It's important to remain in good standing in paying eBay fees. Sometimes sellers try to find ways around paying fees or do so by mistake. Please see "Some Examples" (below) to make sure you're following eBay policies.
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utside-of-eBay offer - Listing an item on eBay and then being paid outside the eBay system. The eBay item page may not refer to or promote the seller's individual Web site (including home page URLs which directly or indirectly promote an outside-of-eBay website), sales outside of eBay, or other businesses. However, sellers may include links to their eBay Store and eBay Store items, provided that those links are not URL redirects. See the complete Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay policy.
Unreasonable shipping or handling costs - The seller may add a reasonable shipping and handling fee to the final price of the item, but may not charge excessive shipping and handling fees, excessive required insurance fees, or excessive (or not applicable) taxes in an effort to make the item appear artificially inexpensive, to avoid eBay fees, or for any other purposes. A shipping and handling fee may cover the seller's reasonable costs for mailing, packaging, and handling the item. Shipping and handling fees may not be listed as a percentage of the final sale price. See the complete Excessive Shipping and Handling policy for more details.
Listing with additional purchases - Listing an item that requires or offers an additional purchase. Outside of reasonable charges for shipping, handling, insurance, and taxes, the buyer must not be required to pay an additional amount or sign up for a service or any other required action not relevant to the transaction for something as a condition for receiving the item or receiving the benefit of the item. For example: travel certificates that require the holder to buy or pay for something (such as a hotel room for seven nights) as a condition of receiving the benefit of the coupon (such as free or discounted airfare).
Avoiding multiple item listing charges - Listing a single item and offering additional identical items for sale to multiple buyers in the item description or proposing that buyers indicate the number of items they want for the same price as the item in the listing. One example would be a carpet seller listing one square foot for Rs. 100 and allowing the buyer to purchase as many as they like at the same price. In single item listings, you may not instruct buyers to indicate the number of items they want even if you state that they can get the same price as the item in the listing. Instead, you'd list using Fixed Price format and indicate multiple quantities. (If you want to sell a single lot, for example, a single set of four bowls to one buyer, you can do that in either auction-style or Fixed Price format.) See Selling multiple items in a listing
Listing choices of different items
- A listing where a seller lets buyers choose among a selection of completely different items. In general, sellers can offer a choice of sizes, colors and configurations of a particular item within a listing. However, a listing may not offer buyers a choice of completely different items.
Email address, phone number or domain name in the title, subtitle, item location, or images - Listings with contact information (including home page URLs which directly or indirectly promote an outside-of-eBay website) in the title, subtitle, item location or images aren't allowed. Exception: This is allowed only in listings offering a domain name for sale.
Catalogue Sales - Listings catalogues from which buyers can directly order items isn't allowed. In this case, the seller offers the catalogue for low bid prices and completes the sale outside of eBay for items found in the catalog. Old or collectible catalogs (from which you can no longer place an order) are allowed.
Avoiding Re
serve fees - Cancelling bids and ending a listing early because the seller's desired price hasn't been met. Sellers who don't want to sell an item below a certain price should use the reserve price option or set their starting price at the minimum price they are willing to accept. Please see the complete Reserve Price Violations policy.
Want ads and trades - Listings that advertise a desire to buy or trade items isn't allowed. The purpose of the listing page is to describe the item for sale and not to trade for or look for other items. Listings that are advertisements for buying or trading items provide a poor buying experience and make it harder for all members to sell items. To address members’ desire to post want ads, eBay created the “Want it Now” area, where these types of postings are permitted and encouraged. Please see the complete Want It Now policy for more details.
Payment Surcharges - Although sellers may offer a discount to the buyer for preferred forms of payment, sellers may not charge eBay buyers an additional fee for their use of ordinary forms of payment, including acceptance of cheques, money orders, electronic transfers or credit cards. See the complete Payment Surcharges policy.
Putting items in the wrong category
- Listing items that are outside of the appropriate category and belong in a flat fee category, such as homes and vehicles, is a form of fee avoidance and isn't allowed.
Extending Listings - Sellers indicate the listing duration when they create their auction-style or Fixed Price listing. When the seller submits the listing, the duration is fixed. eBay may on rare occasions (for example, as the result of a site outage) extend the duration of a listing. Extension of listing duration by a seller, either manually or using automated tools, isn't allowed. Extending a listing for any reason is not only a form of fee avoidance, but also harms the finding experience for buyers.
Warranties - A warranty is an additional purchase for the buyer. You may offer an optional warranty or service (such as installation) to complement the item in order to provide better service for the buyer. However, the optional warranty or service must be directly related to the item and may not: substantially alter the value of the item, be an additional item, be excessive in price, or cause the listing to have an artificially low price. Additionally, eBay members who offer items on eBay valued at more than Rs. 1000 and who offer either a written warranty or service contract with the items, must in their item descriptions provide one of the following:
The full text of the written warranty - period, coverage, exception, claim process etc.
A statement explaining how a free copy of the written warranty can be obtained upon written request
A link within the listing that takes members to the warranty details
eBay urges its sellers and buyers to comply with all governmental laws and regulations. Since the sale of warranties is highly regulated, or may cause harm to eBay or its members, sellers are restricted in how they can list them on eBay. See the complete Warranties policy
Must use Buy It Now and PayPal.
