New Buyer Fee = Good News For Private Sellers!

[the-bee-keeper]

Now that ebay are adding this extra fee maybe they will actually allow private sellers to sell!

Now that the buyer has to pay a buyers premium, ebay will be making money off the private seller from the sales!

The more ebay push private sellers to reach the public the more money ebay will make! 

It couldn't be a better time to be a private seller!!

So come on ebay now is your chance to make more money!!

The private seller pays the way forward! 

[beachbay22]

Yes I completely agree with you.

I'm a seller and a buyer and my experience in 6 years is BOTH can be
unscrupulous (sellers not posting items and buyers claiming wrong item
received etc forexample)

The majority of sellers and buyers are genuine.

[edwardian-dreams]

It is “at best” grotesque that eBay think it is “fair’ or “great” or “whatever garbage spin is out in it”  to charge 75p plus 4% on items selling for 99p and thereabouts

Absolutely  patnetic to the extreme

never heard of graduation ebay? If so, why have you not implemented this?
Any answer?

No,  didn’t  think so

Lolz

[beachbay22]

Postage through ebay - I'm new to that - is pretty good for a seller and
packlink customer service/claims is better than direct ebay claims but
don't touch Yodel in my experience.

I'm not sure what you mean by sort own postage - is it direct to Royal Mail
or Evri etc?

[owlita]

Ebay can't be trusted (by my experience, anyway). When they ocassionally come up with something seemingly good (like "sell for free"), I smell a rat straight away, knowing it won't last and that they'll soon return to their money money grabbing tactics. We just have to be on guard as ebay is dodgy and full of nasty surprises. Customer care, fairness and honesty are ebay's polar opposites.

[thestagemanager]

I only ever use tracking on items of higher value, otherwise you are just
adding to the cost unnecessarily. I use the Royal Mail for all my
transactions and apart from a couple of items going missing, I think their
record is much better than private delivery firms.

[thestagemanager]

Hi owlita,

Ebay only changed from charging sellers to charging buyers to compete with
the Vinted slogan of 'sell for free'. They have to make money somewhere to
pay for all their staff and equipment. If you sell something for £10, Ebay
will make £1.15 from the buyer. When you consider that auction houses
charge both sellers and buyers a fee, plus VAT, you would pay more than
double that. I don't think Ebay charges are excessive. I don't like some
of the changes that they have made over the years but others have made
listing items quicker and easier. I think Ebay have shot themselves in the
foot by introducing the buyer protection fee because most buyers see this
as an additional cost. In reality the cost was always there but paid for
by the buyer who then charged a higher price for their items to cover this
fee, so passing the cost on to the seller. I have reduced the price of all
my items to reflect the fact that I no longer have to pay a selling fee and
if other sellers did the same no-one would be better or worse off.

[lucy_farmer]

'I'm not sure what you mean by sort own postage - is it direct to Royal Mail
or Evri etc?'

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I mean 'sort your own postage' by *not* having to use 'Simple Delivery'.... which is apparently going to become compulsory for private sellers sometime in the first half of this year.

(It's probably being brought in to prevent a re-occurence of 'item price low- postage price high' behaviour by private sellers, because the BPF is charged on the item and not the postage. And ebay will make money on the contracts they have got with the delivery companies)

Simple Delivery works by; The seller having to use particular postage services ( currently RM or Evri) on their listing.

The buyer chooses which one and pays for it *directly to ebay* (not the seller)

Ebay send the postage label to the seller, and seller posts parcel...

There *are* some good positives to this system- the seller will no longer be responsible for undelivered parcels (all the options will be tracked services by the way), or damages in the post (which seems a bit optimistic to me, as actually *packaging* the parcel is the only thing left to the sellers responsibility, so I can see ebay washing it's hands of that very easily! .....And we still have No Idea about the Exclusion List problem 🤔)

But there are some big downsides as well.

Those with no printer to print the label.

Those with no smart phone to take the 'digital label' to the parcel place to print out label there..

Those unable to get to the designated parcel drop-off place.

Those who live 'off the beaten track' and the chosen courier won't collect from the home.

Getting to a 'drop box' and it's already full.

Getting to the parcel drop-off and the bag's already full; assistant says 'come back tomorrow' (then you miss your delivery time target- set by ebay, *not* you!)

Having to use a parcel drop off that's totally chaotic (there's a few near me that are astonishing; manager doesn't speak english, kids walking and playing on piles of parcels etc..)

Those of us who like going to the post office of our choice and helping them stay in business!

Many of us view the postage being taken out of our hands with deep distrust. 

The carrot of not having to worry about non-delivery is not that tempting ; I've made nearly 1000 sales over the last 21 years and *1* of them didn't arrive.

So yeah, mandated 'Simple Delivery' could see the end of some of us ☹️