01-10-2024 1:34 PM - edited 01-10-2024 1:44 PM
From the sky news article here which is obviously a press release https://news.sky.com/story/ebay-selling-fees-are-scrapped-to-boost-to-reselling-13225638
It seems clear ebay is following in the footsteps of other selling marketplaces by adding fees for buyers in the early new year, but since fees remain in place for business sellers adding another fee on top of this is another hit to our bottom line.
We will now be expected to absorb the buyers fee and our own business selling fee (and shop fees etc).
This seems crazy to me - although eBay say it'll be 'small' , if it's 8% like elsewhere that's a massive hit for us to take. Yes it's for the buyers but we all know prices will drop because of it - for example a 350 item will now cost 379 to the buyer with an 8% fee that is currently used by another platform, so ofc sellers will drop the initial price so that the item actually sells and to offset this.
Fine for private sellers who have no fees to compensate, but insane for business sellers with hefty fvf and shop fees already
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28-01-2025 7:01 PM
I always advise people to read the Selling Plans carefully and think about which is economic for what you might list there 🙂 Don't just jump on the 'Special' 😉 Offer.
28-01-2025 10:03 PM
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28-01-2025 10:46 PM
..and with growing numbers of sellers and buyers with sales growing exponentially as were profits. All because it was EASY and CHEAP to use and ebay didn't control every aspect of every transaction.
28-01-2025 11:04 PM
Hi amazonharvey, I'm really not trying to be rude here, but..... paragraphs are your friends!
A bit of spacing makes long posts an awful lot easier to read 😊
28-01-2025 11:05 PM
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28-01-2025 11:13 PM
It is also a generational thing, the 20 somethings are not interested in glass, stamps or whatever else, and as the years pass less and less people will show an interest. Maybe they will inherit someone's collection and either throw it away or sell it for next to nothing on Facebook because they don't know what they have got or no one wants that old stamp collection anymore.
Not sure I would agree with this, I know of kiddies as young as 8 who are avid stamp collectors and some in their 40's collecting toy cars or toy figures. I think there will always be " collectors" for so many things, the only way it would die out is if they become " unavailable" for whatever reason, and then those who do will demand higher prices etc.
28-01-2025 11:32 PM
03-02-2025 5:42 PM
Folks check out my angry thread "EBay Is Conning Us". I've suspended all my items today and will most probably be moving to other platforms. Its a mess and was far simpler a few years back. Private sellers will be leaving in droves as its just not worth it if you sell low price items. eBay is moving to a Business only site, they don't want the small seller. They don't even respond to our concerns. No stars.
03-02-2025 5:52 PM
FYI for anyone who missed it - they are now saying Buyer Fees will not apply in all categories tomorrow. Instead, they will start with Electronics and do a phased rollout "in the following weeks."
03-02-2025 8:21 PM
What exactly do buyers need to be protected from ?. If the item is a no show, broken or INAD then there's the return system/not received. If its a complicated scam chances are there new protection won't be much help either.
15-02-2025 1:10 PM
As a regular buyer on ebay for over 22 years, I'm really disheartened by ebay's new move to push their unfairly disproportionate fees onto the buyers. Furthermore, the way these fees are levied on the buyer, now makes lower value purchases no longer worthwhile. And the sheer audacity of ebay to criticise AMEX for the 4% fees the credit card provider charges! Honestly, the hypocrisy is breath-taking.
I've noticed that Ebay don't ever seem to quite get it right when they bring out new changes like this. It seems they'll make changes, review the outcome, then modify it (often close to the original design), as a reactive measure to a detrimental outcome. Basically live trial-and-error testing using buyes/sellers as the guinea pigs, rather than doing some proper offline impact testing and customer feedback analysis.
And then when we actually look at what we get for this buyer protection...it's an overpriced scam. 24/7 customer support?! It's a joke! It's so, so, so hard to get to the option to actually speak with an agent. Like a *bleep* nightmare!
Paid after delivery - do I really give two hoots? What does that do for me as a buyer? Why am I paying my money so ebay can hold onto cash and delay paying out to the seller?!
Secure transactions. Well...that should be taken for granted.
Honestly, the fees buyers have to pay are a joke. Absolute greed from ebay, which I'm sure will come at a detrimental price for sellers and in turn ebay itself. So all three parties suffer because of some idiots who push it too far. The buyer loses out (higher prices), the seller loses out (less custom), and ebay lose out (again, less custom). Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to work out that this is a very, very risky move by ebay. Idiots!
15-02-2025 1:47 PM
15-02-2025 2:03 PM
15-02-2025 2:03 PM
You're forgettng that the CEO has to bring in changes so he looks good to the shareholders. Though a better way of doing that would be to do things that help the share price to rise.
His objective is to continue getting millions. For himself.
These boards are so little visited that comments here will have zero impact. Trustpilot and social media, those have greater visibility.
15-02-2025 5:04 PM
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15-02-2025 5:59 PM
"buyer protection should be for all big boys little boys and the ones who
know how to play the system .after 20 years I have met my fair share .but
the difference is they get eBay protection for free but us little people
who are what holds eBay together never once do"
Business sellers don't get protection for free, irrespective of what eBay say. It is a buyer's right when buying from a business seller under the Consumer Rights Act - 2015, and has always been the case long before the BPF was thought of. That was the message eBay gave to business sellers to try and convince business sellers they were getting a 'perk'. The vast majority of fees, which is what holds eBay together, is paid by business sellers.