Buyers Protection fee

Question

I am a seller. A buyer has made an offer of £450 for an item. Ebay states I will receive £434.61. Why hasn't the buyer Protection Fee of £15.39 been added to the total cost the buyer pays? This implies that I, as seller, pays this fee. This cannot be correct. Advice please.

papso22 · Accepted Answer

@chemax_6833 wrote:

I am a seller. A buyer has made an offer of £450 for an item. Ebay states I will receive £434.61. Why hasn't the buyer Protection Fee of £15.39 been added to the total cost the buyer pays? This implies that I, as seller, pays this fee. This cannot be correct. Advice please.

Because the buyer is only prepared to pay £450 in total for the item and the BPF. The fee comes out of their payment, so they pay it.

tobiasd4 · Answer

You could have counter offered. Any offer seller makes, ebay add BPF on so buyer sees total.

61stephenuk · Answer

The buyer makes an offer of the maximum they want to pay including the buyer fee, in this case £450 eBay then take the buyer fee and the rest is passed on to seller £434.61 so the buyer has paid the fee to eBay

**peaseblossom** · Answer

Yes, it is as if seller pays the fee but that's the way it is with offers because the buyer offers what they want to pay. So the offer is actually £434.