Buyer Protection when you buy from private sellers

[condoghost]

So, let me just get this straight, @eBay want us to believe they're doing us a favour charging me the buyer 4% + Buyer Protection flat fee £0.75, a 4.75% mandatory charge on top of the £100 price the no-fee private seller has set their sell to me - no ifs, no buts, no choice whatsoever.

Should that be a £1 item the private seller is selling it will be 4% £0.04p + £0.75p + the £1.00 = £1.79, a whopping 79% on top of this exampled no-fee private seller item.

Seems to me @eBay are asking us - the buyer - to pay something extra to subsidise the cost of their no-fee private seller business model.

My opinion? it's 'farcical' but hey, please let me have your opinion on it for us all to have both buyer-feedback and no-fee private seller feedback to form a collective opinion.

[plpmr]

"eBay want us to believe they're doing us a favour"

Indeed they are because they are charging buyers for something they previously got for free.

[condoghost]

Factually they are charging buyers for something either previously covered with a cost to the seller or a cost  absorbed by eBay within their business model.

It was and still is not something buyers previously got 'free', introduced to get buyers to buy from marketplace sellers that they'd might not buy from otherwise.

Still, all entitled to have an interpretation no matter how skewed that might be, 'thank-you' for that.