Buyers Protection fee

[chemax_6833]

I am a seller.  A buyer has made an offer of £450 for an item.   Ebay states I will receive £434.61. Why hasn't the buyer Protection Fee of £15.39 been added to the total cost the buyer pays? This implies that I, as seller, pays this fee.  This cannot be correct. Advice please.

[**peaseblossom**]

Yes, it is as if seller pays the fee but that's the way it is with offers because the buyer offers what they want to pay.    So the offer is actually £434.

[61stephenuk]

The buyer makes an offer of the maximum they want to pay including the buyer fee, in this case £450 eBay then take the buyer fee and the rest is passed on to seller £434.61 so the buyer has paid the fee to eBay

[tobiasd4]

You could have counter offered.

Any offer seller makes, ebay add BPF on so buyer sees total.

[papso22]

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@chemax_6833 wrote:

I am a seller.  A buyer has made an offer of £450 for an item.   Ebay states I will receive £434.61. Why hasn't the buyer Protection Fee of £15.39 been added to the total cost the buyer pays? This implies that I, as seller, pays this fee.  This cannot be correct. Advice please.

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Because the buyer is only prepared to pay £450 in total for the item and the BPF.   The fee comes out of their payment,  so they pay it.