Changes to your Multi-buy discount tool access - Private sellers can't offer multi-buy

[aksluk]

If adding one more fee wasn't enough they are now taking away multi-buy features from private sellers. 

"We’re writing to let you know about a change to our Multi-buy discount tool, which you’ve used in the last 6 months. As a reminder, the tool allows you to offer discounts based on the number of items a buyer selects from your listing. From 20 Jan 2025, Multi-buy will become exclusive to business sellers, and no longer be available to private sellers."

[kath3735_wxmjn]

Sorry, i was actually agreeing with you in principle but especially because of their profile, re reading my comment it does not come across with what i was really meaning.  The profile is just really amazing!!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

years ago i fell in love with a really nice top and i ended up over a period buying 23 of them, mainly of one size but different colours, patterns and some sequinned.  They were brilliant for going out and holidays, trouble is i got too big for them and have now sold most of them but i only can be bothered to put a couple on at a time, i used to relist them then discovered sell similar!    They are all used though!  Now i am busy looking for a larger size in the same item and it is incredibly hard to find, not helped by E bays wonderful search system!! 

[kath3735_wxmjn]

they are only 'beating' other sellers who are cheating the system and i for one as a private seller do not blame them and do not take it personally.

[theelench]

Sorry but I dis-agree, they are specifically 'beating' other business sellers who are cheating the system.  But far too often refer to them as private sellers.

How difficult can it be to add parenthesis or call them what they are, Business Sellers.  I see absolutely no need to to constantly re-iterate the fiction that Private Sellers have anything to do with a dispute between business sellers and ebay.

Private Sellers have nothing to do with the problem and should be left out of it.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

but if they refer to them as business sellers then they are not being accurate, as they are listed as private sellers.  Maybe we should find a new name for the ones who are businesses disguised as private so no one is upset - how about con sellers???

[johnwash1]

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@kath3735_wxmjn wrote:

years ago i fell in love with a really nice top and i ended up over a period buying 23 of them, mainly of one size but different colours, patterns and some sequinned.  They were brilliant for going out and holidays, trouble is i got too big for them and have now sold most of them but i only can be bothered to put a couple on at a time, i used to relist them then discovered sell similar!    They are all used though!  Now i am busy looking for a larger size in the same item and it is incredibly hard to find, not helped by E bays wonderful search system!! 

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How about adding in an extra length of material at the sides, perhaps in a contrasting colour?  But I'm not offering, I wouldn't qualify for even the beginners' edition of the Great British Sewing Bee.

[theelench]

No, I wouldn't be accurate and honest business sellers definitely wouldn't like being tarred with the same brush as them.

So why should honest private sellers have put up with exactly the same degree of mis-representation because they have highjacked our ebay definition?

"Private" seller makes it reasonably plain that they are not what they are pretending to be  --  so long as it's used consistently.

If we're looking for an alternative I think perhaps Fraudster Sellers makes what they are pretty obvious that they are up to no good for either of the other properly registered groups of sellers. 

[lucy_farmer]

'If we're looking for an alternative I think perhaps Fraudster Sellers makes what they are pretty obvious that they are up to no good ...'

How about Pirate Sellers?

[*devils.advocate*]

Cheats, imposters, low-lives, scum?

Parasites?

Can’t use the word ‘Seller’ in any way as that would be an insult to true private and to proper business sellers.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I was at school when they taught needlework and i am still no good at it!  Pains me to even have to hem a pair of trousers.   I will take the easy way and just get some new tops....

[thetimetower]

Excellent news!

[myriad*seller]

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@lucy_farmer wrote:

'If we're looking for an alternative I think perhaps Fraudster Sellers makes what they are pretty obvious that they are up to no good ...'

How about Pirate Sellers?

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People would just think that was a typo or that you dictated the post and your device misheard you... 

[vintique*violet]

I read ( on here in a post but can't find it ) that eBay mentioned non - professional sellers... what on earth is that supposed to mean and who is it applying too? 

I am a private seller , in no way a business or would pretend to be - I would not like to be referred to as a " non-professional seller" ... what actually does that conjure up in peoples minds? 

[theelench]

I did see "non-professional sellers" in an ebay announcement not so long ago, thought it odd at the time but didn't linger over it.  Could it have been in the one about Simple delivery and Compulsory Payment Holds?  There was a lot about private sellers in that.

But now you mention it again it's not, as I thought at the time, just a way of fudging the description, it's directly lumping the 2 together as the same type of seller. 

And as you say, what would 'non-professional' conjure up in the minds of many buyers?

[vintique*violet]

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/non-professional

The only  info  I can find is on the above site re non-professional " users"... and on reading that  page, it appears ( to me) it will be for private sellers and not for businesses. 

Edit - had to try to add the link twice. 

[twofourdeltasurplus]

Boo Hoo, my heart is pumping purple urine

About time they cracked down on "private" sellers and took more perks away from them

[the-nutwood-collection]

What about 'privateer sellers'?  A pirate attacks and robs with no authority to do so, whereas a privateer is authorised to attack and rob, and the authority that grants the permission takes a cut of the loot.

Private sellers on eBay have eBay's permission and encouragement to attack and rob business sellers.  eBay used to take a cut of the loot - but not any more!!

[lucy_farmer]

Yes! '...privateer'...... kind of a more polite version of 'pirate'. 🙂

I think Sir Francis Drake was a 'privateer'. The rest of the world thought he was a right old thieving git, but Good Queen Bess thought he was the bees knees :-))

[*vyolla*]

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@abrahamtoast wrote:

I agree that something needs done about misuse of multi-item listings, both by business sellers AND private sellers.

However, there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Used properly, multi-item listings can be a perfect fit for a private seller trying to shift a collection of very similar, but slightly different, items. I have a number of these listings running at the moment, offering buyers the choice of many different issues of various popular magazines.

Too many business sellers on here just want to tar all private sellers with the same brush, and don't stop to consider the circumstances. Many (possibly most) of us are just trying to shift unwanted items, and we really don't need the hostility.

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Are you talking about variation listings though?

I don't believe that listing format is being taken away from private sellers. 

[the_book_seekers]

How about rogue sellers?