BBC Radio 4 You & Yours re: Ebay changes

[vintagewishesnk]

Having posted a comment on a thread about lack of sales since changes early February to Ebay fees including buyer protection plus 4% up to £300, then 2% £300 - £4,000; I have been asked to go onto Monday's edition of Radio 4's consumer programme You & Yours.  They are asking Ebay to come onto the programme too and I will go on around 12.50pm.  Apparently, they have received numerous emails about people who have traded for years and seen a complete drop off in sales.  Please note, this is just about private selling, not business.  I, like many, just sell clothes and items from the home as a way of supplementing our household income.

[moldosgifts]

Just a bit of wordy critic, private don't trade business trades, private just sell old possessions.

But anything to highlight your issues is a good thing.

[papso22]

I am surprised they are interested enough in private individuals who can't offload their own unwanted personal possessions to make a programme out of it.

A business that is struggling to make sales is a different matter altogether.

Just make very sure that Radio 4 knows which type of seller you are. 

[lucy_farmer]

Oh Good!

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 I listened to 'you and yours' yesterday in my car ; it was about Vintage, Antique and Collectable buying and selling.

Lots of stuff on about where to buy it: sale rooms, shops, markets and 'online'..... unfortunately the word 'ebay' only popped up when associated with the words 'charity shop' and 'tip' .

Example : " Yes, all the stuff you used to take to the Charity shop, put on ebay or take to the tip when your parents died....."  !!

Ebay doesn't seem to have a very high reputation 😒

[vinylscot]

I would be very wary indeed of going on national radio with regard to this issue.

You have already slipped up a couple of times with one short post, under no pressure whatever.

If you do so again, on live radio, you will not make yourself popular. Depending on who else is involved, you could find yourself being "ambushed".

It's good that "someone" is going to be able to air their views, but think very carefully, before agreeing to be that "someone".

[moldosgifts]

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@vinylscot wrote:

I would be very wary indeed of going on national radio with regard to this issue.

You have already slipped up a couple of times with one short post, under no pressure whatever.

If you do so again, on live radio, you will not make yourself popular. Depending on who else is involved, you could find yourself being "ambushed".

It's good that "someone" is going to be able to air their views, but think very carefully, before agreeing to be that "someone".

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NO think of the fame or infamy ,

p.s. couldn't agree more

[suelel1968]

Ignor the unnecessary schooling. People have "traded" on eBay since it started. Kids traded football cards etc when i was a kid. It is a perfectly acceptable expression for anyone on eBay to say they trade. 

I think it is great to get a discussion on that show and good on you for doing it. Hope eBay attend. 

[action_man]

That sounds great. This should be getting wider attention because back in 2024 before the "it's free to sell" TV advertsing campaign started and the seller fees were dropped, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone had already said: "We are planning to introduce a buyer-facing fee in the UK in early 2025 alongside a set of buyer enhancements that provide additional value." So, it was already eBay's plan to introduce a buyer's fee all along. Except for the unsuspecting, they thought the "free to sell" would mean what it said, they didn't realise that all eBay were really doing was sneakily moving the fees from the sellers to the buyers and at the same time hiking those fees up significantly on the low value items. For instance a 99p item will now cost the buyer around £1.82 which has almost doubled the price.

[the-nutwood-collection]

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy.  (Carry on Cleo).

[hugothecockapoo]

Bunged it in.   Bernard Breslaw. Carry on up the kyber 

[hugothecockapoo]

Dan Dan (the lavatory man).  Carry on screaming. 😂

[action_man]

Good luck with the programme @vintagewishesnk - I see some people have been trying to disuade you, but you really can't go wrong. It's impossible to slip up if all you're doing is having a chat.

On the Carry On theme from the above posts: "You know what’s wrong with it? The people who manage it. They don’t let their left hand know what their right hand is doing!" (Carry On Up The Jungle) - said by Jim Dale.

[carrotdrusus2]

Yet the CEO is convinced Ebay is the place High Value Items. 

[carrotdrusus2]

"Dr please, I want to be wooed"
"You can be a wude as you like matron.

Kenneth William Carry on Matron

[wysiwyg_steve]

Read the initial post and had a wager with myself that there'd be at least a couple of Business Sellers generously sharing their unrequested wisdom with a Private Seller in a thread solely concerned with selling privately. Quids in. 😉

[papso22]

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@wysiwyg_steve wrote:

Read the initial post and had a wager with myself that there'd be at least a couple of Business Sellers generously sharing their unrequested wisdom with a Private Seller in a thread solely concerned with selling privately. Quids in. 😉

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I don't see any of that on this thread.  What I see are members trying to help the OP not to say something they might regret on the radio.  That's completely on topic.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

you are contradicting yourself!  If he announced that they were bringing in buyers fees before the introduction of free selling then there was nothing 'sneaky' about it!!

[suelel1968]

Exactly, I am begining to think it is just to get to the top of the top contributer lists. Write off topic comments about Carry on films, get a few thumbs up to increase your score, get a new "advisor" badge. The quantity of stupid, unhelpful, off topic, even spiteful posts with thumbs up from the like minded cronies does not make  an anyone an "advisor" or "mento" on anything. 

The OP is doing a good thing and is obviously more than capable of chatting on a radio show. 

[*devils.advocate*]

I wonder why they're not interested in asking buyers?

It is they, after all, who aren't buying from private sellers, for whatever reason.

And IMHO, it's not just BPF - I'm still buying despite it.

[action_man]

@kath3735_wxmjn"you are contradicting yourself! If he announced* that they were bringing in buyers fees before the introduction of free selling then there was nothing 'sneaky' about it!!"

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*He didn't announce it and I never said he announced it. It was an internal thing for eBay staff only. What was announced to the public was "it's free to sell".

It was only month's later that the buyer's fee was introduced.

So, as I said, it was sneaky.