Upcoming fee reductions for private sellers ... but anything for business sellers?

[strangestash]

Great to see upcoming buyers fee reductions for 'private' sellers (£0.75 to £0.10 for listings under £20) ... but sadly this will mean business sellers selling low value items under £20 (myself included) will be another £0.60 out of pocket on small item sales competing with all the 'private' accounts selling things at floor prices.

Full article: https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-uk-tweaks-buyer-protection-fee-private-seller-payouts/

These 'buyers fees' are actually just marketing for hidden sellers fees, and now something I previously sold at £2.99, will now be getting sold by private sellers at a lower floor price with this reduction, meaning for me to compete I'll have to take another £0.60 hit on an already low value, low profit item.

Any changes for business sellers here? Or is the pendulum shifting to just punish being a business seller now, and eliminating the possibility of us competing with private sellers on items under £20?

Most of my items are in this under £20 category, so this slight change will take a big chunk off my chances of scraping a profit on anything low value as a business seller, and have me clutching at straws for profits. Not to mention all the competitors masquerading as 'private' sellers and just running business accounts on private accounts, making it impossible to compete on price. Would really like to think eBay would have business sellers' backs here and offer some kind of similar remodel or reduction following this announcement. As it stands it feels like they are robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Any hope at all they're protecting us legitimate business sellers and supporting us too?

[wyntersemporium]

I have noticed it’s always the private sellers get bits off here and there and yet us business sellers don’t. 
I sell low value items and seems to me that eBay  are taking more and more off me everytime.

i don’t do promotions etc.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

They are just rebalancing things after the change.
I'm pretty sure that they had plans in place when the rolled it out originally, to allow for this kind of change.

But just because they will do this sort of thing, certainly won't make any difference to fees for business.

Who knows though, there could well be something in the pipeline for changes, but I doubt it.

If there was one thing that I wished that Ebay would do, it would be to sort out the business sellers using private accounts.  If they can just get a fairer playing field, it would make all the difference.

[wyntersemporium]

Wish they would too. There’s loads In the costume jewellery category. Saw one that had a 2000 on a private seller account 

[geosacha007]

By adding 75p plus a percentage to private seller sales they made it impossible for private sellers to sell cheap items.  It must have hit ebay's bottom line.  They've just made it realistic now.  

[the_book_seekers]

anything for business sellers?

ebay regards business sellers not being subjected to BPF and Simple delivery (at the moment) as benefits,  even though many have subsequently seen nothing in the way of advantage from it and quite the reverse in some cases.

[strangestash]

It's a shame, that £0.60 difference to private fees suddenly now means I have to discount the majority of my stock by £0.60 to compete with private sellers selling at floor. It's lose, lose.