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What Canadian Sellers are up against when it comes to competing with US Sellers

Nov 1 eBay USA Announcement. https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/eBay-standard-envelope-supports-more-categories-effective/ba-p/34078417 Tracking for 1.00?!?! And from Shippo with UPS:-Lotz

How to calculate import fees and tax for selling and shipping an item to US buyers?

A buyer in the states wants to know how much of import fees and tax will be applied to the item they buy from me in canada. When ebay didn't charge taxes to every sales in canada, there were no import fees applied for the items sold by non profession...

Default shipping settings?

Does anyone know if it is possible to set the same shipping for listings as a default, so you don't have to do it each and every time?

Ebays Customer Service Lies

I went through a process with ebay on a seller not receiving an item. Now i had gone to the post office and secured a tracking number...but this means sweet fanny adams to ebay.. Told me i had sellers protection...a lie and now when it comes to pay w...

Customer reviews no longer showing in search for most sellers.

Has anyone else notices sudden dissapearance of stars in the search results? Customer reviews, hidden from front end search results. To see them the buyer has to scroll way down in the listing under feedback.

Is there a way for buyers to see discount shipping fees at their end for tracked parcels?

Slow sales. 4 in the last 3 months. Have had 3 of those sales since they introduced the discounted shipping rates on tracked parcels and its quite obvious buyers are not getting the discounted rates at their ends. Paying full shipping costs and then ...

Recent odd sales experience.

I sold 2 sports cards minutes after listing them with a auction start of $1.49,and a BIN of $2.00 and $8.00..got an email that a buyer bought them but at $1.49 each,not the BIN prices,and is asking for an invoice..I use the same template for all my c...

It was not possible to generate the label. Something is wrong. Please try SHIPPO Instead...

Mom always said, " If you don't have anything nice to sayafter months and months of polite suggestions, Just shop at Shippo". Thanks Mom!

Hmmm feedback date "order" is all scrambled at the moment..

Not sure if a change was imlemented or it's just a simple glitch. One's received feedback isn't in "date" order anymore. (on both .COM and .CA for me at least) devon@ebay FYI

Tracked Packet USA 1kg to 2kg Price

Did the eBay labels price of Tracked Packet USA 1kg to 2kg drop? I had it written down as around $19.70, but it looks like it's now $16.27 I'm not going crazy, right? Did I write it down wrong before, or did something change when the calendar rolled ...

International Buyer requests I lie on customs to save him the taxes, now won't pick up item.

I have an international buyer that over a couple of weeks acumulated a few sales that I was to combine shipping on and send via mail. Buyer was aware of taxes, Vat etc. due on the purchase as this was his second purchase and he had complained that he...

Reminder: Ship 1 package free every Tuesday in October with Canada Post

Every October, Canada Post offers one free shipping label every Tuesday if you use Snapship. You create the label as you normally would and enter a promo at checkout. The promo for today is OCT3. Every week the promo is usually formatted as OCT and t...

Sales Have Reached An All Time Low!

This is just me venting. Sales have reached an all time low. It has now been 3 weeks without a sale despite having over 1000 items listed. That has never happened to me before in all my 20+ years of selling on eBay . I have sent hundreds of offers to...

How many of you use promoted listings?

How many of you use promoted listings? 1) Do you do it for all listings?2) Only some, older ones or newer ones?3) Do you do it for rare items that only a couple are listed or use it for ones that are a needle in a haystack (hundreds of the same)?4) D...

I need your ideas on how to handle my 3 month vacation.

I will be going away for 3 months Jan 2 to beginning of April 6. I will have access to the internet while I away. I do not want to shut everything down as I may lose all my listings and it is a lot of work putting them back up. I have 3 accounts with...

SELLING COSTS

my selling costs as per the circle on my main page for selling is always at 26% to 27 % most months -- but as of this week it is dropped to 19 % -- for no apparent reason -- i have been in the boo box with ebay since oct 22 again no promo listing all...

Customer package never arrived, Canada Post made mistake. What can I do?

I sent off a CD to a customer in the Netherlands back in August. In mid September, the customer received notice the package would be delivered soon. The customer was given a tracking number from Dutch Post. The package never arrived. A look afterward...

Resolved! A new selling site/account

I have been selling radios on eBay for over twenty years. I want to sell other items on another account. Can I do that and if I can, will eBay treat me like a newbie and hold back purchases and the like?

missing listings entirely- need to check all my listing with physical items and listings to match

we all have had where bay relists on your store an item here and there that was sold -- then someone else buys two months latter and you have to cancel then order take the ding and move on -- it happens to me about 4/5 times a year -- so now i check ...

How to sell in US $ and receive payout in US$

Hi I have not sold on eBay in about 4 years, I want to sell again. How do I list in US$ and receive my payout In US $ I have a Royal Bank Georgia US accountthanks

Ebay scammers & bad buyers

Recently had a sale, $26 to a US customer. Checked his FB and in the last year buyer has 11 FB for not paying for item, also 6 FB from sellers for various forms of scamming, item not received, requesting to cancel the order after shipment, etc, etc.M...

Terapeak Now Has 3 Years of Data!

In case anyone else hasn't noticed yet, Terapeak now has an option to go back 3 years in the drop down box!

Pony boy toy cap gun

I have a vintage Pony Boy toy cap gun with a orange plug, the one who looks like those used in old western movies. It was made in the 1950s-1960s and used those red cap tape. I was wondering if it was legal to sell this in Canada or export to USA?

Resolved! Sale cancelled by eBay, Buyer No longer Registered. Item sitting in "awaiting shipment"

eBay cancelled a sale for safety reasons and de-registered the buyer - no problem with that. I got a message telling me that and to not ship, and that I can relist. What is odd is that my listing has been totally deleted so I can't relist or sell sim...

Best and Cheapest way to ship trading card from Canada to the USA

Hi! I'm looking for some help on the best and cheapest way to ship trading cards to the United States from Canada. I've read similar posts from the last few years and still had some questions. I'm from in Montreal, Quebec and I want to sell some old ...

Free Shipping Tuesdays

Were we not allowed 1 Canada parcel & 1 US parcel per Tuesday last year? I had thought it was the same this year till I tried to send one today. I was pretty sure we could ship 1 free to the US last year but may be my memory serves me incorrectly??

Your refund did not go through. Please use a different payment option and try again.

Ebay reps refuse to take accountability that their system is faulty. I even tried using my bank account directly, not only the card, and it still didn't work. I've been charged fees in the past by Ebay so the fact that my card or bank account is inco...

Error with galley photos on eBay app using CSV bulk upload

Hi everyone, Recently started using CSV files to list comic books on eBay, my new listings this way have been so much faster, however there is one problem, the thumbnail/gallery photos don't show up in search on the mobile app. (photo attached)I cont...

ChitChats tracking glitch

I got 2 defects for invalid tracking. It seems ChitChats "forgot" to transfer appropriate info to Ebay. Both tracking work while checking on ChitChats / USPS website - on Ebay, still shows pending, which is equal to invalid, which is equal to a defec...

Anyone recently used Chit Chats for UK shipment?

So this is the first time in a long time that I got a sale outside US and Canada. I'm looking up Chit Chats and I got a $16.75 (box unchecked) vs $25.34 (box checked) with Chit Chats international tracked. Please see the attached screencap. What exac...