Flat Fee Buyer Protection?

[armadalebooks]

If there is now a flat fee of 10p for buyer protection why are all my buyer protection fees 17p, they have gone up??? I only sell my books for 99p...they are dearer now for the buyer...

[papso22]

There is a flat fee plus a %fee dependent on the item price.

[sml192]

As stated there is still a variable fee (up to 7%) depending on item price which hasn't changed.  The fixed fee used to be 'Up to 10p' (generally 8p for most items) and is now a flat 10p.

So you should only be seeing an increase of around 2p.

[thesmokingrunner]

The Buyer Protection Fee is calculated as a fixed (flat) fee plus a variable percentage of the item's selling price, as detailed on the Help&Support page https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/buying/paying-items/buyer-protection-fee?id=5594&st=3&pos=2&query=Buyer%...

The page gives the following information:

When purchasing from UK-based private sellers, the Buyer Protection fee is calculated as:

• A flat fee of £0.10 per item, and
• 7% of the item price up to £20, and
• 4% of any portion of the item price from £20 to £300, and
• 2% of any portion of the item price from £300 to £4,000

so for a 99p book the BPF is calculated as £0.10 + (0.99 *7/100) [7% of 99p] = £0.10+£0.07 = £0.17

The new 10p flat fee came into force today, I believe, having previously varied between 8p and 10p. The result of this is that the price of a 99p book has been increased by 2p.

[thesmokingrunner]

We were typing at the same time @sml192  ... : )

[armadalebooks]

Thanks everyone for replying...Kind of explains things for me...Cheers

[rw190269]

When the buyer protection fee came in, I carefully priced all my goods and postage to hit price points of 99p, or £1.99 or £2.99 etc. So for a book at 99p, I priced it as £0.99 plus buyer protection 14p plus postage £3.86, total £4.99. For something at £1.79 The buyer protection fee was 22p so I could charge £3.99 postage, total £5.98.

Now without warning eBay have messed everything up by a few pence, so all my price points look more expensive.