Buyer Protection, Pokémon Day, VAT invoices & other launches landing this February
As we wave goodbye to January, I wanted to update you on exciting changes coming in February.
Forum Posts
Update regarding “Urgent - VAT action” email
On 17-19 February, some sellers received an email asking them to update their UK Value Added Tax (VAT) registration on eBay or potentially be restricted from selling. This email was sent in error. Rest assured, this does not affect your ability to se...
eBay commission on postage
I have been trading on eBay for 14 years but as I have said before it is a shadow of it's former self.I know eBay brought in commission on postage to stop individual sellers charging £2 for an item and £20 postage but the policy they have have brough...
Be Aware! Offer prices INCLUDE the Buyer Protection Fee
I made a sale on my personal account this morning for a set of headphones that I had listed at £59.95 with it set to auto accept offers over £50.00. A buyer made an offer 10% below asking price, so £54.00 and as I have it set to auto-accept above £50...
Ebay seller offers & promotions 80% off fees etc. NO LONGER OFFERED? WHY?
Ebay seller offers & promotions 80% off fees etc. NO LONGER OFFERED? WHY?About 12 months ago I would regulary get offers from Ebay as a seller such as 70% all seller fees or 80% of all seller fees usally over a weekend.Suddenly the offers stopped? Al...
Buyer Protection Fee Woes
I see the Buyer Protection Fee has been added to our items for sale (not for the toys category yet). I know that if someone opens a not-received case for an item and then rings Ebay, that Ebay will often refund them out of their own pocket. Thus enco...
Raise a formal complaint against eBay for BPF and report to UK Trading Standards
eBay are probably quite deliberately not fixing the current combined invoice issue because they want to foist their new shipping system on us. The BPF is also at the root of this. I neither want nor need the BPF because my buyers already have plenty ...
Buyer Protection Fee on Best Offers
Just want to put out into the community an interesting response I got back after e-mailing eBay Customer Support regarding the broken "Best Offer" option on listings between private sellers & their buyers. I ran a bit of testing myself between my pri...
Proof BPF is a Scam
In eBays own wordsFree automatic coverageShop hassle-free with eBay Money Back Guarantee.There's no extra fee, and it covers the purchase price and original shipping costs on eligible purchases. Under Checkout TabPurchase protected by eBay Money Back...
Resolved! EBay plan to add fees for buyers - hurts businesses even further
From the sky news article here which is obviously a press release https://news.sky.com/story/ebay-selling-fees-are-scrapped-to-boost-to-reselling-13225638 It seems clear ebay is following in the footsteps of other selling marketplaces by adding fees ...
Buyer Protection Fees UK 2025 + consumer rights
This appalling decision by eBay to charge buyers for sales from private sellers at a flat rate of 75p and 4% of the sale price means they are actually charging more than the fees that private sellers were paying - a cynical greed driven motive. They ...
eBay UK running survey re Buyer Protection
Seen on a forum elsewhere:[quote]Anyone else had a survey request from eBay UK today regarding Buyer Protection fees?Looking at the questions it would seem they have taken note of the backlash from private sellers. The questions are along the lines o...
To all Private Sellers & Buyers
As a Private Seller and buyer, eBay have finally come up with a system that works for nobody but them and the business's that have thousands of negative feedback's, It's called "Customers, what do they know" We do what the hell we like and how dare y...
Fee Changes have KILLED Private buying & Selling
As a buyer and seller on here for 22 years, I'd like to congratulate the people who came up with this buyer protection scam. Let me refresh you with the original announcement and I Quote: "At the end of 2024, we changed our fee structure, making it f...
This is going to mean the end for many small private sellers. "Buyer Protection Fee"
https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/buying/paying-items/buyer-protection?id=5594 75p plus 4% buyers fee, so something which was priced at £5 will be £5.95 in February.
Private Seller - Minimum Selling Price is £1.75+ ?
Hello, I recently returned to eBay to sell off the doubles of my card collection but I've ran into a few issues.One of which is, most of my cards aren't very valuable so, as an example one is going for around £1.45 on ebay currently. However, as I ca...
Resolved! How will the new buyer protection fees affect auction listings?
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,) o...
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