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Monday December 30, 2013
eBay Removes Negative Feedback Left for Abusive Seller
Dear Ina, About a week or so before Christmas I had a strange experience with eBay removing a valid ...

Sunday December 29, 2013
eBay Practice of Displaying Unsold Listing as Sold Is Deceiving
Dear Ina, I was doing some housekeeping on my eBay site and ended some of my listings that were slo ...

Thursday December 26, 2013
eBay Should Disable Negative Feedback for Shipping Time Ratings
Dear Ina, During periods of bad weather, eBay takes steps to protect sellers from low  DSR sc ...

Monday December 23, 2013
eBay Seller Finds Breaking the Rules Pays
Dear Ina, I am located in Australia, and on eBay to receive TRPlus (and possibly a boost in best mat ...

Saturday December 21, 2013
eBay Opens Claim Against Newegg in Response to Buyer Question
Hi Ina, I ordered an item from Newegg. In my opinion they have always provided great service. Appare ...

Wednesday December 18, 2013
Photo Quality: eBay versus Amazon
Dear Ina, I am a small eBay seller who has FINALLY gotten the pictures eBay says are unacceptable ou ...

Tuesday December 17, 2013
eBay Seller Threatens to Delay Refunds if Negged
Dear Ina, Dealing with a jewelry store on eBay. In a letter they sent out (which I've attached) th ...

Monday December 16, 2013
eBay Gives Buyers Unrealistic Shipping Delivery Estimates
Dear Ina, Hope you can inform others and help me. I have noticed some time ago that eBay is givi ...

Sunday December 15, 2013
Etsy Flooded with Resellers Posing as Handmade Sellers
Dear Ina, I just had to write because I am so disappointed that you just post the Etsy company lin ...

Wednesday December 11, 2013
eBay Rejects USPS Number for Tracking When Adding Insurance
Dear Ina, On Priority Mail packages with extra Insurance added, the Post Office considers the Insura ...

Tuesday December 10, 2013
eBay Throttling Leads to Layoffs
Dear Ina, Great article on the selling limits - however I wish the focus would have been less on ...

Monday December 9, 2013
eBay Seller on the Edge as Reports of Purges Continue
Dear Ina, Well, I've seen it all - a long time large power seller was booted with the last evaluat ...

Sunday December 8, 2013
eBay Cancels Seller's Item, but Won't Identify Which One
Dear Ina, How helpful is THIS email? I have an item cancelled - but they are not going to tell me w ...

Saturday December 7, 2013
eBay Allows Some Top Rated Sellers to Flaunt Rules
Dear Ina, I had an interesting conversation with eBay regarding the 14 day return policy. I had call ...

Tuesday December 3, 2013
New Bonanza Delivery-Time Metric Distressing to Sellers
Dear Ina, Around the 3rd week of November 2013 another new rating for Bonanza sellers was implemente ...

Monday December 2, 2013
eBay Boards in Turmoil, Morale Is Low, As Seller Purges Continue
Dear Ina, Thank you for posting the article about Charlie - who was kicked off eBay for "Vero" and a ...