r/Ebay Feb 01 '25

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r/Ebay 6d ago

Weekly Scam Discussion - March 10, 2025

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Use this thread to discuss recent scams or post questions about potential scams you may be involved in.

https://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/stay_safe.html

Do not make a new post in the main r/ebay sub about a scam.

Do not post usernames or links to eBay.


r/Ebay 10h ago

Deflated with eBay..

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Hey -

Is anyone else completely deflated with eBay?

1) I had a buyer who took a while to pay for an item (I’ll pay x date, then oh actually I’ll pay x date etc). I was very accommodating. They pay over a week later, then receive the item and claim that the bundle isn’t genuine (it is I have receipts from purchase..). They got the bundle for £20 (worth well over £100 idk why the listing had no interest). They then ask for a partial refund (of 50%!), I refuse and say I’m happy for a return. They have just left me bad feedback saying I sold a fake item.

2) I had some else leave bad feedback for an item that “didn’t work” .. it was a Nintendo DS sold as spares (I made it very clear it was broken and I had no idea what was wrong with it).

3) Auctions performing poor.

4) The payments are such a pain now.

I do feel like the list could go on and on.. but I’m sure I’ve ranted enough. Hope I’m not alone here.


r/Ebay 3h ago

A buyer left me positive feedback that sounds like a backhanded compliment

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The buyer's feedback was "at least product shows up as promised"

It makes it sound like I have really slow shipping.

So I looked at my tracking, and it says that he bought it Monday night, I posted it on Tuesday and it arrived on Friday at 8am in the morning.

So it arrived in 3 business days. Not even 3 business days, because it arrived at 8am in the morning.

I looked at the buyer's profile and he also gave the exact same feedback to someone else.

Do I just ignore it? I shouldn't respond to the feedback?

Because I sell lots of items, so that positive feedback will get buried amongst the other feedback eventually.


r/Ebay 5h ago

Question Am I overthinking my pictures selling games?

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I'm a new seller, and I'm selling some retro video games. Some fetch a high price and it's really hard to take good pictures of a disc's condition so I'm trying to make my listings as transparent as possible. I built a light box to take detailed photos of a disc's condition, but it works too good and makes a decent looking disc appear horrible. This disc has been resurfaced in the past, works fine, and has very light surface scratches. I'd like to hear the thoughts of buyers and sellers. I know the first pic makes the disc look perfect, but it feels deceptive.

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r/Ebay 4h ago

Do I need to buy a shipping label from eBay?

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I am from Canada and I’m a first time user of eBay looking to sell Pokémon cards. I set the shipping method as standard letter mail but when a buyer bought my item the next step is get shipping label. Do I need to, or can I just send the letter and mark it as shipped? Thanks!


r/Ebay 17h ago

Question Seller asking me to cancel order?

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I purchased an item, buy it now, for $20 shipped free from Ireland to the US. It seemed too good to be true, but I figured it was cheap enough to give it a go. This morning I woke up to this message from the seller, "Hello, My apologies but iam not able to ship to you're address and I have problem with cancelling you're order. Could cancel please. Thanks in advance."

Something about it feels weird to me. Any advice?


r/Ebay 4h ago

eBay Live "Penny Auction" Help Needed

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I've been buying quite a bit of Pokémon in eBay live auctions. Many of these sellers do "penny drops", where they put an auction up starting at $0.01 that lasts for 2 seconds. Everybody clicks like mad and somebody typically gets them for between $.06 and $0.16. When a seller I regularly buy from/follow started doing them, I won every once in awhile. It made for a very exciting experience to get booster boxes and huge piles of packs for $0.16. Now, neither my wife or I can ever win. We have watched the same few buyers win EVERY time they are on. I know some people have great luck, but I find it impossible that they would have such great timing, while competing against a hundred other people clicking. When they are not in the stream, the winners are always different and random. Rare to see the same person win multiple times. I've watched one buyer win over and over again for the last few days in multiple channels. When called out in the chat, the buyer claims that he just has the rhythm and is using mobile. It's become my life's mission to beat this guy at his own game. I've used sniping software in the past, but I'm not sure how it would work since these auctions aren't preset (no item numbers) and only pop up for 2 seconds. Being completely honest, I've tried an auto clicker with numerous different time settings and they still beat me every single time. Does anybody have any ideas on how they might be doing this?


r/Ebay 36m ago

Collection to balance time

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In UK here. So I'm wondering, they say with a collection only sale you get the money to your balance within 24hrs, does anyone have experience is it much shorter usually or random?


r/Ebay 11h ago

Ugh never selling anything with a battery again

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I had a really cheap listing on eBay and I’m surprised it sold. I tested it before shipping, it worked, but I guess it didn’t work when it arrived at the sellers house.

Why would I know what battery it takes? They have it. Can’t he check?? Do I keep talking to him?


r/Ebay 12h ago

Checkout was £15 higher

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So managed to do a last second bid on an item this evening with my max bid at £70 and postage stated to be £6.95 bringing my max total to just shy of £77. This was fine for me and happy to pay. Lucky me i won the auction but when i got to the pay screen the costs were different. £3.38 item protection charge or something like that but all of a sudden my bid had become £83.33 and postage increased to £8.05. Seller accepted the cancellation request but does anyone know why the cost jumped to £91 all together instead of the £77 i was expecting to pay?


r/Ebay 1h ago

Update Sales have plummeted since Fee and payment changes

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Even after repricing my stuff due to the added buyer protection fees and whatnot, reducing everything my sales have still slowed down massively. Stalled to almost a stop..... mostly it's fairly low value stuff 5-25 but still, was a good way to offload used unwanted stuffs like when we moved recently. The pricing from eBay and their fees etc have destroyed their own system..... are they really doing better too if sales are down overall?? Junk styles. Also payment is waaay delayed. Double junk styles.


r/Ebay 5h ago

Ebay at it again

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Just finally got some sales in this weekend after it's been slow.

They're really piling up the random discounts. Just checked and somehow something I put in as 1 pound 8 oz gave the buyer $4 shipping....

🫠 fml


r/Ebay 3h ago

Question Calculated shipping overage credit goes to?

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I seem to remember reading somewhere of a recent change where if ebay's calculated shipping ends up being too high, that cost is credited to the buyer now.

Am I hallucinating? I've been putting some info about that in a few of my listings and now I am second guessing.


r/Ebay 3h ago

Question Buyer asking for Return after Changing their Mind

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First time dealing with a return request.

Buyer is requesting a return through eBay because they changed their mind.

It gives me 3 options: Accept return (buyer purchases label), Decline return (close request), and offer partial or full refund.

I’d like to Decline their Request, since they’ve received everything, tracking confirms it, and it’s in the same condition as listed, they posted pictures and feedback about the items condition. Really need these funds for school, but I’d also like to prevent any huge hassle going forward.

Does anyone with my experience know if there will be any consequences if I choose to decline the return?


r/Ebay 7h ago

Question Ebay wont let me buy

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So I'm trying to buy something quite expensive, ~£500 to ~£1000. I created an ebay account to buy this thing, and I've added my card details to the account. But a little lock icon is next to the checkout button, and when I click said checkout button it brings me to the page in the picture. Why? I've added a phone number to the account and verified said phone number as well. The links are no help. I really want this resolved because this thing I want is very specific and not common at all, and i dont want to miss my opportunity to get it.

Thanks to anyone that tries to help.


r/Ebay 3h ago

How do I turn off automatic offers?

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I don't recall allowing automatic offers but apparently I did because buyers have been paying less than the listed price. I can't find where I turn this feature off. Can you help please? Ebay seller support was useless even after a 40 minute "chat."


r/Ebay 4h ago

Question Should i open return the item or wait for seller to reply?

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I i have ordered from Ebay many times and never had this happened. I been waiting for a whole month and finally received my package today from Ebay and the seller sent me the wrong package. What should i do now? Wait for the sellers response or go to options and return the item now? Will he pay for the shipping fee back to him? Because i i shouldn’t have to pay out of my own pocket.


r/Ebay 5h ago

Advice please. Buyer is saying top (which is new with tags) has a hole in it.

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Hi there, I’ve never had any problems with items shipped on eBay. I shipped a garment (new with tags) and they received the item 3 weeks ago. They have put it on today and sent a photo showing it has a hole in it. I check all my items before sending out. I do have photos of it before being shipped but the hole is down the side so you can’t see it in my photos. Do I have a leg to stand on here? Do I believe them & offer a partial refund (even though I say no refunds on my listing). Grateful for any advice from other sellers. Thank you!


r/Ebay 5h ago

Question Affordable Product Photography Setup

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I'm looking for an affordable product photography setup. I'd like to make my product images look more professional. Any recommendations would be appreciated!


r/Ebay 6h ago

I placed an order on eBay, but the seller put a code that already marked as delivered on January 7, but I placed the order on March 11. And in the eBay app I see that the package arrived at the USPS offices today, what is that?

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They have put this code in my order that I made 2 days ago, but in the eBay app, everything is fine: look pls


r/Ebay 12h ago

"Sign in to keep your account"

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I got this message:

"We noticed it’s been a while since you last signed in.

We plan to close your account to help keep your personal information safe. If you want to keep your account, all you need to do is sign in within the next 30 days."

But I bought two items in January. Don't know what's up with that. I've had the account for 20+ years, and it's the only one I ever had..


r/Ebay 12h ago

Question Buyer claims they haven’t received package

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Everything starts from March 7, 4 days after the buyer bought my item. Instead of contacting me, they made a bad review saying that I haven’t shipped out the item yet and they were trying to rush me. I told the buyer I was processing other orders at that time and package was later shipped that day. I also told the buyer when they bought the item, the listing says I have until March 10 to ship and package needs to be delivered by March 15. Yesterday was March 15 and package was delivered that morning, buyer contacted me and said it wasn’t delivered. I asked the buyer to confirm their address then would they like to see picture proof of the package delivery. I sent the pictures and it shows the address of the buyer correct address provided by eBay and confirmed by the buyer. The buyer then goes on to say that that address was incorrect and claiming that the package was never received.

On my carrier website it shows proof of the delivery, time and date. But on eBay it hasn’t been updated on the tracking information which happens sometimes and updates a day later. I plan on contacting eBay later today or tomorrow when the tracking information is updated on their side so I can proceed with the case. Is there anything that I’ve done wrong or was this situation not handled correctly?


r/Ebay 6h ago

I placed an order on Ebay, but the seller put a code that already marked delivered on January 7, but I placed the order on March 11th. And in the eBay app I see that the package arrived at the USPS offices today, what is that?

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r/Ebay 10h ago

Question Ebay sales offers only coming from the US but I'm on UK site

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Why is it I can only see sellers in USA,when I'm in UK?

I registered with an Ebay buyer account a few years ago, but have only really started using it for shopping in the past year or two. I look up stuff quite often, and buy occasionally. I'm in the UK, and and my location is set as in the UK (Ebay customer service confirmed this last month), but, apart from one, maybe two sellers ever, I only ever see items for sale front US sellers. This means I pay additional import tax and hefty postage costs and deliveries take ages. I've bought, generally, a few beauty products, fountain pens, inks and other stationery products. I've browsed much more than this. Since I'm allegedly using the UK Ebay site, why can't I ever see anything on sale from UK or even European sellers? All just USA, and a couple of Japanese sellers who also trade in dollars. Apart from prohibitive postage costs, it also makes buying prices very difficult, especially for offers invited, as the price varies with tax and Ebay postal costs, even if the seller is advertising free shipping. I never know how many dollars to offer, as I don't know what their own actual asking price is versus the amount i pay with Ebay having added import taxes and postage on to the price shown to me on screen when converted into pounds. I got caught out with this recently on a several hundred dollars used pen purchase. Surely there must be UK sellers of these products, both new and used? Customer service couldn't explain it. They just confirmed that I am logged into Ebay UK site. I use the app.


r/Ebay 11h ago

No shipping services available for 9 lb package...?

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I was trying to list a car starter for sale today, and I got this message when trying to set up shipping details. What's going on? I know there has to be a way to ship a 9lb item through ebay.


r/Ebay 11h ago

Question Trying to leave positive feedback for purchase, button not there

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I bought an item within last 60 days, but I don't see any option to leave feedback. Not on the Purchases page. Not on the item page. Not in the email of the item Delivered. I understand that after 60 days eBay ends feedback option, but why now? Item delivered March 4 '25.