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Any seller that wants to avoid paying fees to the payment processor (I.e. PayPal) or the website hosting his/her listings, they should not be in business. There are overhead costs to doing business,...

Hey, I didn't know we are allowed promoting our own listings anywhere in the forums.

I really enjoy the fact that it does not cost extra to use the reserve price format for auction listings. Other sites charge outrageous fees to host a reserve price, and that makes no sense when...

If a buyer is bad at math, doesn't make the seller automatically a con artist.

While a high number of hits is probably due to a faulty view counter, there is a possibility that someone has posted a link to your listing in a high-traffic forum. I have a website and I use the...

It's always been possible to edit shipping costs once you create a bucket. I base my shipping options and costs on item price, so it's easy for me to select all items that fit within a certain price...

Two weeks and I'm still waiting on that package from BC. Have had trouble in the past getting packages from the western US, though I assumed the problem was in the U.S.

I checked the Canada Post...

The mail service within Canada has become inexplicably slow. Last month, I bought some items from a seller in Alberta. They took 10 days to get here to Ontario. Now I am waiting on a package from...

Saying up front that you accept offers is equivalent to telling prospective buyers "Hey, my asking prices are deliberately set too high so that you will have to negotiate with me to get the real...

What jeweleffects said. And be sure you take full responsibility for what happened. The buyer doesn't have to accept your apology... and ebid doesn't owe you one just because you did not know how...

There are some good workaround solutions that OPs have mentioned. I would agree that selecting a flat rate option for international destinations would be good. Make it a high amount (like $50) and...

Hello.
Welcome to ebid, I hope you enjoy your experiences here.
Sellers and buyers can leave any kind of feedback for each other. Feedback extortion is not permitted. If a buyer tries something...

And you're usually much more polite than that. I made it quite clear in my initial post that I didn't know the exact terminology to describe the practice of selling items that someone else has and...

A few bits of advice:
- Don't sell counterfeit goods because you will be caught and suspended.
- Don't make multiple identical listings because that's against the rules too.
- If you are selling...

The term "Dutch auction" has been totally bastardized by that other big auction site and hence its meaning has been completely changed from what it used to be. In years past, a Dutch auction was...

Well, the title of the discussion is "Selling Advice - Answer your customers promptly", and that does not sound unrealistic at least to me. It's free advice, so you can do with it as you please. I...

Giving good service to customers makes me unrealistic? Fine. I just thought it was common sense in this wired world to keep in touch and to at least let people know when you plan to be out of...

Your buyers are in the U.S. as are you. I checked your 3 shipping options to the U.S. and they are all the same, "Other Courier Service", and you give three different prices for what appears to be...

Sure you can take the weekend off. Just use your notices to let buyers know.

You're not being overly-cautious at all. When a PayPal account is stolen, the person making unauthorized use of the account will ask for shipping to another address. That's because changing the...

Like cheaver, I am a firm believer in communication. I have no sympathy for users who select to NOT receive e-mail communications from ebid telling them potential buyers are attempting to contact...

Apparently, you can leave someone negative feedback long after they have been struck through. Here's a user with a feedback score of -20 (that's negative twenty)...
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Thanks for sharing that. I learned something new today. I don't like it, but it's good to know :(

I have never had a buyer request COD. I consider it a blessing that buyers these days are conditioned to paying for the item first, and I wouldn't do anything to change that!

Nobody has ever asked me to use another online payment processor than PayPal. I tried signing up with Google Checkout, but it's not available to Canadian sellers (or has that changed?). The only...

Domestic or international, mail service just seems to be slow all around! I live in Ottawa, and I sent a couple of regular letters to Toronto last week. Neither letter has reached its destination...

PayPal did not refund all of the fees? I've never encountered that before. When you refund the entire amount of a payment, the payment is reversed, and so PP should not keep anything.

As a seller, I will gladly leave feedback after payment is received. I have no reason not to do so as I sell in categories where fraudulent buying practices are low. However, if I never hear back...

In the circumstances you've provided, there is no third party involved. You're acting as a go-between for your friend without bringing your friend into the transaction. The purchase from the seller...

I never meant to imply that nefarious circumstances are behind such request ALL of the time. I'm merely saying it increases the likelihood of something going wrong. It's just like if you leave your...