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.