New Buyer Fee = Good News For Private Sellers!

[sky-news-aware]

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! 

[queen_dolly]

this is not good at all! when an item is on with best offer, a buyer's offer inlcudes the 'buyers fee' for them,

which makes the seller think they are getting that amount, IN FACT those 'buyers fees' are taken OUT OF THE SELLER cut, see attached. This was an offer for £6, I did not receive £6, i received £5.08 AFTER 'Buyers fees' They are not buyers fees at all! they are taking this money from the seller! AND the are higher than seller's fees were before! it is disgusting. On Vinted the fees are added on AFTER the offer price. Ebay needs to take a flying leap.

[queen_dolly]

AND ebay had buyer protection before these made up fees! this is just a money grabbing exersize and they have no right to call it 'buyer protection fees' thats just stolen right off Vinted. we should all give up on ebay.

[oakla-56]

This is bad news as now it has priced my goods above real price i cannot reduce without loosing out and they forcing you to us simple shipping which also takes away choices, they want you to buy subscriptions, open shops, register as businesses all adding to people who try to earn a little extra, Also wants to drive people to other sites owned by ebay to boost the sales, not good for anyone,

[megan1512]

Its not just the buers fee eba will also be making mone from simple deliver

[superchallenge]

Given you have 1000+ listings, more than half of which are brand new items that have clearly been bought with the intention of selling them on, you should probably be registered as a business anyway.

Problem solved. No buyer protection fee. Go back to paying final value fees the way you used to. Ship with whoever you want. Your customers get their correct consumer rights. Everybody's happy.

[maggie44d]

Good news for sellers my derriere. Apart from all the hassle now involved with shipping stuff now, I was watching a DVD box set last week and forgot the auction was ending. Box set was on auction starting at £13.20 but to make a bid you had to start at £14. The P&P was £3.90. Went back in today and it has been relisted at the same start price, but the P&P is now over £7 and of course there is no indication of the courier being used. Sorry, but as a buyer I won't be buying anything that doesn't indicate delivery by RM and at RM rates of £3.90 for a  small parcel or £6.29 for a medium, I won't be buying at inflated postal rates either.

[edwardian-dreams]

£7 plus for postage? Someone’s ticked the wrong button somewhere 

With SD RM small parcel at 3.45  it should be or evri up to 1kg which isn’t £7+

unless it was custom postage 

[megan1512]

always send mine royal mail tracked 48 and charge £3.79
thankfully havent had to use SD yet 
dont sell a lot and no  bod looking for over a week now

[edwardian-dreams]

Op was on tequila x 5 at the time and trolling eBay imo hahaha

cos couldn’t be trolling sane people 

[daro2096]

Am assuming OP was being sarcastic. The buyer's fee is just a seller's fee by another name. Either way eBay is quids in. The seller not so much. You can still opt out of simple delivery.

[ear2fear]

The OP is no longer a registered user. Very strange isn’t it? 

[buffster1963]

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@ear2fear wrote:

The OP is no longer a registered user. Very strange isn’t it? 

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The OP was a very troubled person and well known to regular users. I am not surprised they are no longer a registered user. 

[ancient_art]

I used to be an active seller on eBay years ago and I had to say goodbye to it as fees increased stupidly and greedily overtime.

Today I said goodbye to eBay forever as a user.

Good luck with increasing your fees! And perhaps staying in the market for the long run.

[boston-stamp]

Clearly you must live in some kind of dream world ..... sales have spiralled downwards since introduction of buyer protection and simple postage both of which are imho intended to discourage private sellers away from the platform???

[queen_dolly]

Having looked at my recent transactions it is clear to me that these ‘buyer fees’ are being taken from the buyer AND the sellers! this is outrageous!

My item sold for £49 (buyer paid £52 with fees) yet I am only left with £7.63 to post my item when i charged £9.50, as that is what it will cost, what the hell ebay?!

[jackpants]

Is the original comment sarcasm ? Do you think we are fools ? We have to drop our prices to take the hit for the buyer or our items wont sell. And since the free and discounted listings are gone altogether now, it just means we are absorbing the costs more than we used to have to.

For example ; if i previously was selling an item (priced to sell) at £9.99 using my 100 free listings, I would get the full £9.99. now it will show up to the buyer as what ? £11.42 or something ? So I have to reduce my listing to what about £8 something to have any chance of selling it ? 

Ebay has become too greedy over the last few years. I will actually be selling MORE to get rid of all the stuff I have collected over the years before you hit us with another fee, charge, or another mess like Simple Delivery. 

[vinylscot]

The original comment was posted by a known wind-up merchant, who was rarely off these boards for a period of a few weeks earlier this year, deliberately posting wacky conspiracy theories, usually about affiliate sites, but he went a little off-piste here. He would regularly change his user name, so his new posts often weren't picked up immediately. Thankfully, he seems to have disappeared now.