Is there a current boycott of eBay?

[effing_wif_figs]

My sales dropped from up to 10 a day to either none or 1 or 2 a day and at that, mostly very low value items. I've had a few more expensive sales and some days a few more items will sell but it's usually followed by a drought of a few days. This has all been since 04/02 when the new rules started to drip in. I don't think it's exclusively the BPF as this has only just come in on collectibles, which is most of what I sell.

I can only guess this is down to a boycott of eBay, either organised or not. A lot of people I sell to are also sellers themselves, it's how a lot of collectors work, we sell up to make space and funds. I would buy from eBay regularly with the money I earned but since the changes and me bringing in less money, I haven't bought a single thing due to my surplus money being reduced by so much. 

Obviously I'm expecting the usual answers telling me I need to switch to a business account or telling me if I don't like the changes then I can go elsewhere to which I say I've never bought to sell and my sales are my own collection and that I am looking for alternative platforms. I'm posting this to offer an alternative theory on why items aren't selling as they did as most of the discussion seems to be around whether BPF is putting buyers off or not and not that eBay has essentially handicapped one of their biggest group of buyers by withholding funds from them. 

[brianchesterhorse]

I wont be using them ever again after 20 years. Despite sellers having received goods and had acknowledgement of satisfaction they will now hold funds for 3 weeks to purely make interest on the monies. The excuse? My consignment number/uk national courier company is not recognised on Ebays very limited uk courier database. They can state all they want but its pure corporate greed worsened by the stealth tax of 'buyer protection'. Goodbye and good riddance.

[action_man]

I think anyone with a healthy functioning brain is currently boycotting eBay. With the way they treat people it's a wonder anyone stays.

[hoard-of-arcadia]

It's ironic that all these changes have actually made myself & others start buying and selling on vinted instead.

[goldenwolfman]

There is also e bid, listings there are growing, it’s still slow to sell there but if everyone moved volume over and started searching for things there they would help create a viable alternative. Takes time but what you got to lose?

[edwardian-dreams]

EBay probably boycotted itself once they stopped millions unable to use their app because you need to be able to download iOS 17 plus 

barmy

[sounds_r_us_too]

Ive had enough and im leaving but can i delete my account NO

I cant delete my account as it has funds in £7.49 and the want id before they will release my funds which im not willing to provide 

[zillabudgie]

Hopefully there is boycott of Ebay, the 'decision makers' have ruined it. It will NEVER be the same, mark my words.

[goldenwolfman]

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@sounds_r_us_too wrote:

Ive had enough and im leaving but can i delete my account NO

I cant delete my account as it has funds in £7.49 and the want id before they will release my funds which im not willing to provide 

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Another questionably illegal action. You obviously gave them a bank account to pay into so that should have been sufficient. Maybe you should tell them you are going to complain to the banking ombudsman as they are holding your funds and won’t pay them into your bank account? Worth a try.

[sounds_r_us_too]

Thing is i dont care about the money they can keep it i just want to delete my account which seems impossible to do without providing them with ID first

Yes they have my bank details

Nightmare

[goldenwolfman]

Complain to the banking ombudsman, make a noise, these ‘people’ must not be allowed to get way with these actions - too many of us walk away when that is just allowing them to move on and irritate us more with more questionable actions. I’ve just taken all my money out - they can still come after you for funds even if you close your account, you do know that - even 6 months later!

[sounds_r_us_too]

I havent used or sold on it for over a year but thought i would try and close it but i cant 

Ebay is not god and will never ever be

[thetimetower]

Just time of month and year tbh. I did have a crazy week last week out the blue where i sold loads but only 1 item. Nothing else has sold since xmas.

[goldenwolfman]

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@thetimetower wrote:

Just time of month and year tbh. I did have a crazy week last week out the blue where i sold loads but only 1 item. Nothing else has sold since xmas.

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Have to dispute that, not quiet for me, sold around 30 items between January and when I started removing items about a month ago. All different things, all my own and then nothing. Many of them were low value - so no one’s buying now as low value just disappeared- impossible to buy a 99p card off a private seller, impossible to buy a stamp for a couple of pounds and receive an envelope with STAMPS on it - which is what they want - collect labels instead for Obeys benefit!
I must be unique because my buyers got the service, they got a guarantee of delivery, AND THEY DID NOT HAVE TO PAY EXTRA  80pish FOR THE PRIVELEDGE OF INSURING THEIR 99p SPEND - ROFL. 

[smartsgaming]

Basically ebay was losing all of its customers/money fast. Vinted had them shaking in their boots. So they created a plan but instead of thinking "how do we make people happier and better off for using ebay" they thought "how do we milk all of the remaining users before we go splat". 

So they very slyly blew loads of money on an ad campaign stating that ebay was now free to list etc, knowing full well that once they had reached a customer return rate they were happy with, they would reintroduce the fees and go back to their good old selves. Their plan was that all of the customers at this point would just accept the new fees and then ebays making lots of money again. 

What ebay are too thick to work out, is that people dont like being lied to and bait and switched. You cant run an ad campaign on no fees, and then once everyones in, introduce new fees. I imagine most people including myself were insulted and just seen it as yet another ebay scam. How can you trust a company that does business like that? They ran an ad campaign purely with the intention of misleading people, because I guarantee it was always part of the plan when they removed the listing fee, to wait til they hit a certain number of users, and then reintroduce the repackaged fee. 

Most people dont kick up a fuss about it. They probably had a chuckle to themselves, thought yep thats ebay, and left again, this time for good. 

They actually started gaining peoples trust again on their last chance. Now that theyve screwed that up, i think it will be nigh on impossible to bring any of those users back again, because they already feel like they were tricked. Once a customer feels like theyre being tricked, youll never get them back. 

Im looking into ebid today. 

[arty.crafty.books]

I've been looking at stats at gripinteligence over the last monts and they update a month or two later. Here is their data on ebay UK, so definetly a drop in Feb with about 15-16%. How this is split between sellers and catergories, only ebay knows:

Yesterday's revenue was up
Mar 15 vs 16, 2025
Last week's revenue was down
Mar 10-16 vs Mar 3-9, 2025
Last month's revenue was down
Jan vs Feb, 2025
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OVERVIEW
In January 2025, ebay.co.uk in the MARKETPLACE industry had a revenue of $825,945,147, a conversion rate of 4.00-4.50%, an average order value (AOV) of $75-100, and 205,516,243 sessions.

Main country of store: UNITED KINGDOM

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OVERVIEW
In February 2025, ebay.co.uk in the MARKETPLACE industry had a revenue of $695,480,474, with a median revenue of $409,831. The conversion rate was 4.00-4.50%, higher than the category's median of 4.16% and lower than the lowest of 1.04%. The Average Order Value (AOV) was $75-100, above the median of $303 and below the lowest of $56. There were 180,956,205 sessions on ebay.co.uk, surpassing the median of 143,149 but lower than amazon.com's 2,354,214,457 sessions, the highest in the MARKETPLACE category.

Just to add that because Feb is shorter, that woudl make the drop more like 7%

[thetimetower]

again i have to dispute this i have sold a lot of small items recently. I will say one thing that has dried up is international sales tho. I don't think i even appear on ebay.com anymore. I'm sure it's some glitch they never fixed.