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Warning to buyers: Ebay Automatically Inflates Bids Despite No Other Buyers Bidding (Reserve Prices)

When did Ebay start automatically inflating bids in reserved auctions, despite no other buyers bidding? None of the obvious help pages flag this up, nor does the bidding process itself. I've just seen Ebay automatically inflate a bid by 100s of Pound...

Counterfeit LEGO SET 42171 - Mercedes-AMG F1

I consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to Lego and I recently purchased a Lego 42171 F1 car. The photographs showed a box with all the correct "LEGO" & "Technic" branding so I purchased the set. The set arrived and the outer packing suggested i...

Ebay keep finding excuses to pay my refund!?!

on the 28/07/25 i purchased an item on ebay that was supposed to arrive by the 31/07/25 from luton uk.the item was posted from lithuania on the 03/08/25 and i havent received it yet (11/08/25).on the 04/08/25 i filed a not received claim and ebay kee...

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Resolved! Negative feedback

Over the past 3 months I have had issues with sellers getting it wrong so I left negative feedback for them.My issues are ebay has removed both feedbacks with out an valid explanation.So my question is what is the point of the feedback system?Should ...

Ebay breaking the Law

EBAY ARE BREAKING THE LAW IN THIS COUNTRY SO BADLY, FORCING PEOPLE TO USE A MORE EXPENSIVE POST, ASKING FOR INSURENCE WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE IT AS POLICY, ONE MORE THING, AFTER 10 MINUETES I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUTBUYING AN ITEM, IT WAS LATE EVENING, T...

Why do so many searched items vanish when you click 'low to high'?

Does anybody know why when you do a search for something and you get, for example, 146 items on 'best match', and you then click your sorting option from 'low to high price', (or any other sorting option), the number of items shown drops to, (again a...

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HELLO EBAY

HELLO EBAY, FOR YOUR INFORMATION - I AM THE VICTIM - NOT THE OFFENDER. I BOUGHT ROMAN HOLIDAY BLU RAY FROM AN EBAY SELLER - AND INSTEAD I GOT ROCKY V BLU RAY. HE EVEN INSISTED THAT HE SENT ME ROMAN HOLIDAY BLU RAY. DO EBAY BUYERS DESERVE THIS SORT OF...

Resolved! Messages ignored by sellers

One thing that really is getting worse is seller communication, not responding to messages and basically treating buyers as a nuisance! I find this very odd and now will not buy from someone who can't be bothered to respond or interact even if I want...

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Resolved! VAT

Hello, I haven't used ebay for a while, but I have now bought 3 items from UK sellers and I have been charged VAT on all 3 items, is this a new policy or a mistake? Thanks.

winning

i dont want an email telling me i am winning when i already know that , i cant unselect that from ebay preferences , no option

Problem with item being collected instead of postage.

Hello guys. Don't sell very often but had a bit of a garage clearance. 2 items sold to the same customer, they emailed before to ask if they could collect both. One order was collection only and th other had option for postage. Now the customer has c...

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Buying

Hi, Is there any way I can send an announcement to all ebay seller to ask them if they have the item I want to buy? Thank you

Sellers listing false prices

Cab eBay stop the listing practice where the seller has multiple items in order to list the main item at a lower price, for instance a phone is listed as X price but that is the price for the charger on its own , the phone itself is another much high...

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