Is BPF included in best offers?

[crofty2267]

I have just put Best Offers on my listings and yesterday had a couple of offers which were very low but also irregular amounts. 

I am now assuming that when an offer is made to the seller on a "Best Offer" item, the BPF is included in the offer, which in my case yesterday would make the offers I received ridiculously low.  I did decline them, but just wonder if my assumption is correct.

Thanks for any help.

[tressygirl]

If a buyer offers you for example,  £10,  you receive less,  as the Buyer Protection Fee is taken off.

If you offer the buyer £10 for your item,  the buyer pays more,  they pay the BPF.

@crofty2267 

[crofty2267]

Ahh thank you tressygirl.  As I thought it is included, so if I had accepted the low offer, I would have received even less.

[barry.110]

I think the offer you got was the buyers offer minus the BPF.

Using tressygirl's example if the buyer puts in an offer of £10 I think EBay takes the BPF off before they give you the offer. So you will see an offer of £8.89.

If you send an offer of £10 to the buyer EBay will add the BPF to it before they send it to the buyer. so the Buyer will see the offer of £11.15.

[sml192]

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@crofty2267 wrote:

Ahh thank you tressygirl.  As I thought it is included, so if I had accepted the low offer, I would have received even less.

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No, that is not correct.  As @barry.110 states, the offer amount you see excludes the BPF which is why you are seeing odd amounts.  If you add 4% + 72p to the offers you have received then you should find that it brings them back to a round figure. 

[*vyolla*]

All I know is, until eBay address and come up with a fix for this, if the seller accepts an offer then, effectively,  they end up paying the buyer fee element out of that offer price.

But, if the seller sends the buyer an offer then the buyer fee is added to that offer.