topic Re: Fees for business sellers in Business Seller Board

topic Re: Fees for business sellers in Business Seller Board https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/Fees-for-business-sellers/m-p/7928607#M338289 As I understand it, businesses and private sellers in the USA both get about 250 free listings, and everyone pays the final value fee (please correct me if I’m mistaken). Its a level playing field in which many businesses appear to be thriving. And it feels fair. In addition, the basic and featured shops for businesses in the USA include many more listings, which helps certain businsses offer very large numbers of items and so generate more in final value fees. Ebay USA certainly appears to value its businesses, and treats them well. Here in the UK , eBay seem to be using the site for an experiment. It looks like they want to see whether businesses sell much more when private sellers pay nothing. But this experiment will only succeed if businesses are the ones who benefit from the extra money private sellers are making, and so end up paying eBay more in business fees. If those extra fees from business sales (added to the new buyer’s commission) are making enough money for eBay, then the experiment will have succeeded.  It may well succeed. But if it does, I think it will be mainly those businesses that rely on sales of lower value items that  who will pay the price, as these are the businesses in particular that genuine and bogus ‘private’ sellers have such a competitive advantage over. A featured shop costs nearly £100  before you’ve sold an item, and I think an Anchor shop is over £500. And then there are the final value fees for businesses on every single sale. On the other hand, if the current experiment fails, hopefully the next thing they’ll try will be the USA system, which seems a lot fairer to me, and which of course immediately solves the problem of the private seller who is really buying to sell on the site.   Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:28:56 GMT writesoon 2025-09-15T14:28:56Z