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chinese scam company

this company takes your money and items dont turn up, waited 6 months for my order, said they posted it, blah blah blah, chinese scam company, please beware people . no help from ebay aswell, not good ebay

Resolved! Purchases arrivng via Amazon

A couple of times now I have bought stuff on ebay and it has arrived from Amazon. It's obvious that the sellers are placing the ad on ebay, when a purchase is made they buy from Geoff, use buyers address for the delivery and trouser the difference. T...

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Suddenly I can't use any filters when searching

I look for items to buy by section. For example, I go to Test, Measurement and Inspection under the Business, Office & Industrial section. I leave the search box blank, set my filters to ‘faulty’ and ‘auction’ only then a few hundred items usually sh...

VAT

I am living in Northern Ireland and my ebay account is registered in GB. I am currently bidding on an item from a seller who is located and registered in UK. They are also a Private seller. Why is my bid notification stating that VAT will apply, shou...

Feedback removal for a seller left by mistake.

HiI can I remove negative feedback I left to a seller by mistake for an order which was even cancelled by the way. I basically mixed up two sellers while leaving feedback as I bought the same thing but one I had to cancel the order. Now I left wrong ...

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“Private seller” filter gone??

ebay removed the "private seller" filter last autumn and has not reinstated it. It was the only filter that could separate the generic far east spam listings from worthwhile listings. Why did ebay remove this feature ? I suspect that country beginnin...

How long to wait for response from seller when requesting invoice?

During yesterday and the day before, I won a series of diecast-car related bids, many of these around £1 - £2, totalling £13 before postage. Each of these have an individual postage cost of £2.94, which I initially paid no notice to, since every sell...

Resolved! unhappy buyer

I purchased a pk of toilet rolls ,recently only half size and shorter albeit same tissue pattern ,than a regular size roll this was not stated on the advert by seller , complained contacted by messages had to press for last reply so did feedback , wi...

Item not received claim put on hold?

I purchased an item from a seller which purportedly was going to be sent from Manchester UK, but was actually sent from China. I haven't received the item, it keeps doing a merry dance at the Evri depot, even being sent back to the senders depot at o...

Resolved! Item descriptions-colours

It's inconvenient tnat in your list of colours , in clothing, you don't have " cream". when are you going to add this please?

How do I stop the intrusive messages from eBay?

I keep getting the same message about qualifying for a £10 reduction, if I download the eBay app and I make a purchase over £50 on the eBay app. I find these messages quite unnecessary and highly intrusive. Is there any way I can stop them; they are ...

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