Please tell me, how can sellers reduce their prices on low priced, fixed priced (BIN) items.
Remember £0.99p is the lowest you can list a BIN item on ebay. From your post you are expecting sellers to cut their throats just so buyers continue to get the same prices before ebay imposed the BPF.
Again...how can a seller absorb the £0.75p BPF on a £0.99p BIN item or for that matter the BPF on a listed item anywhere between £ 0.99p and £7.99p. If you have a suggestion then by all means I would love to hear your suggestion.
The majority of ebay sellers want to give their customers the very best deal and price, but that has become near impossible to do so since the imposition of the BPF. With cut-throat competition on ebay when selling in certain categories, sellers DO NOT want to sell items at a loss to themselves ... or is this what you are advocating just so you and other buyers see no increase to their purchase price.
Do you go to your local supermarket and demand they sell their products at a price to suit you after say a 10% rise to cover their costs (supermarket prices are hardly competitive making it difficult to shop around for the weekly shop) so WHY do you expect this from ebay sellers.
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Very true. But when a buyer factors in the additional £0.75p BPF could they just think I will only bid up to £0.99p (inc the BPF) and leave it there.
I will admit ebay has become even more of a buyers market, especially if buyers feel they want sellers to absorb ebay's impossed BPF.
I have always tried to pass on savings to my buyers. So when I purchase low priced (new) stamps on ebay for my postage, I pass these savings on by reducing my Royal Mail 1st class letter rate from the R.M. rate of £1.70p to £1.15p including packing and printing a Packing Slip.
Good stuff ... well said.
Ebay are in a downward spiral .. always trying to find ways to "pump their profits" and at the same time impossing changes, because rather than trying to be a different, a unique platform, they want to follow the herd of the likes of amazon and now vinted.
So £0.75p BPF for a £0.99p sale you are saying is fair and covers ebay's legitimate costs or is this to cover their losses and maintain their profits.
Remember this is per item not per order ...
So as an example: if you purchase 5 items at £0.99p you will also pay 5x £0.75p BPF.
Are you saying that before BPF's were imposed you were paying £3.75p in fees which the seller added to the BIN price for 5 items totalling £4.95p.
Now with BPF you have gone from paying £4.95p for 5 items to £8.70p inc. the BPF.
Oh yeah! Do you still think sellers are ripping you off? No it's ebay who is ripping you off.
