eBay

jamesgolfclub · ‎04-01-2025

So a few months back EBay told us and are still telling us it free to sell. And it was but only for a few months. They are now just adding the fees to the price you list at so it NOT FREE TO SELL any more - it’s just the selling fees wrapped up in another guise. Also they are now keeping the buyers money (and making even more income on the interest on that!) until the item has been delivered! This is a great way to repay your loyal sellers base - well done EBay! Dumped after being a top seller for 21 years.

cobwebcottage · ‎04-01-2025

'NOT FREE TO SELL any more'

It's free to sell ( private). Buyers pay a small fee if buying from a private seller.

Have you read the other posts and 1000's of replies on the subject?

jamesgolfclub · ‎04-01-2025

Don’t agree - the new fees just inflate my price to the buyer so it’s no different to a selling fee

sarahphotogirl · ‎07-01-2025

No the SELLER is paying the fee so its like the insertion fee but this time you are bever getting 70% off!!

darkstar-auctions · ‎10-02-2025

I want to list an item for 99.99, because that's the price I know it will sell at. Buyers now see the price up for ~£104. Therefore, I have to REDUCE my price to ~£95. I AM PAYING THE FEES! The only difference now is that I have zero control over them, eBay can change them at any time, including when my listing is live, and they can pretend they don't affect me.

That's on top of having to pay for sponsorship for some categories to get any views at all, and pay double if you want sponsorship that actually does more than show your listing in the middle of the results where it used to be for free.

There is a term for what eBay are doing: (look down the page, because I assume eBay will block me if I use the actual term which contains a swear word)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

Source: I've been selling on here for 25 years. I suspect this may be my last.

thetimetower · ‎11-02-2025

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papso22 · ‎11-02-2025

Whatever sellers want to describe the fee as, contractually, legally, and commercially, it's a fee charged to buyers.

Any faffing about to change prices to give an end result that the seller perceives is acceptable to buyers, is entirely their choice. It does not make it a selling fee.

crg_music · ‎11-02-2025

It was only truly free for a couple of months, for the previous 25 odd years there was always a fee just paid by the seller so strictly speaking it is currently free to sell but ebay dropped the ball in giving that couple of fee free months and not stating that it was limited time rather than just flipping from seller to buyer fees overnight.

darkstar-auctions · ‎11-02-2025

@crg_music wrote:
It was only truly free for a couple of months, for the previous 25 odd years there was always a fee just paid by the seller so strictly speaking it is currently free to sell but ebay dropped the ball in giving that couple of fee free months and not stating that it was limited time rather than just flipping from seller to buyer fees overnight.

Yeah, that is true. It's just galling that it's being presented in the way it is. And you just know they won't stay at 4%+70p for long (I've been here long enough to remember when they first introduced final value fees).

It also seems unfair that they're not applied to foreign private sellers' listings, I hope that's temporary.

I've worked out a strategy to deal with it anyway, so that I can list at the price I was without having to accept less money to account for the fees.

authentic-by-design · ‎11-02-2025

I am confused as I thought the BUYER PROTECTION FEE was starting 4th Feb but I cannot see it on any of my listings at all. I have looked at my listings on another account and nothing showing at all. Is this is soft roll-out or am I missing something. Any advice welcome

darkstar-auctions · ‎11-02-2025

@authentic-by-design wrote:
I am confused as I thought the BUYER PROTECTION FEE was starting 4th Feb but I cannot see it on any of my listings at all. I have looked at my listings on another account and nothing showing at all. Is this is soft roll-out or am I missing something. Any advice welcome

I found out the hard way: if you go to edit your live auctions (not sure if it's just price or not) it'll then show you the buyer protection fee before you commit to the edit and will apply it at that point.

mostlylamps · ‎11-02-2025

Holding OUR MONEY in their bank account to earn interest on OUR MONEY!!! There is no need for any kind of "buyer protection" on any of my listings because I always use signed for postage which I include in the price of my items, so ebay are making money off the buyers that are already "protected". Dishonest at best! Yet another reason why this once great platform is losing sellers on mass and now they'll lose buyers too because they have better platforms to go to without paying the buyer tax

lucy_farmer · ‎11-02-2025

'I have looked at my listings on another account and nothing showing at all.....'

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It hasn't been rolled out to all categories yet; I've looked at your items (obviously from the 'buyer's side') and theres no hint of buyer fees yet.

But there is something I've not seen before: next to the price- £4.95- it says , (in brackets and a paler grey font) 4.95/Unit.

This is next to most of the Brand New beauty products (where you may imagine there'd be more than one available - well, if the seller were a business that is....) but it's also next to some of the second hand clothing (where there wouldn't be more available)

I take it you didn't put this there yourself, authentic-by-d. ? Did this just pop up when you listed stuff? After you listed stuff?

It's new to me....!