@sumnites wrote:
Sellers dont need to boycott, the buyers are doing that themselves as the Buyers protection fee inflates prices offered by private sellers so no sales. Sellers cannot afford to reduce prices to cover BPF as we aren't charities. Its hardly worth checking accounts daily to see yet another zero sales. I have some books to sell. WoB offer me 50p each. I could list on ebay and waste my time as with BPF and postage private sellers cannot compete with book business sellers. Last book I bought cost less than the postage I would have to pay to sell one. May as well give stuff to a charity shop then at least helping a good cause.
Sellers used to have to pay final value fees, so your argument doesn't entirely hold water, though we could nitpick over the comparable levels of FVF vs BPF, especially taking into account the 70 or 80% reductions we would sometimes get.
Book sellers? I couldn't even compete with World of Books, Music Magpie and the like even in the old days for many of the books I would otherwise have been listing. Those companies are listing at prices below what I could even buy postage for, let alone leave me with a few pence beer money. I used to dump them in the giant book bin in my area, I think for heart foundation or some such. No doubt they were being pulped. Can't even do that now because the book bin has been withdrawn because some slimeball dumped dog feces in it.
