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Tue July 21 2026 21:45:38
Buyer Says eBay Pop-ups Disrupt His Shopping
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Dear Ina,<br>What is going on with eBay and all the bot and AI pop-ups on the site? I bought something yesterday and have gotten 1/2 dozen message to PAY NOW or LAST CHANCE TO PAY - and it continues.
I am waiting to hear from the seller to change the shipping option, and eBay is even interrupting my shopping experience with pop-ups to PAY NOW, COMPLETE THE TRANSACTION NOW.
I called to complain to eBay customer service, and good luck with that - there is no customer service or community to eBay - I suggested they sell the company to someone who cares!<br>J.
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Buyer Says eBay Pop-ups Disrupt His Shopping
by: etectra
Wed Jul 22 08:35:19 2026
"there is no customer service or community to eBay"
Assuming that you get past the AI chat bot and get a human it will most likely be someone at one of their Indian call centers who are paid an industry average of $2.40 an hour and who have no power to do anything other than claiming to file a report which eBay does not care about and essentially will go unread into the trash.
There is the eBay community forum, but that is a propaganda tool as any criticism of eBay will be met with fanboy responses and a possible ban from the forum.
Other sites such as Mills Fleet Farm do something similar - I visit the site and before I can type a search term its already displayed one or two popups that interrupt my search.
Are there any browser extensions or existing settings you can use to block these popups?
eBay has made local Facebook Marketplaces extremely user unfriendly due to the large number of eBay ads inserted into the feed. I need to use a browser extension that grays out any ads to make it useable. For instance, the local "Free Stuff" feed has 5 legit listing out of 55 items.
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