Buyer Protection Fee

[solentcityguy]

It’s not surprising sales are dropping off. I have just sold 4 philatelic items for a total of £16.30 and I see that a BFP of £3.55 has been added to the order. That is over 20% of the original price. In this instance the buyer seems to be prepared to pay it. I wonder however how many other buyers would cancel.

[xyz307xyz]

Buyers (in almost all scenarios) see the BPF upfront - i.e. the item price they see includes the BPF.

And many people were trying to sell items for e.g. 99p before BPF! Not many buyers for the same items at £1.75.

[solentcityguy]

It doesn’t seem right that they have charged the 75p BPF on each of the 4 items. All the 4 items have all been despatched in the same envelope so I would have thought one 75p BFP should be appropriate. Like many sellers I like to treat my buyers fairly and don't like to see them paying over the odds.

[xyz307xyz]

Not much anybody can do about it. In the olden days fees were something like (I can't remember exactly) 30p per payment plus 13%. Some people win, some people lose out. There's lots of people on these forums saying they are unhappy and leaving - (also to do with Simple Delivery and other things).

I had over two hundred items listed, mostly under £10 including postage. I now have 13, although I will put some of the remaining items into bundles. I doubt the remaining "150" would ever sell with BPF or SD; and I doubt I'll bother trying.