r/eBaySellers

My mom passed away last year and was a lifelong “I’m going to sell that on eBay” gal. The plan is to list some of her larger collector items that don’t have sentimental value and donate the rest. Is it risky in terms of value to try to sell more rare items on eBay as a first time seller? I by no means am looking to make the most and profit off of my mother’s collection, and I know this is what she wanted done with this stuff, but at the same time I hate the thought of things she has kept stored for decades that a true collector would want being sold to someone for $20 because it didn’t get exposure.

She has a mix of 60s-90s pop-culture memorabilia and modern day collectibles, a lot of items that were made as one time promos or “1 of 1000” kind of things.

I’ve learned this over quite a few instances. Every time I decide to trash an item that hasn’t sold, it quickly sells shortly after because I forgot to end the listing.

I mostly sell figures, anime/Japanese merchandise and collectibles on eBay, and my sales and traffic have suddenly dropped really badly over the past two weeks or so.

A lot of my listings are getting barely any views, some are getting 0 or 1 views and no watchers even though they’re still active and publicly searchable.

I checked my Seller Hub traffic for the last 30 days and everything seems to be significantly down compared with the previous period:

Organic eBay views: 31.2% decrease
Promoted Listings views: 11.1% decrease
External organic views: 44.6% decrease

Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? Or does anyone know how to fix this issue? Is there something I’m doing wrong?

I’m in US and I need this explained to me like I’m 5 yrs old. Lol. Before EIS started, I didn’t want to deal with the hassle of international shipping, so I didn’t allow it on my items. Then EIS started and I was opted-in. Everything has been fine, but I had someone message me and ask me to add their country (South Africa) so they could buy the item. I started searching the website trying to see if EIS excluded SA. I came across my shipping preferences page with all the regions I can exclude shipping to. It got me wondering, why would I exclude shipping to any international region if eBay doesn’t hold anything against you after the item reaches the domestic hub? Also, it mentions shipping with EIS AND international shipping where ship “directly”. I still do not want to ship internationally directly. How do I make sure that is not alllowed while still staying opted in to EIS?

So I sold an opened box phone which has never been activated and it was delivered last week Wednesday. On Sunday, the buyer messaged me that I should send a charger as the charger they had was slow charging the phone. I made them aware phones don't come bundled with chargers but as a gesture of good will I can either send them a brand new spare charger I had or refund them £10 to buy a charger. Was waiting for their response until I got an email from eBay that they have opened INAD with a claim that the phone goes blank when they receive a phone call.

Deep down I know this is just buyer's remorse given that they didn't have the decency to message me about this "issue". I have already accepted the return but my issue now is the fear of fraudulent return by them. How do I protect myself from possible label tampering?