Have 80% off sellers fees been discontinued?

[alfieoscar74]

I have not had any discounts on sellers fees since February, yet friends and family are still receiving them. Is anyone having the same experience?

[lehavre98]

Me too!

[360watches]

I do wonder if they have done the maths and thought about this properly, if this was a move because people are selling their iphones, but 80%+ ends up not doing it, along with a host of other items because they don't have their usual discount, they have lost out and annoyed their sellers...

[1956glyn]

I am certainly not brainwashed.    The bugs glitches etc are another discussion.  There is indeed a lot wrong with the site 😣  Thankfully somehow i am still on the old pages and not the seller hub.

No one is forced to use Packlink....i never do

As a seller i do indeed get what you are saying and get my fair share of awkward buyers too.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

E Bay is a business and businesses are in it to make profit!  You have a choice to take your business somewhere else, no one is forcing you to sell on this site.  We would all like the fees to be less but they are what they are.  When they reach a point i am not prepared to pay then i will leave!

[lehavre98]

I'm hoping that to whine remains free! And, that is doesn't become compulsory to read whines, nor to feel compelled to reply to them! Then again, probably shouldn't have mentioned it. Don't want to give eBay more money grubbing ideas!

[1956glyn]

Has anyone else also noticed this?

There are a few categories that i browse very often.....since yesterday when everyone stopped receiving the usual promotion off fees.....there are a lot less new listings

Maybe people are not prepared to list if being charged full fees?

We probably will but may be a bit more selective in what we list eg rarer items

[pg_kicks]

If you contact customer services and get somebody decent in the UK they will be able to point out why they thought you were a business (indirectly), you have to raise a few flags for them to think of an account being a business its not just meh maybe that one account could be so lets force an upgrade type of situation.

Also the removal will be nothing to do with a new phone being released, those would be a tiny fraction of the sales eBay have on the promo and the amount it loses wouldnt make it worth its while. Hoping its a whole change in promos that were hinted at the open event but probably just eBay doing tiny changes and they'll eb back.

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

There are many posts about this today 21/9/24 and it's been said that no-one has received the offer.

This is not correct.

I have just scanned one of my saved searches and i saw some high priced items from 2 different sellers  i know.They only ever list when they get an offer and have been doing so for years.

They do as they do as all of their items are between 600 and 3k,hence a good saving.

I  know both sellers from another forum i frequent and have chatted with both many times for years (hobby).

Maybe the offer has been "released" later than normal ?.

[andrewcoopz]

I was also thinking "where has the 80% off fees gone " weirdly i got one of the 6th and then another on the 8th of this month. In theory i would get something every other friday.  But i had not recieved anything on this occasion. 

Strange 

[dougbat20]

That doesn't surprise me at all... over 13%, nearly 13.5% once you've added in the regulatory rubbish, of course people aren't going to sell at that fee level!

And remember with no sellers there is nothing for buyers to buy.

I for one will not list anything new this weekend, full fees are too much. Imo it should be a straight 5%, no promos, no +30p, no regulatory bull*bleep*, just a flat 5% no matter whether you are private or business. 

That will bring around more listings and also more consistent listing figures, without having to wait for some sort of offer.

[360watches]

I'm the same - Live support did make me laugh though as their suggestion was just add whatever the fees would be on top of my price; like I wouldn't sell for what it's worth anyway or somebody would just pay 13% more aha. Also listings are 5p for business accounts not 30p, and I just said I don't think that's gonna cut it on 14.9% fees In that category for business 

[ett1954]

"Also listings are 5p for business accounts not 30p" - Not so, the 5p is for paid shop accounts, whether they be private or business shops, once the paid allocation for the shop level has been used.

Furthermore a non-vat registered business seller (which the majority are) pays 35p for a straight forward listing.

[360watches]

Sorry I wasn't clear, eBay offered my Business account 5p listings for 24 the weekend instead of the usual listing fees, but my business is high value, low quantity, so that is really no help

[tallboy860]

i just sold a pair of binoculars on ebay for £590 and it cost me about £80 to do it.  it makes me quite angry thinking about how much it cost to sell and i wont be doing it again! i do wish buyers would look around other selling sites as i had it listed elewhere for ages much cheaper and not a sniff. i never had the 80% off selling fee's to start with!

[360watches]

Well that is what you are paying for I suppose; you had it listed elsewhere and didn't get a sniff; eBay has 20 million buyers and the largest market available and your item sold there... It is frustrating, but you can almost guarantee your item will sell on eBay at least, but I won't be using it much now with fees so high unless their promotions come back

[1956glyn]

I get what you are saying BUT they did sell on Ebay.   You say you had them listed elsewhere for ages and much cheaper.   Is there much difference between what you got on Ebay and what you were offering them for "much cheaper" elsewhere?

To be honest i do not use or bother looking on other selling sites apart from Ebay 😞

[tallboy860]

i understand but it should never cost £80 to sell a pair of binoculars online should it! and as to how much cheaper out of ebay id have split the diff  so the buer could have saved £40-50. they took a % out of my postage as well! £12,95 which is what it cot so its not like i was trying to rip people off with that. like i said, i wont be selling expensive items on ebay again and will try everyother avenue first, ebay now is a last resort!

[kath3735_wxmjn]

surely you should be angry at yourself for not doing due diligence and working out what fees would be and how much you would get as actual payment?

[pg_kicks]

Seems pretty cheap compared to an auction house which would be closer to 20/25% and better value than the cheaper sites where they'd still be sitting. Whilst I'd love it to be cheaper I'd not want it to be full to scammer or have such little traffic like the cheaper sites, its swings and roundabouts.

just for future reference putting UK Only as the first 2 words in your item title is a huge negative, the first 4 words are the most inportant things and you are spoiling it by using it for postage which wouldn't stop a fool abroad buying it.

[tallboy860]

well since brexit i dont like selling abroad and thats my choice, it costs more for one! unfortunately people dont read descriptions much so you have to spell it out in the title. at the end of the day doesnt matter how you cut it its gotten too expensive to sell on ebay, people are leaving in their millions you only need to look at ebay after 7pm in the the UK and its all vintage honey pots and charity shops