How is the price calculated when buying?

[lefty-acoustic-fanatic]

Afternoon folks

I'm confused but this could just be me being a dopey moo 🐮 but...

I've bought 2 identical items from a seller that each cost £11.84 (there's no multibuy discount) so that comes to £23.68.  I have £17.44 in my eBay account from an item that I previously sold so that means £6.24 is owed and should be charged to my debit card.  eBay has charged me just £5.51 which is a difference of 73p.  So how have they arrived at this figure?

eBay's breakdown in the Order Details states:

2 items = £22.69 

+VAT     =  £  0.26

TOTAL  = £22.95 (how?)

Elsewhere on the screen it states that buyer protection of £1.31 was included for this transaction.  If I add this fee of £1.31 to £22.95 it comes to £24.26 so now I'm even more confused!

Can anyone enlighten me on this so that I can understand WTH is going on?

Thank you guys! 

[john1297576]

I cannot make sense of it either, but the only thing that comes to mind, is that for some reason in calculation of buyer protection, the 75p is always calculated as 73p. 

Therefore are they only charging one fixed fee of 73p for the two items? As ebay say only £1.31 even if the VAT is added, it does imply only one fixed fee taken.

Only ebay could come up with such a daft system, it sounds as “simple” as simple postage. 

[lefty-acoustic-fanatic]

Thanks for the reply John.  You may well have a point regarding the buyer protection fee.

eBay has completely lost the plot with the various changes they've recently implemented.  The old saying of "a camel is a horse designed by a committee" comes to mind. 🐎🐫🙄