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Hi,How can I change my search preferences to Worldwide permanently (Not just Advanced Search)

Most of my searches are on a Worldwide scope and it is annoying to have to go to Advanced Search each time to change from Australia. How can I change to Worldwide permanently?

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Just to let all be aware. I purchased an iPad Pro , paid immediatly with pay pal. Get message asking for phone number. Stupidly gave it. Next I am getting a text asking to reverse PP payment and send money to bsb and account. I naturally refused have...

Resolved! So called "best offer"

I don't understand when sellers put the "best offer" option on their listing when they are only willing to accept an offer of $1 or less of their asking price. What is the point? Hardly a best offer option.

Resolved! ebay ignored my return tracking number and closed dispute

I purchased an item on ebay 04/01/2017, $17.06 including postage. This seller is based in Hong Kong. When I received the item 16/01/2017, it was the wrong colour so I requested a return. The seller agreed to a return but would not provide me with a r...

Resolved! No way to tell if it's a multy listing

The "brain/idiot/numbskull's" brigade at this site has no idea, Now they've allowed the Chinese sellers to put up a listing that looks standard,eg: as below but they are actually multiple quantity listing,(which means members will look at listings th...

Item described as working but also as is?

If an item is described as working but sold as is, and upon arrival it's most definitely not working (nor would it be capable of it due to breakage of internal components) does the sellers usage of the term "as is for parts" indemnify them from respo...

Checkout issues

Yet more checkout issues. Typically when I checkout to pay I dont have to sign into paypal but last week and today when trying to pay ebay is having me sign into paypal.When I do so it just refreshes the page and does not continue to payment confirm....

Exchange Rate Calculator way out of whack

Just purchased a fairly expensive item from the UK. Ebay's estimate of 295GBP was AU $480.94 & the postage of 25GBP was AU$40.76, so that's roughly $521.70 My final price was $547.32. That's a discrepancy of $25.62! Not to be sneezed at. And then on ...

GSP

Ebay & Pitney Bowes are dirty player with the method they are using to call anything at all "restricted" and then refuse to sent it. I have realised that to avoid shipping larger or heavy items that they may or may not lose money shipping, they just ...

Error by Payment Came out of Account

Has anyone else encountered and error message when trying to purchase an item, the transaction not going through on eBay however the payment comes out of your account!

Buyer Beware. Sellers may provide wrong tracking number to avoid reimbursement.

I purchased a Phillips Airfryer through REMOVED and they took my money but shipped me nothing and refused to communicate with me. When I tried to get them to complete my order or reimburse, they issued someone else's tracking number to eBay to avoid ...

Resolved! seller has no stock

I bought a total of 4 items at different times over a 4 week period. 3 items were not shipped so requested a refund the other I received in prompt time. I dont know why this seller lists items when they are not going to be shipped. They also will not...

How long to get a PayPal credit

After purchasing a book with a $50 eBay credit, it never arrived. I contacted eBay after a refund was issued and it went back to eBay, to ask them if I could get another $50 purchase voucher to reuse. They said they couldn't do this but to go ahead a...

Seller refused to revise billing address on invoice

HI guys, I've bought an item and got an invoice for it. However on the invoice they have put the same address (which I provided at check out) for both billing and delivery address. I now need to correct the billing address for my tax purpose and the ...

Ebay loophole for seller, maximizing profit

I hope ebay could impose some new regulations for sellers found sending "wrong item" to buyers Scenario1. buyer buys item (postage included) cost AUD 8.602. seller intentionally send wrong item to buyer as they do not have stock for "listed item". Wi...

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