Ebay's new Buyers' protection fee from the 4th Feb

[rsbrickshop]

I'm a private seller. Items I sell are between £2.90 - £10. Is It just me or will ebay's new Buyers' protection fee from the 4th Feb make it near impossible to sell competitively. A few months ago Ebay got rid of Sellers' fees for private sellers, which was a welcome move. But this new change and getting rid of multi-buy discount for private sellers will make it worse than it was with the original fees.

[snowylilliput-0]

That depends on what you are selling , You can hardly put a fragile item into a jiffy bag . Packing Peanuts are not always really available for free as many off the online firms like Amazon do not use them . 

[jjambadger27]

Do the buyer fees apply to listings even if they were listed before February 4, or just new listings from Feb 4 onwards?

[buffster1963]

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@jjambadger27 wrote:

Do the buyer fees apply to listings even if they were listed before February 4, or just new listings from Feb 4 onwards?

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It will be applied to all listings. 

[reasonable-robert]

no on or after jj

[luby_vintage-247]

So if you list for £10 but you receive an offer of £5.00 the buyer fee is the same ?

[christiesmusicstore]

 It will still be +4% and 75p added on for the buyer to pay and there is talk of Mandatary Tracked Shipping. 

[snowylilliput-0]

Does anybody if the 4% is also being added to the postage charge sellers put on there listing or not . It makes when you try and work out what you listing go live with if we do not know . 

[vjbuystuff]

I believe the 4% is added on-top of the total transaction value

[*devils.advocate*]

The 4% + 75p applies only to the item value.

It won't apply to the postage element.

[psmi4290]

If that really is the case then those who list as 'post free' (i.e. post included) would be pay 4% on the postage. As with so many other questions he problem is that ebay has not been clear about the details. For example, what happens as regards items already listed when the new fees come in? Will the prices of all pre-existing listings be automatically raised by ebay by 4% + 75p?

[*devils.advocate*]

If that really is the case then those who list as 'post free' (i.e. post included) would be pay 4% on the postage.

Correct, yes - basically, don't list with free post.

As with so many other questions he problem is that ebay has not been clear about the details.

They never have been, they're not now and they never will be.

Will the prices of all pre-existing listings be automatically raised by ebay by 4% + 75p?

Yes.

[christiesmusicstore]

eBay has created this problem.The finer details have not been communicated to sellers and this need to be made clear and precise to us all.

[*devils.advocate*]

eBay has created this problem

Some see it as a problem but buyers on other sites are used to this.

On one hand, many sellers see an inherent problem but others don't because their buyers are used to it.

Depends which camp you sit in.

Anyways, Simplistic Delivery is  a far greater problem - that's what sellers need to get their head around.

And eBay have never communicated anything properly - never.

[podlingsmum2007]

The buyer protection fee is basically giving your dinner money to the school bully 🤔

[1956glyn]

Today i clicked to get the address for a recent sale and a load of stuff came up about simple delivery ....looked so confusing 😞   From the looks of it they defo wanted me to buy my postage online and use Evri even though on my listing it says RM only.    Several clicks more and i got back to the usual page showing the delivery address.

[chantrymusic2016]

There still seems to be some confusion as to whether this will apply to items listed before February 4th or just the ones listed on the 4th and after.  Do we have a definitive answer to this as yet?

[podlingsmum2007]

See message 383

[chantrymusic2016]

I'm afraid that's not all that helpful considering it's then contradicted by message 384. 

[podlingsmum2007]

What will happen to my existing listings?

For UK-based private sellers, the Buyer Protection fee will immediately be added to all existing Buy-It-Now listings (excluding Vehicles, Classified Ads, and Property). The fee will be added to Auction and Buy-It-Now listings created on or after 4 February, 2025, including relisted listings.

[chantrymusic2016]

Thank you.  That helps. So auctions listed before the 4th don't have it added to them.  That's interesting to know.  I wonder how many auctions will be listed on February 3rd!!