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Scammers

Our ebay account keeps getting offers but all have been scammers. This morning we got 3 offers from the same buyer. Seems like these scammers are targeting our ebay account. How to tell if it's a scammer or reall buyer. Every offer we have had so far...

Item delivered a week ago, payment still on hold. Am I helping to fund eBay or PayPal?

I don’t usually post on message boards but I’m really curious as to whether mine is a unique situation or if this is a trend experienced by others. I am new to eBay despite having a 25 year career in IT and a couple months ago bought an item and all ...

Are we being scammed

Hi both my husband and I have opened up ebay stores. My husband has already had 2 people attempt to scam him. My husbands store received an offer today on an item and we sent invoices and then I checked my store and I received an offer from the same ...

Send offer option not available?

So I have 5 watchers on an item...but no send offer button is popping up for the specific item....Why is this? Can anyone help?Thanks in advance Jake

how many times do relist a auction on avg .when it doesn't sell

how many times do you relist a auction when it doesn't sell -- even though the selling price is on avg for me is .99 starting and no min. i have about 14 auctions going right now and none have sold ---over two weeks have relisted them when they come ...

Resolved! How can I mail to a country I have blocked but agreed to mail for one item

I only ship to Canada and US but a buyer in Australia purchased a book somehow and then asked if I would ship to Australia. I agreed and sent the new invoice, but she is not allowed to purchase because it says I don't ship there. Anything I can do?

Any sellers on .COM using a US address: Ebay not charging GST/HST for Canadian buyers

This is an inquiry for any other Canadian sellers who sell on . COM using a US ship from address, who collect tax. I sell on . COM and .CA. Almost all sales are to the US. I have a Canadian 'ship from' address on .CA and a US 'ship from' address on ....

Resolved! Why is Ebay sending offers to my buyers without my knowledge?

I've noticed recently that offers have been sent out to buyers on behalf of myself on random listings of mine, but I am not sending them. This came to my attention when one of the items sold for a price lower than the list price. Ebay customer servic...

experiment with almost give away listing pondering problem

need to increase number of sales before the 20 th of month to get back to good glaces with ebay and lower charging rate 6% lower that is -- tried selling all my listings at 45% to 50 to 65 % off my already low prices -- don't increase sales still abo...

BEST FREE listing tool out there now?

plmk, thank you. i tried 2 of the popular ones but they would not work. im using firefox on a acer windows 10 home computer. i tried wonder lister and some other one (forget the name) and both did not work.

Media (DVD's/Blu-rays) Being Shipped from China!

I remarked on this topic a few weeks ago, but I was unaware at that time as to the extent of this problem. (When I went to revisit the thread after a couple of weeks, I noticed that it had disappeared. I was curious as to why .... it's the first time...

Resolved! OMG! WILL IT NEVER END....BEING CHARGED FOR GALLERY PLUS FEES OUT OF THE BLUE

Ebay seriously needs to get someone who is competent to run the show. All of a sudden i am being charged Gallery Plus Fees on random listings. I have never, ever used Gallery Plus in my life. However, i have had the fees credited back about 20 hours ...

99c auctions experiment, observations so far.

I auction a lot of stuff at the same start price it will be if it doesn't sell and then goes BIN, but it has been a very very long time since I've run a 99c auction.I've noticed that some of my "watchees" succeed in getting some very good results wit...

I am losing sells because you wont let the buyer request total when they ask for combined shipping

it was one of your suggestions that it would help sells

Need Help My fellow Canadians

i have sold shoes on ebay and they have gone to someone first to be checked for authenticity before going to the buyer no problems. i recently sold a pair to someone in Mexico and using eBay labels, i used the choice given and sent them just like bef...

Unable to general printing labels on eBay

I have had this happen a couple of times before. Not sure if Canada Post's fault or eBay's but have tried over the course of 40 minutes or so to print a label & it just keeps giving me an error message to print later. This is of course annoying but w...

Resolved! Sourcing Shipping Materials in Canada

Hello everybody, I am having a hard time finding a good source for boxes and bubble wrap, mailers etc. Can anyone here recommend a good wholesale company in Canada and better yet in B.C.?

Re: Winter 2023 Update - Gallery Plus Increase Discrepancy

Just as an FYI for anyone that uses the Gallery plus feature on a regular basis. You may want to check your bills. (Topic was closed for questions.) Changes to Optional Listing UpgradesStarting April 1, 2023, Bold and Gallery Plus listing upgrade fee...

Shipping Costs being a Canadian Seller

I was looking for some insight as I have recently tried to make my eBay a secondary source of income. I am getting a lot of messages about shipping. The majority of my sales are graded cards which I always send tracked however I am getting asked freq...

Resolved! ... Super Bowl ends, "You Made A Sale".. like clockwork

Seems like I always get a sale or three soon after the Superbowl ends.

Watchers

With the last update for watchers the count was attached to each listing when you hit 5. Anyone know if that is still the case? On my curent listings all I am now seeing is Ships from Canada, Returns accepted and/or New. From my past experience if/wh...

Sales tax on shipping cost

How is eBay able to collect sales tax on the shipping cost? I've just sold an item for $5 + postage $17.90 (yes, Canada Post at work) = $22.90 on which eBay has slapped 12% for the buyer. $2.75 tax on an item worth $5??

New kind of glitch - a blocked buyer buys from my store!

This is something very unusual. I got an offer from a buyer blocked since 13 months! I accepted the offer, then I realized the buyer was on my black list. It happens often that the banned buyers try to buy again, but they use other nicknames, but thi...

Selling digital codes

I have some livenation digital cash codes to use and have a discount on ticketmaster and i wonder if it's against eBay rules to list them? It's basically like a digital gift card/code. I did read the policies about it but it's not all clear to me 1. ...

eBay raising fees again

Hi eBayYou are raising fees again. That raises the idea that I should seriously leave eBay for another platform.Keep going and I will leave.

Resolved! Reporting eBay total on personal income taxes for 2022?

So this past year I decided to start selling my old pokemon cards that I'd had lying around since I was a kid. Sold about 50 cards for around $1115 total after fees and shipping label purchases. No individual item sold for more than $500. Hard to get...

RICARMICs Self insurance cookie jar statistics to end of 2022

WOW the 10th anniversary of me producing these!! Main overall note: In 2022 I shipped a higher percentage of NON tracked items, I'm usually running under 10% tracked now, folks were buying "smaller" stuff for the last half of the year. Overall Notes:...

Canadian but have a eBay.com address and want to sell in Canada but want to be paid in U.S. $

Buyers claiming defective, even though it was described. Ebay sides instantly with buyer

I recently sold a camera. The camera works amazing but the lens does not. Therefore I listed as used, and put in the title to read the description. In the description I repeatedly said the camera body works great and will work great with other lenses...

Import taxes on commercial goods

Is it true that, when importing goods for commercial use, only the GST (5%) applies ? Provided it goes through a custom broker I guess... For example, if I buy collections/lots of stamps in the US for resale. Thanks !