If selling is free and buying has payment protection, can cash on collection avoid fees ?

[beyourb3st]

The reason I ask is because before, no matter what, buyer paid the entire price agreed, seller paid the fees. Now buyer paid the entire greed price, buyer pays the fees. 

So cash on collection must be allowed surely ?

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/posting-items/setting-postage-options/local-collection?id=4181

[lucy_farmer]

'Fraid not ☹️

Cash on collection has been 'outlawed' for several months now.

In order to swap details and address etc in order to collect a sale, the buyer must complete the sale including paying for it , through the ebay system.

[beyourb3st · Accepted solution]

Which essentially means selling is not free.

[effing_wif_figs]

Hypothetically. There's nothing stopping you cancelling the sale after accepting cash on collection. That's a complete hypothetical and shouldn't be encouraged though... 

[beyourb3st]

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@effing_wif_figs wrote:

Hypothetically. There's nothing stopping you cancelling the sale after accepting cash on collection. That's a complete hypothetical and shouldn't be encouraged though... 

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I have to say I would (because I do) wonder if the buyer and seller can agree they are happy at the point without the buyer protection fee and waive all need for ebay in the purchase process. 

Hypothetically and only on the basic of buyer protection requirement being unneeded because a buyer can be 100% happy at the point of collection ergo no protection would need to be provided, nor charged for.