Buyer protection scheme.

[fsconnell]

This gives an unfair advantage to business sellers & only increases the selling price for private sellers.  I sell a lot of low price items & this puts a 20 to 25% increase on them, also if an item gets lost I always refund the buyer, so do my customers need this "protection". Hopefully Ebay will rethink this as I am already seeing a huge reduction in my sales.

[*vyolla*]

It will certainly hit private sellers hard, those who are just having a clear out of their own personal bits and pieces and selling low value items.

[fsconnell]

Lets hope Ebay respond to so many members objections by rethinking a fairer way.

[*vyolla*]

I think it would've been a good move to not apply the fee to items which sell for less than £5. 

[goldenwolfman]

I don't think obey want to sell cheap items - they are trying to rid themselves of inexpensive items to make more money out of bigger sales. But I think its a mistake as those small sellers were also buyers - so they've lost buyers and will now be seeing it as sales drop!

[banditfrenzy]

I think ebay should seriously consider actually paying traders masquerading as private sellers . After all it is them what make the site innit. If they were to reverse all this nonsense & pay the seller, let's say 10%-15% on top of the sold price, this could easily be funded by charging legitimate business sellers another 20%-30%  . . . . . Maybe then all this moaning & whinging from traders trading unlawfully will stop & they will no longer feel the need to bite the hand that feeds 'em.

Just sayin' like.

[moldosgifts]

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@banditfrenzy wrote:

I think ebay should seriously consider actually paying traders masquerading as private sellers . After all it is them what make the site innit. If they were to reverse all this nonsense & pay the seller, let's say 10%-15% on top of the sold price, this could easily be funded by charging legitimate business sellers another 20%-30%  . . . . . Maybe then all this moaning & whinging from traders trading unlawfully will stop & they will no longer feel the need to bite the hand that feeds 'em.

Just sayin' like.

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i really hope your being sarcastic. 

[millcottage]

My sales have stopped dead since the buyers fee was introduced.

Thus I have stopped listing anything else on eBay.

Now selling via other outlets where I can.

No longer buying anything on eBay. Why should I give them a buyers fee or commission on business sales when they have treated a loyal seller/buyer who had been on platform for 25 years like this?

ebay this is not the way to treat long term customers.