Buyer Protection Fees Ruin "Nice Prices"

[bam-bam-diablo]

Since the dawn of time (OK, since the dawn of Capitalism, maybe) sellers have used prices to attract buyers. Pre decimalisation, £39/6d was a common price. It's just £2 less sixpence, but sounds cheaper. These days, it's £299.95, rather than saying £300.   Ebay is messing that up completely by non-transparently adding Buyer Protection fees.   Similarly, I have 226 issues of a collectable magazine that I will start at £226... clearly only £1 per copy. That's my selling point, and eBay has wrecked it.           And dont get me started on collection QR codes!

[therenewalworkshopltd]

So why is it so difficult to work out what the same price is with the fee?
You only need a calculator and some common sense!

[department28]

Most private sellers resent the BPF being tacked on to their prices, as opposed to being displayed separately - which buyers would, of course, find even more off-putting... It is just a further irritation to those that prefer nice, 'normal' prices, to have to spend time fiddling around calculating new prices, and adjusting every listing. And if you decide to reduce/increase item prices, that also takes longer - you can't just simply 'knock off a pound', because the BPF will need to be taken into account again.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

I don't actually disagree with that.  Even though they can't seem to work out that it's actually cheaper to sell with it........

But what was being put forward, was that they were unable to price the way they did prior.
Not that it was a pain to do.

And with a calculator promised by Ebay, it will all be easier to do anyway.