Sellers fees or protection fee?

[accoya65]

If a seller lists an item and gets the asking price, the buyer pays a protection fee. If the buyer offers a lower price it seems the seller ends up paying the protection fee. You get the offer minus the protection fee. That’s quite deceptive

[papso22]

It's just a perception thing.

[accoya65]

Quite. It’s not obvious though when you list an item and it quite clearly
states buyer protection is paid by the buyers But the reality is with an
offer the seller pays the buyer protection .i list and an item for £20. I
get an offer for say £18, I receive £16.75. If the buyer pays the list
price £20, they pay buyer protection on top. It’s not free to sell if the
seller is effectively paying the buyer protection fee. Why not stick with
sellers fees? You call it perception I call it deception.

[john1297576]

You are told how much you will receive when an offer is made, so up to you whether to accept or decline.

Even worse with this silly system, is that if seller is for various reasons able to avoid using Simple Postage, they get this under Custom Post, so despite most of the ebay buyer protection not applying, and seller becomes liable for refunds, buyer is not told they are paying a buyer protection fee for nothing.

[accoya65]

Thanks John
There seems 101 different ways of posting now. Thought I had it cracked.
Last few parcels I have taken to the corner shop. Scanned and
label printed. This morning computer says no. its back to the old Royal
Mail print your own label. For all this clever technology they still can't
standardise anything
Cheers Simon

[papso22]

The buyer is still getting all of Ebay's published benefits covered by the buyer protection fee. 

It doesn't matter what postage system a private account holder uses.