What's with the weird start prices?

[doomed-doomed]

Just noticed today that most items, instead of starting at typical amounts, eg. £7.99, £19.99 etc, I'm seeing £17.23 or £22.61 etc.

Have eBay done something weird again?

[thebewdley4]

Thanks. That explains why my starting bids on two items I just listed are showing £11.12 instead of £10.

[skwilliamson]

And when you bid on something it seems to change it to some odd amount, too, so a calculated price is not what you intended! It's so confusing.

[zoomingmouse]

I did this list some time ago to get rid of the odd start prices - so if you want £9.99 you'd need to alter your start price to £8.91 so it shows to the buyer as £9.99. 

As someone pointed out though, if Ebay change the fee from 72p to 75p it will all be out again 🙄

Previous Start £     New start £            Buyer fee

6.99                             6.03                             0.96

7.99                             6.99                             £1.00

8.98 *                          7.95                             £1.03       *can't achieve 8.99 due to rounding up

9.99                             8.91                             £1.08

12.99                           11.80                           £1.19

14.99                           13.72                          £1.27

17.99                            16.61                           £1.38

19.99                           18.53                           £1.46

24.99                           23.33                         £1.66

29.99                           28.14                           £1.85

34.99                           32.95                           £2.04

39.99                           37.76                           £2.23

44.99                           42.57                           £2.42

49.99                           47.37                           £ 2.62