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Resolved! No Click & Collect option when offers are accepted then autopaid

Hi all, when making an offer on an item that has the Click & Collect option, you get the warning window that if the offer is accepted, your default payment method is used to autopay for the said item, however, it will only show you your primary addre...

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Click and Collect wants a Barcode

I chose to have my item delivered to a Collection Point (as there have been a lot of delivery thefts). eBay said in the email to wait for a collection code before trying to collect my item. Royal Mail only asked for ID and email confirmation, so the ...

Resolved! Click and Collect

Hi,My preferred 'click and collect' option is Argos in Sainsburys. But whenever I try to purchase certain products this is not an option and gives a random newsagent instead. Is this a seller option or ebay?Thanks for any response.M.

Resolved! payment for purchases

I get the 'error page' each time I try to pay for the items I have won. It is early morning now and I shall leave it until afternoon. Has anyone else had this problem? Obviously I can access the site otherwise I would not be able to write this, but i...

I can't verify my age because I do not own a credit card...

I went to purchase some fabric shears, to cut canvas, at checkout ebay halted me with an age verifcation banner, however I can only prove my age by providing credit card details - debit cards aren't permitted. I don't own a credit card, this is by ch...

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Resolved! Listed Item Price Difference Between Seller and Buyer

I live in the UK and I recently bought an item from Japan at £35.03 (this included postage and buyer protection costs). The seller had two of these items in stock so naturally they were down to the "Last one". The "Last one" was listed at a lower pri...

combined postage

As far as I was aware, Asking a seller for the cost of combined postage was just that. The buyer asked, the seller replied no or yes, and gives the buyer the price. Not anymore. If you ask the combined postage, ebay invoices you for the total postage...

Storage of Visa card details

I don't normally save my Visa card details when buying something on any web site. I'm happy to input my Visa details every time I buy something as, rightly or wrongly, it seems more secure that way. I've just bought my first thing on ebay for over a ...

cash flow boosting

Over the last few weeks, I have come across various sellers that sell items they do not have, and delay refunding buyers for as long as possible. I have been reliably informed the reason for this is to increase cashflow for failing sellers. Has anyon...

VAT on Australian items?

Can I assume that if there is no mention of VAT on an item that the bid price doesn't contain VAT and that if import an item customs will charge me import VAT? There is no option to pay customs fees upfront that I can see.

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Ebay, a law unto themselves.

And so I have arrived at this point. I bought a shadow box from the USA. In the shadow box displayed very nicely was an antique flintlock pistol (bear in mind that flintlock pistols were supreseded in the 1840s by cap and ball), a photograph from the...

I purcahsed a 5080 scammed

I purcahsed from ebay a 5080 and i received a cctv camera dirty and not the product i wished for my birthday. seller now said that i send the wrong item back but i never send anything back as i been waiting all most 1 week for ebay to get involved . ...