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STARS

can somebody explain the coloured star that is beside your username and what does the colour mean? i have a gold/yellow star but i see others with blue,turquoise etc

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TRANSLATING ITEMS SOLD FROM OVERSEAS

i WAS INTERESTED IN BUYING SOME THINGS FROM GERMANY BUT THE LISTING IS IN GERMAN EVEN THOUGH THEY POST TO AUSTRALIA. IS THERE A WAY I CAN TRANSLATE THE DISCRIPTION?

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Checkout wants my phone number

I just did a BIN from a seller in China, and when I went to pay, checkout would not proceed until I provided a phone number. Anyone else seen this?

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Purchase history sequence

Just checking to see if I am doing the right thing. Made a purchase (won an auction). Chose Bank Deposit. Seller messages me the deposit details which means that I cant mark as Payment Sent. Few days later I message the seller to see if he has reciev...

Buyers with an Intellectual Disability

This is something I have thought of as I have an adult son who has brain damage .I am his carer. He has asked if I could help him open up an account here to buy things.I have said that between State Trustees and myself we can help him buy things from...

Seller did not reveal they are selling for someone else

The problem here is that I have contracted to buy an item from someone who is not actually the seller. The seller has good feedback and so I trusted the item description (eg used but "in perfect condition"). The 'hidden seller' was allowed to list th...

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Who to trust?

After recently having lost $300 buying gold ( that turned out to be fake ) from Chinese sellers with their location shown as Australia. Lost because I handed the items over to the police as the fake hallmarks were fraudulent rather than returning the...

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I am sending myself messages?

Just went to message a seller about one of their items, but the mesage on eBay got sent to myself! Is the message system broken or how would this happen?

Can no longer see item details on feedback?

Hi There, Assuming this has something to do with updates/changes to ebay recently, however, i have now noticed that i cannot see description/details of the item which i have purchased with the feedback (hope this makes sence) I use my feedback detail...

Bidding ended when I placed a bid

I placed a bid on an item from China. There were stilll days to go. When I checked, it said I had to pay. The bidding closed after I placed my bid. Am I committed to buy, because I did not commit?

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Seller won't post

Hi everyone.I won an item with free postage and paid with Paypal.The size fits Australia post requirements and would cost the seller under $10 to post. Seller now refuses to post saying he sold it as a pick up item. He didn't and It's still showing i...

New User Interface is frustrating!

We have been using the new user interface without "Add to Watch List" on a search page for some weeks now. I am finding it so frustrating! I can accept clicking on an item before being able to add it to my watch list, even though that adds time to wh...

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Disputes

I have had a few purchased a few items lately, and I have noticed a trend of a few sellers sending items few weeks late, and more frustrating not at all. I wonder what weight ebay really has in it's ebay disputes when the seller refuses to communicat...

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