who may accept Best Offers on their listings. The number of BO has been increased now to between five to 10 Offers depending on your Category BUT there is a glitch that doesn't actually allow you to Accept or Counter any of those...

Make Offer

I noticed there is a change in Make Offer. Many of my items include Make Offer button and when 2 buyers make offers, there is no options for me to accept it or to counteroffer, only to decline them. I sold lots of items through Make Offer, very few d...

Trying to sort out combined shipping if you list on .ca and .com

This is what I was told on chat: I list on .com in US and on .ca in Can. I want to set up discounts for US items in $US on .com and I want to set up totally different discounts for Can items in Can $ on .ca. They are different products and the discou...

Anybody shipping to Australia light or small packet?

Good Morning, last year I had over 5 packages over November and December (different dates, different PO's) sent to Australia that were taking about 2 months to get there. They all arrived but all late. Australia was having some serious problem with t...

Resolved! Question about declared value on international shipments with free shipping

Hi, Small question about declared value on international shipments to the US being sold with ' free shipping ' .I have free shipping on almost all of my items and i add the shipping cost onto the item the sale price.I was wondering, if i sell somethi...

'eBay Deletes Seller Listings in Brash Move'

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2017/5/1496088624.html eBay Deletes Seller Listings in Brash Move eBay is supposed to be a venue only, bringing buyers and sellers together. But eBay has increasingly gotten hands-on and now it can del...

Today's chat and opinions

Am I losing it or were a lot of questions in today's chat sort of never really answered?

canadapost price increase?

did canada post recently up their price for shipping parcels or something?..i can't see anything on their website, but notice many video games are now up around $15 shipping (when they used to be around $5) i already stopped buying from US sellers a ...

Question about Store Types

I have a Premium Store and my subscription ends today. I'm thinking of downgrading to a Basic store and subscribing for the year. Does anyone know how it works if I decide to upgrade back to a Premium store in a month or two? I think what I'd like is...

Using Automated Discount Rules? Be aware of this critical issue.

Some may recall I've been making a nuisance of myself harping for months about "Request Total" not working, initially with Raphael (one of the eBay Canada reps, who left in December, 2016). For the past few days, I've been corresponding back and fort...

All finished...for sure this time ;)

Officially closed for good this time. Store subscription is ended. All listings are ended. Will be liquidating all stock through various other ways now. Sometimes in life you really need to think hard about what makes you happy and what takes away fr...