Threatening another eBay member is a violation of eBay policy, and can be considered a criminal offens depending on the type of threat. If you ever receive a threatening email from another member, do not hesitate to report it, especially if it is a threat of bodily or physical harm.
Report threats to eBay Trust and Safety, and to your local law enforcement. Your local police or sheriff’s office will send an officer to your home to take the report, so save the emails as law enforcement will need these as evidence. If the offender is stupid enough to send the …read more

Yesterday, eBay bloggers were all abuzz with the latest eBay news. By now, you have probably read online about or received the email from eBay regarding the big changes ahead in September. Don’t panic, everything changes and we just adapt and move on. I waited until today to post this announcement since I have been studying everyone’s reaction, opinion, and analysis on the changes. Here are the changes in a nutshell.
Fixed price listings- now only 35 cent insertion fee, up to 30 day listing time. 15 cent insertion fee for media items.
Limits on shipping and handling fees. (I am SO …read more

According to the eBay Announcement Board, the feedback recalculation without neutrals will take place the week of August 19. Past and future neutrals will no longer affect feedback scores.
Watch for your numbers to change and share in the comments section about how the recalculation affects your score! I’ll be watching mine.
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Clever (devious?) eBay sellers have learned how to create their listings in a way that will manipulate eBay searches to get more hits. Here is eBay’s Search Manipulation Policy:
“Members are not permitted to engage in any activity for the purpose of inappropriately gaining attention or diverting members to a listing. This includes any activity that harms the shopping experience by making it difficult for buyers to find the items they are looking for. Ultimately, it is the seller’s responsibility to ensure that each listing accurately reflects the item being sold, while not using any unfair methods to divert members to …read more

Add another item to the “Not allowed on eBay” list.
Historically, an eBay seller’s About Me Page has been a place where sellers can explain their policies, tell a little bit about their business, and until now, provide links to their own website or other affiliate programs. Those days are gone.
The updated eBay Links Policy states: “You may include links to your About Me page in your listings. However, you may not include language within those links that promotes items or other Web sites.”
Over the years, entrepreneurs have discovered how to use eBay as a portal to capture a segment of …read more

From the eBay General Announcement Board:
“We realize that any time sellers need to change their listings or templates, it costs you time and energy. To minimize the effort it takes for our sellers to accommodate our changes, here is a quick checklist of changes you may need to make in the coming weeks, based on the changes we’ve announced:
Remove any links to 3rd-party sites to stay in compliance with recent updates to eBay’s Links Policy (Read our previous announcement).
Specify shipping, return policy, item condition & handing time in the specified fields. This information will be required soon so now’s …read more