How will the new buyer protection fees affect auction listings?

[ereiam-jh]

I knew eBay's generosity  wouldn't last for long. I don't much care about the fees; I just wish they'd make up their minds and stop changing things around.

How will the new fees affect auction listings? Will auction listings be exempt ( I doubt it,) or will buyers need to pay more than what they bid? If so, I can foresee a lot of bidders refusing to pay when they they realise they need to pay more than they thought.

[dumalucky]

I have zero respect for Ebay these days.. FBMP gets some of my business now..I just wish a global company would rip off Ebays old style of selling and I would jump ship

[chelseachrisuk]

What do you think about the simplified postage?I sell records, well used to be able to. The simple ebay postage for a single comes up at £2.70, that's £1.15 more than royal mail 2nd class postage.A scandal / rip off call it what you want.It's disgraceful.Fortunately you can over ride it with advanced settings, but ebay does not remember my preferred option so I have to go thru the same rigmarole every time.

[dumalucky]

Yes.. Same for me… Ebay keeps on taking control over everything.. I am sick of it.. I looked into the ParcelForce labels Ebay can provide
for large parcels.. Around 50+ higher in price and only £50 compensation . when in fact Parcel Force direct is far cheaper and £150 compensation as standard. I use Parcelforce website not Ebay for big parcels.

[edwardian-dreams]

EBay have the cheek to decide that when you’re relisting or sell similar or even revising that you should go for simple delivery so it defaults to it !!

no, I spent ages doing the custom postage thing and I expect that to be replicated on a relist  not being forced to go through the rigmarole again 

honestly

 can’t get the staff these days

oh

Maybe that’s the problem 

what with no sales or barely any  and a headache to operate on here they’re cruising very very close to losing LOADS of customers 

sometimes enough is enough and people will take their chances elsewhere if they don’t get their act together 

[dumalucky]

Its been the case for perhaps years that what ever changes Ebay implements , they are badly thought out and badly implemented.
Its incredible that a company so big can be such a shambles. The website has had so many upgrades overlaid onto its original format that
its has loads of issues and confussing contradictions snd also when it comes to the Ebay representatives.. Well... some are ok,, but on the whole they are a joke to deal with and might as well be replaced with AI as they have no authority to help users.

[dion5feb2016]

I don’t use EBay for parcel force, for the reasons you mentioned, I go direct. Also I have had 2 instances recently whereby I had to cancel Royal Mail labels bought through eBay using existing funds which I still have not received a refund for. Royal Mail say EBay responsible for sending the refund, eBay say Royal Mail, contacted Packlink who say they don’t recognise the tracking numbers, hence no refund for postage. Am going via Royal Mail website from now on and paying via PayPal as is anything goes wrong PayPal always help very efficiently and sort things for me! Thanks EBay for yet another stupid system you have in place.

[dion5feb2016]

Very soon users, particularly sellers will get wise to all this, I am getting to the point where I am thinking this just isn’t worth it, the stupid buyer protection, now some idiotic postage scheme (which I won’t use), what next! Do they actually want private sellers, I don’t think so except they do to make money from them indirectly by charging buyers a fee. I don’t pay an extra fee when ai go to a shop yet if something is wrong I can take it back and be refunded, oh hang in didn’t that used to be the way eBay worked without charging buyers extra!!!!!!