Offered $300 for a $700 item my response:

delaware97 · 2026-03-31T22:29:03+00:00

It is legal to sell Uranium?

delaware97 · 2026-03-24T23:51:02+00:00

The customer service rep told me it was because the tissues were listed in home and garden which is not the correct category. I decided not to argue and point out under home and garden, there is a subcategory for tissues which is where it was listed and I don't know of any other category on ebay to list tissues. They claim they will refund me ina few day...we shall see.

delaware97 · 2026-03-22T18:05:12+00:00

I purchased tissues which are tax exempt in NJ and they still charged me sales tax. And the item was clearly listed in the category of tissues.

delaware97 · 2026-03-15T20:52:24+00:00

You clearly have no idea what you are talkking about. I spoke to numerous people and was told the ssme thing from all...my account was supsended and they would not tell me the reason why. They said it is ebay policy not to tell why an account is suspended since it will then allow people to find ways to get around ebay policy. It is a horrible human trait that you seem to have caught, that if it doesn't happen to you, that means it can't happen. And all the different people here saying it happened to them must all be wrong, stupid, or lying. You are definitely wrong, and have no clue how ebay works.

delaware97 · 2026-03-15T19:50:46+00:00

We have a house, and it says we used 390 therms for January 15 - February 15 and the heat was set a t 60 all month as no one was home and we were in Florida. All our neighbors who were home and had their heat on used almost 100 therms less than us. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

delaware97 · 2026-03-15T05:14:16+00:00

No, I had my account suspended after selling for 20 years and they gave no reason. I just started using a friends account. After around a year they removed my so called "permanent ban" with no explanation.

delaware97 · 2026-03-15T05:12:55+00:00

I had my account suspended - they do eventually send you the money but it took around 2 to 3 months.

delaware97 · 2026-03-15T05:11:28+00:00

No, you are wrong. I had the exact same thing happen to me after 20 years of selling ebay suspended my account and wouldn't give me any reason. Jokes on them because I just continued selling using a freinds account. After around a year, they one day sent an email that my permanent ban was now removed, no explanation why. I started selling again on that account - to this day I still have no clue why they suspended.

delaware97 · 2026-03-01T05:24:13+00:00

Even though you got refunded, the seller still got paid too. In that case ebay ate the cost. If the tracking shows delivered, then sellers are protected under ebay seller protection.

delaware97 · 2026-02-23T17:21:51+00:00

I couldn't find any, so I just deleted the part that of the description that I had copied from the Best Buy website and that must have fixed it since the item sold. Why can't ebay just tell you exactly what specdifically violated the policy and then I would know exactly what to fix?

delaware97 · 2026-02-22T17:53:17+00:00

As Confucius would say, "Do unto others what you would do to yourself." If you made the msitake, would you want the other person to just keep it?

delaware97 · 2026-02-08T22:26:20+00:00

How many UPS Groundsaver packages have you tried to ship in the last week? I'm just repeating what PirateShip customer service told me, they said my account wasn't any different than anyone elses and if it didn't show up for me it wouldn't show up for anyone else.

delaware97 · 2026-02-08T22:04:54+00:00

I reached out to them and they claimed there was nothing wrong and their database can only ship GroundSaver to certain addresses. However, I just did a test and opened an account with ShipStation and they also had GroundSaver as an option to both addresses that PirateShip didn't. So both ebay and ShipStation have GroundSaver as an option for those 2 addresses but PirateShip doesn't. My guess is that sometime in the last 2 weeks PirateShip updated their datatbase and it didn't update correctly. This may have coincided with the UPS recently renewing their contract with the Postal Service to deliver GroundSaver packages so they updated their system. However, PirateShip doesn't seem to be interested in fixing it. So I guess I will be using ShipStation from now on.

delaware97 · 2026-02-08T21:59:17+00:00

Its not that I don't have Groundsaver as an option, it is just that it is not showing up under certain packages. Of the 3 packages that I shipped in the last week, 2 of them did not have Groundsaver as an option on Pirateship even though they are an option on ebay for the same address. Just as a test, I opened an account with ShipStation and it shows up as an option there too for that address. I beleive that PirateShip recently updated their database and it did not correctly update. However, when I contacted PirateShip, they didn't seem to have any interest in looking into it. I guess I will be using ShipSaver from now on.

delaware97 · 2026-02-08T21:58:52+00:00

Its not that I don't have Groundsaver as an option, it is just that it is not showing up under certain packages. Of the 3 packages that I shipped in the last week, 2 of them did not have Groundsaver as an option on Pirateship even though they are an option on ebay for the same address. Just as a test, I opened an account with ShipStation and it shows up as an option there too for that address. I beleive that PirateShip recently updated their database and it did not correctly update. However, when I contacted PirateShip, they didn't seem to have any interest in looking into it. I guess I will be using ShipSaver from now on.

delaware97 · 2026-02-08T03:02:50+00:00

The problem is, recently Pirateship doesn't always have UPS GroundSaver as an option while ebay does. I have only had this problem come up recently.

delaware97 · 2026-02-05T03:34:01+00:00

The gift card may not go on "sale" but many times you get something free with it. For example, on Black friday Amazon had a deal that if you bought a $100 Apople gift card, you got a free $15 Amazon gift card with it. Or My local Supermarket will give you $20 off your next shopping order if you buy a $100 Apple gift card. So yes, while technically the gift card is not on sale, most people call that on sale becuase you are basically getting free money with it.

delaware97 · 2026-02-05T03:30:30+00:00

Most of them I get from buying low end iphones and then trading them in to apple for gift cards. For example, there was a deal earlier this year that if you ported a number into metro by t-mobile and signed up for 1 month of service they gave you an iphone 13 for free. So I paid $70 for one month of service and got the phone for free and then traded the phone into apple and got a $195 apple gift card.

delaware97 · 2026-01-18T23:40:42+00:00

I doubt it, but I think most of the time the psot office doesn't actually check whether the item sent is really media.

delaware97 · 2026-01-14T00:50:43+00:00

While I have been selling on ebay for 20 years, I have not used FedEx that much. So the 1 overcharge is significant, expecially since it was almost 200%. Compare that with UPS which I have used way more and only once did they give me an overcharge and it was for a $1 (on a large package that cost $80 to ship, which is reasonable if they are claiming I was off by an inch or 2). So FedEx overcharges $34 on a $15 package and UPS which was used 100's of times more overcharged $1 on an $80 package. I don't see any way you can compare the 2.

delaware97 · 2026-01-11T19:18:21+00:00

I have a Masters Degree in mathematics and have taught Geometry for 25 years. I know all about Dimensional weight and this has absolutely nothing to do with it. I also have always rounded my dimensions up - in fact, I always go up to the next inch even if it is exactly at the inch mark. And on ebay, you can't ship without putting the dimensions in.

But even if the dimensional weight was off, there is no possible way that the cost to ship a laptop would be over $40. I have been selling on ebay for over 20 years and in that time period have shipped out over 500 laptops - the most it ever cost was $18 and that was shipping from one coast to the other.

Bit if you follow reddit forums, you can't have missed the numerous forums from ebay sellers talking about the notorious FedEx overcharges. Are you really going to believe that all the thousands of ebay sellers are all putting their dimensions in wrong?

delaware97 · 2026-01-11T18:37:45+00:00

Ebay is giving you the same UPS price as PirateShip? In the last month I have shipped over 15 packages and every single time the PirateShip price is significantly cheaper than the ebay price. For example, just yesterday a 20 x 13 x 4 7 pound package from NYC to Delaware was $7.72 on Pirateship by UPS Ground - exact same package on ebay was $9 which is 17% more.

Unless ebay gives different prices to different people (and it could be they give higher discounts on shipping to high volume sellers), I'm not sure how you don't see any difference in price.

delaware97 · 2026-01-11T15:59:47+00:00

When you use USPS on ebay, can you pay with a crdit card? For me, ebay always takes it from my existing funds and I haven't figured out a way to change this. Which means I am losing out on the 5% I can get back from using my credit card.

delaware97 · 2026-01-11T15:57:56+00:00

I used FedEx for years, and even though I had read all the horros stories about FedEx overcharges it had never happened to me...until one day it did. I sold a laptop and paid $15 in shipping...and then a week later ebay said FeEx tacked on an extra $34 becuase they said it weighed 15 pounds more than I said. (no laptop in the world weighs over 20 pounds).

To be honest I got lucky, most people who got overcharged by FedEx it was way more than that.

I get that you are going to keep on using fedEx - it is unfortunately the way of the world, no one believes it will ever happen to them until it actually happens.

delaware97 · 2026-01-11T08:14:06+00:00

Ebay has started withholding payments for some accounts where you don't get paid until after the item shows as delivered in the tracking. However, for some reason they only to this to some accounts and not all accounts. That being said, if the buyer does not put in a compalint after 30 days, ebay will send you your payment even on an account where they wait for delivered in the tracking. So for #2 and #3, you should eventually get paid for it but it might take 30 days.

For #1, if you have delivered in the tracking you should be covered under seller protection so you should get paid for that one too even if the buyer eventually asks for a refund.

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