Buyer Protection Fee - I am disgusted about this Stealth Fee

[retro-boy]

I have a few small value items for sale and today they are all now too expensive for buyers. 

There is NO MENTION on the listing page of why the prices shown in not the price asked.

Just so that eBay can say in their TV adverts ... "Ohhh... look at us now... It is free to sell on eBay"

and compete with Market place and Vinted..

Its not NOT FREE TO BUY (from private sellers)

This has killed off all cheap items (£5 or less i would say)

Quietly introduced .... in with no real information .. especially to the buyers   -- It is really DISGUSTING.

I now have to lower the prices to compensate for this STEALTH FEE.

So, it is NOT FREE TO SELL .. 

LIARS 

eBay was built on private sellers - and NOW WE ARE GETTING SHAFTED in a very DECEITFUL manner.

I've been an eBay member  since 1999 and never been so angry to be honest !

PRIVATE - NORMAL PEOPLE - SELLERS NOT WELCOME HERE 

.. or you can come but we will take a fee for anything you list ...

FREE TO SELL... UTTER LIES

[plum993]

The ebay anouncement on this is here, and yes it's not great for buyers or sellers The best place to buy and sell | eBay.co.uk

[plpmr]

The fact that you are in Global Shipping makes things worse, for example -

ball point pen BIN £4.49 plus Global charges [to Eire] of £18.54.

[tobiasd4]

If you upgrade to business seller account, there is no fee for buyers.

[retro-boy]

Ouch.. !!
Well, it just means that it wont sell 
.... and there is NO MENTION on the listing to the buyer that the price is inflated and that the seller is not getting the money that they pay.. 
I now have to revise the price in all of my listings back down to market price.
I will need a calculator to try and work out what 11.99 is now ??
and the fact that we dont get paid until weeks after the sale is awful.
I dont think that eBay want private sellers now.
I DO NOT FEEL VALUED 
more betrayed .

[retro-boy]

I am aware of that 
but.. I am not a business

[papso22]

Did you lower your prices when ebay removed selling fees for private selling accounts or did you decide that ebay had just put some more money in your pocket?

[retro-boy]

No I didn’t

The reason for this is the prices are at market value

I would have to lower the prices to achieve that price of market value

I didn’t have to do that when Ebay said they were removing the selling fees

?

[tobiasd4]

You are selling some multiples of new items.

So ebay and HMRC may not agree you are not a business 

[papso22 · Accepted solution]

I think that says it all really.

So now when you lower your prices you are going to get much the same as you got when you paid fees.  As you say you are not a business, whatever you get for your old unwanted items should be a bonus.

[papso22]

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@tobiasd4 wrote:

You are selling some multiples of new items.

So ebay and HMRC may not agree you are not a business 

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Not sure I do either!

[arkwebus]

I do wonder how much difference it will make.    Certainly lower price articles will be affected but [and I use eBay now mainly to buy] if I want something I will still buy it [for the convenience as much as anything] even though it costs me a bit more.   

I do not claim to fully understand it but in the old days when everyone paid when selling a £100 article would have fee of £13 odd which the seller paid out of the price leaving him £87.  Now the buyer will pay £105 odd of which the seller pays eBay £5 leaving the seller £100.  

The seller could surely reduce the price somewhat to get the same outcome?   [At that thought I fall about laughing perhaps?]     @retro-boy