Buyer fees 2025

[tulipsorange12]

If I sell something for £1 is it true that the seller is charged a 75p flat fee? That is so  off putting as a buyer and seller. 

If I send an item via Royal Mail's untracked service when will I get paid - will it be 48 hours after the estimated delivery date. 

These changes are rubbish for everyone.  Surely they will impact sales adversely.

[zoomingmouse]

I think that the item price will show as £1.79 plus postage to the buyer, but I may have misunderstood as still trying to get my head around it all.

Not sure how auctions will work though as the price will increase <hopefully>

[jesso1]

Hi, only way to guarantee delivery confirmation with royal mail is with a tracked service as they generally dont confirm delivery if not. Cheapest with them is now £2.55, nearly same as evri. Very offputting now when selling very small items. I have posted separately about this. Another nail in the coffin for royal mail.

[knitpatterns]

The Buyer pays the fees, which ebay are calling Buyer Protection, on private seller's items therefore making the item more expensive to the buyer, which will in turn impact sales as on low cost items of £1  it add  .79p to the price .75p + .04p (4% of the price), so instead a £1.00 to the buyer it will cost them £1.79p therefore they will think twice before buying.

[tulipsorange12]

And eBay are forcing 'simple shipping' onto sellers - we have to buy the label recommended by ebay. It is just a ghastly version of Vinted which I hate.

[bayseeker11]

You really shouldn't be selling items for less than what it costs to post. The only people making money out of that is the postal service.

[tulipsorange12]

How can we complain about these changes?

[asleepingdragon]

You are complaining, on here.  That's all you can do.  Or stop selling.  I don't sell any more.  

[lucy_farmer]

'How can we complain about these changes'

You can't.

 We have 'agreed' to let ebay do whatever they want to us by clicking 'yes' or whatever, everytime they update their Terms and Conditions.

Our option to disagree with new T's and C's, is to stop using ebay.......

[ren_ns]

They still don't always confirm delivery even when you pay extra for tracking and sometimes if you make a claim against Royal Fail even when it stated you're insured they just give you flippin stamps! And useless 1st class ones at that, which they deliver at the same speed as 2nd class.

[charliethestardog]

I'll be stopping selling. Not paying the seller until the item is delivered is the seller giving credit, no thanks! Marketplace for me I think!

[charliethestardog]

That's fine me me. Marketplace, collection only and cash!

[papso22]

Agreement to new T&Cs on ebay is 'by performance', in other words the first time you use ebay after a change signifies your acceptance to the change.

You don't have to tick anything. 

[lucy_farmer]

'You don't have to tick anything. '

That'll be why I can't remember if it was 'yes or whatever'!     turns out to be 'whatever' 😅

[reasonable-robert]

its a question of wether the buyers will accept it though 4% plus 75p makes say a £10  blue ray dvd £11.75

people will start buying from amazon or ali express where they can buy it for £10 or wait and buy it from tesco,asda,morrisons or sainsbury with their shopping ...no waiting and no fees 

these posts miss the point its not about the sellers but about the buyers 

it doesnt matter if you are a BS or ps  no buyers mean no sales 

e bays shareholders in their mansions with their offshore bank accounts are demanding more money to fund their champagne lifestyles.

if the brass at e bay read these boards they,d realise e bay is heading for disaster 

[myweestampshop]

Marketplace - more details please, for the doughballs like me that do not know what that is?

Thanks

[parsley2003]

Royal Mail are the only ones who collect and that i will use i see that will be available on Simple Delivery too 

[parsley2003]

Exactly every single small listing, i sell postcards and knitting patterns too, will have that amount added. If a buyer buys say 5 items and you combine postage Ebay will still add that 75p +4% 5 times, i can't see how it's worth continuing selling small value items i can see us getting abuse especially as the extra will not be shown as going to Ebay, the buyer will just be shown the total price as far as i can see thinking it's our price. What makes it worse is that "until sold" items that go round and round will all have this added on 4th Feb it's not just new listings

[kidmore_kats]

At a guess I assume they mean Facebook Marketplace.

Of course nothing ever goes wrong there.

[parsley2003]

That's why i can't do free postage often the postage is more than the item price now