eBay

rugbyguy1960 · ‎31-03-2025

AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.

I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.

punzel9072 · ‎27-09-2025

"If a private seller has 1000s of listings doesn't ebay make them become a busness seller/"

No not at all, at present I have over 150 items listed, including 70 DVDs, over 35 timetables, plus around 200 Ordnance Survery maps yet to be listed, and around 400 items listed elsewhere which I removed from eBay when SD kicked in owing to prohibitive buyer premium and unnecessary tracked postage fees. This is only a small fraction of all the collectible and other items I have around the house and yet to list anywhere. If I had the time and inclination, and wasn't put off by eBay's restrictive postage costs, I could easily have a couple of thousand items listed, and no way would that make me a business seller - they're all items I no longer want, or my late parents' items, or surplus items from my collections.

ceres_plantery · ‎27-09-2025

I have a little bit more than you, but not by much. Ebay emailed and asked me to do a survey. Of course, sales had been down, so I put it down. The following day, ebay sent me a threatening message; now it's the sales amount below standard. I was furious. Because they quietly changed the postage to £2.76, I had to cancel TWO orders as it's highly offensive to the buyers and I don't want buyers to think I was robbing them. One never came back again with the order although I pointed out that the postage was only £1.10. Ebay had the audacity to harass sellers. Do they not know THAT THEIR SIMPLY DELIVERY HAD FRIGHTENED AWAY A LOT OF CUSTOMER? Yet, ebay blames sellers for low sales. If you see a survey, IGNORE! It's ebay's fault that the sales dropped. Also, I sell seeds and now is NOT the time to buy. Too early to buy seeds.

Remember if your item is below £20, you must ignore the bigger letter box and click Custom postage, and you choose the courier you want. If Royal Mail postage box doesn't come up, use an old listing to get the box.

gmij1961 · ‎27-09-2025

That adds up correctly 🙂

What is interesting is when I was selling and bought postage via the Ebay website which would have been subject to VAT that does not show up on my Ebay invoice as I was still actually paying RM or Evri . A small point but underlines that with SD Ebay are actually acting as virtual courier( merchant) and any compensation for lose etc has to be underwritten by Ebay and not the actual courier. Its Ebay problem to claim compensation from the actual courier . Also backed up is Ebay not specify the actual courier just a level of service and I suspect at some time Ebay will just direct the seller to universal drop off point

The service I have bought from Ebay as a buyer includes compensation so why are Ebay then making me pay for a compulsory BPF and why aren't Ebay making it clear that as the merchant they are responsible for covering postal lose etc regardless of BPF . It really isn't that honest and that is not a good way to deal with paying customers!

Ebay and other sites will probably get away with this as its such a small amount that is spread across so many buyers .

I have probably said this before but who cares 🙂

P.S If Ebay are now acting as the merchant for postage then the same is also probably true of for the purchased item and they are no longer acting as facilitator for the deal and are actually reselling and as they are a business then BPF is totally unnecessary , as if you buy from a business you are covered anyway.