Change to Buyer Protection Fee from 11 November 2025

[moonlight-rhapsody]

In case anyone hasn't noticed ebay's latest announcement about BPF, here it is below:

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Changing the fixed fee portion of the Buyer Protection fee

On Tuesday 11 November, we’re updating the fixed fee portion of Buyer Protection from up to £0.10 to a flat rate of £0.10. That means easier calculations and more transparency – nice and simple. This change will automatically be applied to private sellers’ existing fixed price listings on Tuesday 11 November. You can review and adjust the prices of any of your active listings at any time. 

Please note: For private sellers, this update will mean an increase of £0.01 to £0.03 to any existing fixed price listings that automatically renew every 30 days. 

This update is all about making things simpler and more transparent for you. And if you have any questions, our customer support team is here 24/7 to help.

• Selling

[lucy_farmer]

Wonder if this has anything to do with the confusion at the start of the BPF etc. where the fixed fee was supposed to be 75p, but usually seemed to end up as 72p?

('cos there's the missing 3p right there.....)

[department28]

 'You can review and adjust the prices of any of your active listings at any time.' 

Thanks eBay - I'm sure many of us will be looking forward to spending more time fiddling around with our prices to make them look sensible, after you have interfered with them yet again... 🙄

[coyotetower]

"nice and simple"

surely this is satire on their part. Every single part of the platform is now confusing and expensive. They keep rolling out more promotion fees. Now if i don't promote offsite or shops i'm getting penalised as they keep attaching things like "more chance of being on our deals page" with spending more money than u want.

[suelel1968]

"This update is all about making things simpler and more transparent for you"

"For private sellers‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌, this update will mean an increase of £0.01 to £0.03"  

Firstly, eBay, BPF is for buyers! Perhaps eBay could start explaining buyer changes to the buyers! Have a buyer update banner and tell them "transparently" what you are doing.

I'm with @coyotetower , there is nothing simple about eBay anymore. Well there is on poorly named "thing"...

[coyotetower]

Its super confusing and what's worse is I'm sure a lot of us are being double charged. I notice some times I get charged one type of promotional fee along with another.  Ebays business model now relies heavily on charging people to even sell. Listing with all upgrades is no longer enough for u to sell your stuff. You now need to optin to all their extra pay per click services. Went from 8p min click to 20p min clip. Suggesting 54p a click? are they for real? £12,000 ive paid in fees in past year to ebay. I guess i'm the fool end of the day. Yeh i made profits but ebay made loads too for doing absolutely nothing. The introduction of AI automation is going to make this even harder to sell on.

[department28]

Why Are We Making This Change?

'This change will give you more transparency and simplicity when you calculate your listing prices. 

By moving to a flat £0.10 fixed fee, it will be easier for you to calculate the exact Buyer Protection fee for every listing.' 

eBay must've been absolutely gutted when they realised they would have to increase the price in order to make things easier for us... 🤣

[beengoneages]

Messing again ebay your a pain in the arsenal everything that was 9.99 is 10.01 now, & the simple delivery is far from it.

[department28]

When eBay introduced the BPF in February, those of us that like our item prices to end in 99p, or round pounds, had to change all our prices. In July, they reduced the flat fee & fiddled about with the variable fee. Today, they have been tinkering with it again, making this the third time private sellers have had to spend time adjusting these odd/unattractive-looking prices. 😖

eBay say:-

'This one-time adjustment will result in a price increase between £0.01 and £0.03 on your existing fixed price listings. These are the listings that automatically renew every 30 days until the item sells or you end the listing.'

Is this truly a 'one-time adjustment'? Or only until the next time..?!

[punzel9072]

This update is all about making things simpler and more transparent for you

...well no, it's about squeezing even more money out of everybody - sellers if they adjust their prices downwards, and buyers who ill have to pay more.

[hummingbirdbeauty]

Why wasn't a notification sent out to each seller or put on our selling page? I've woken up this morning to ALL of my listings having odd prices when I've just gone through and updated the postage on ALL my listings after ebay put them all as medium parcels! It's exhausting having to repeatedly do these updates. Why not just implement for new listings or at least let us know!

[hummingbirdbeauty]

SOOO frustrating!!

[storm97ab]

I spent an hour to eBay customer services and they knew nothing about the price increase until I found this discussion and quoted it to them.

We should have been told about it before or even after it. I now need to spend hours changing all the prices on my listings. How to annoy private sellers again!

I thought eBay would encourage sellers and not frustrate them so much that they find other platforms to sell on. 

Another nail in the coffin.

[ajcorden]

So all the prices are thrown out because it doesn't adjust to the price the buyer pays and now all the listings prices are over the .99p selling points. All done without any notice to anyone, apart from this one post which isn't even on sellers platform and that I had to Google for. Absolutely phenomenal.

So now we'll spend hours going through all the listings to rectify the prices and then in a couple of weeks/months they'll tweak something else to squeeze a penny more from people and throw all the prices off again? What's the point?

Give us a 'Customer pays' price in the 'Revise listings' matrix so we can more quickly amend things without having to calculate every buyer fee manually.

[papso22]

I love how these threads always bring out the businesses trading on private ebay accounts.  Those people who should not be involved in the buyer protection fee at all, or simple delivery for that matter.

Private accounts are for selling unwanted personal possessions/collections.  These are generally used items and one offs, not multiples of new items.

[suelel1968]

@ajcorden Hi, you can do a bulk edit. It only takes seconds really.

[punzel9072]

you can do a bulk edit. It only takes seconds really.

It takes longer than 'seconds'. It might be quick if everything is the same price, but I have spent about 3 hours this morning using bulk edit to adjust my 218 items ranging from £1.55 to £42.12 to get rid of the odd 1, 2 or3 pence that eBay have added onto every item.