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j-m-e_2008 · 2025-01-03T12:39:56.521000Z

Anyone else find these new rules are going to make eBay a lot worse? Feb-2025 - Fee for Buyers when purchasing - Surely this will limit sales and push buyers to other platforms. They say its to match with other sites, but seem to be missing the point that once someone has had something for FREE all this time, they wont want to then pay for it when they are pretty much getting nothing for this fee (as its pretty much the same as the 30 day money back guarantee already gave them) Feb-2025 - Payments for private sellers withheld until after 2 days after delivery or up to 2 weeks if not tracked - Surely this will mean sellers pushing items to over sites Coming later in 2025 - eBay postage only - having to purchase via eBay all postage for items sold on eBay (no more post office or freedom to choose how you ship externally) (This will certainly see Sellers move away from eBay) All these changes will hurt eBay, and they have just been forced on to the eBay community. With such drastic change, it should be optional or at least send a survey out for a vote on this. I see eBay drastically losing market share here. I hope the eBay analytics team are watching to see how many long running eBay accounts suddenly stop selling / buying once these changes come into force. Its easy to loose customers but its much harder to gain them back again.

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