topic Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off in Payments

Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

br760458 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:38:41 GMT

Absolute rip off. I won a gold bar but they wanted almost £24 in buyer protection fee. Ebay can get lost.

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

tressygirl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:41:01 GMT

@br760458 wrote:

Absolute rip off. I won a gold bar but they wanted almost £24 in buyer protection fee. Ebay can get lost.

We'll be sure to pass your message on !

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

jonatjonatjonat — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:07:45 GMT

What would be a suitable amount of fees for ebay to make on the sale?

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

br760458 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:20:04 GMT

It's folks like you who think it's ok for customers to get ripped off thar are encouraging ebay to set these fees. Go have a look around the Internet about what customers are saying about this and you'll see you are in a minority of folks who support getting ripped. You can carry on being ripped off but I'm not.

Sigh there's always one always

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

jonatjonatjonat — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:26:32 GMT

No - what they dislike is having charges applied that they don't understand what they are for (see also - Ticketmaster fees)

If that £24 was as it was before and simply hidden in the price of the product - no one would care. But make no mistake - the buyer i still paying in some way for the fees.

But ebay still need to make money off the sale. I'd accept that you could simply move back to seller fees (though you'd just pay a higher price still - you just wouldn't see it) but right now, ebay want to persist with BPF (which is just the money ebay make to pay for ebay - plus make a profit). So again - what would be an acceptable amount for ebay to charge? should it be nothing?

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

br760458 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:28:23 GMT

It's still a rip off and your encouragement for this is getting on my nerves

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Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

jonatjonatjonat — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:29:14 GMT

I'm asking a genuine question. What level would not be a rip off?

You believe its a rip off - but refuse to state what you believe would not be.

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

daro2096 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:57:35 GMT

Was it a 5g bar? How much would something have to be to have a BPF of £24?

Re: Buyer Protection Fee is a rip off

sml192 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:15:02 GMT

@daro2096 wrote:
How much would something have to be to have a BPF of £24?

£865.

The BPF works out at about 2.8%. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

For comparison the old seller fees were 13.22% which on a sale of £865 would have been £114.35.