When the eBay programmers got to work to add the BPF, they made an incredibly basic error in their calculations. Even more incredibly, it sailed past all of their quality control and compliance staff.
The programmers wrongly assumed that the 75p element was itself to be inclusive of the BPF, instead of totally independent from the 4% element. Therefore, only 72p was added as the fixed, element, as 72p + 4% would equal 75p.
Therefore every single price which includes BPF is wrong by 3p.
Do they intend to fix it? They haven't said, so private sellers don't know whether to amend their listings, to what they should be now, or to wait, in case they need to do it all over again.
It's hard to believe they could be so stupid.
