Buying & Selling

Postage

Recently posted an item for sale, offers over $100 buyer to pay postage. It sold for $121 I assumed I would receive $100 less eBay commission, instead I received $68 apparently despite eBay stating buyer pays cost it was passed to me.Total rip off, l...

Sendle (Couriers Please). Avoid frustration, burn your money rather than trust these incompetents

Sendle (Couriers Please) are the absolute stand out in utterly inferior performance.On two occasions in the last fortnight they have absolutely failed to deliver and their drivers have been proven to be pathological liars.On 31 March an item was supp...

Seller wants me to remove negative feedback

So I ordered something that wasn't delivered. I followed the procedure after waiting a month or so for it to arriveI received the refund quickly via eBay.So far so good. The seller sent me 5 messages in one day the first one saying "In fact, the item...

SENDLE COMPLAINTS

I came on to see if anyone else had problems with Sendle, to see multiple problems. I paid for an item 28 days ago, and haven't received it. It's in some kind of Sendle limbo where they just add a couple of days into the future. The seller listed the...

eBay agreement changes

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2025/4/1744945181.htmlHas anyone here received the email mentioned in the blog?Hopefully it’s just USA

returns

im complaining about the fact buyers can simply make something up so they can return an item. plus if the item description clearly advises an item for sale may require servicing and once they receive it they make up reason to return it does not work,...

Payments

Hi ive sold item for $550.00 including postage,they taken out $74.00 in fees ,$21.90 in postage within Australia so they have payout figure at $454.10 but only recieved $427.26 so a shortfall of $26.84 but they dont show where the missing money on in...

seller being difficult

Just wanted to come on here to warn everyone to not get on a seller's bad side. This seller was triggered by me cancelling my bid (due to finding the product cheaper elsewhere), and proceeded to verbally harrass me. I then proceeded to APOLOGISE and ...

Ebay stealing after they refund faulty or wrong item sent

Okay so I figured out what Ebay do, and this is a classic example; I purchased a filter set from them and the item I received only had 1 part of the filter, there was meant to be 3 parts to the filter, plus the filter that they sent me was the incorr...

Get insulted by eBay agent

I called eBay customer care as seller to discuss an issue and he insulted and disconnected the call. Is this how eBay deal with customer?

How to limit full category listings to OZ results only?

For years I had a couple of bookmarks, for example: "Hiking Equipment>GPS & Compasses" with filters: under $300, Buy now, sort by newly listed. Ebay would automatically list only items located in Australia. Now I'm getting a lot of listings from the ...

Address Format Issue Caused by eBay's Insertion of Tracking Code

eBay has recently started inserting a system-generated tracking code (e.g., ebay:xxxxxxx) directly into the buyer’s shipping address — specifically between the recipient's name and their actual street address. For example (redacted for privacy): Name...

Import duty.

I'm watching an item which is currently jus over GBP100 and Ebay shows it has import fees of GBP 15 +Why do I have to pay this when in Australia there is no tax on 2nd hand goods, GST or import.Just about coming to the end of using Ebay after some 20...

Seller using stolen photos to sell item they don't have. Scam?

Seller refusing to remove photos of item they don't own. Advertised Linn Sondek LP12 Turntable in Cairns for $5000Photos are quite distinct from other advertisers selling same type of turntable.Reported to Ebay more than once but it's still there.Is ...

Send Offers - changes coming

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2025/04/16/ebay-to-improve-send-offers-tool/

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