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! 

[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 ☹️

[norwichchris]

Hi,

Can anyone explain to me what has happened to the part where you add P&P on the ridiculously hard to use EBay selling form? it does not appear to be working for me.

Here are my Items: 

396345440571

396345467724

396345493621

396345545819

I don't understand the fees they don't make any sense, If they want us all to be business Sellers it won't work EBay is not Amazon, I only sell when have to and only things I own also most of my items are rare but think will move onto Facebook marketplace which is a hell of a lot easier to use.  I also had someone from India offer to help me setup my auctions which think was some sort of Scam. 

[pipeman2005cat]

I have just returned an item to  the seller because it didn't fit. I shall get back less than I paid because, of course, the new buyer's charge isn't refundable. This really isn't fair. To charge a fee  for buying  something  over and above the price of the article itself is simple usury. Disgraceful.

[sml192]

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@pipeman2005cat wrote:

I have just returned an item to  the seller because it didn't fit. I shall get back less than I paid because, of course, the new buyer's charge isn't refundable. This really isn't fair. To charge a fee  for buying  something  over and above the price of the article itself is simple usury. Disgraceful.

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If you opened a return request through eBay then you will be refunded in full including the Buyer Protection Fee. 

[owlita]

This, I'm afraid, is very typical of ebay. My experience with them is very bitter and I'm not at all surprised by anyone losing money to their sneaky dirty tricks.

[rhoda58]

I don’t get it. This new eBay buyer protection fee sucks - I’m offered £14 for some boots I’m selling, but in actual fact I only get £12.76 as I have to pay the buyer protection fee of £1.24 !!!!! It’s ridiculous- it should be added on the buyers fee, the seller shouldn’t have to pay it

[edwardian-dreams]

Op a troll?

[lucy_farmer]

'Op a troll?'

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...not a troll  exactly.... but definitely a little troubled.

(Best leave it at that.)

[rhoda58]

??????????

[norwichchris]

Honestly the site is not great to use anymore, tried to sell some old stuff of this week but its impossible to use and the label post never ever works for me at all. 

How can anyone say Evri is any good? Royal Mail is the top-dog of posting and sellers should make up there own mind what to use. 

Think will try one more time but buy it know auctions as bidding is dead on EBay and maybe that is for the best who knows.... 

Is it better to have a Business account? as have an awful lot to sell but it is too difficult to use. Tried Facebook marketplace (scammers and weirdos galore), Vinted bought one item and waiting for it to arrive.  

EBay does not care anyway so not sure why we even bother complaining to them anyway... Want the old system back much easier to use, I can kind of accept reasonable Fess but theres are too high now and it takes the joy out of everything..

[buffster1963]

If you are selling your own personal unwanted items then you only need a private account no matter how many things you are selling. If you are making, growing or buying items to resell then you will need a business account. 

[bluemoonrisinguk]

I  totally agree.  They are really taking the  P%$$.☹️}

[forestfeline62]

No smart phone or printer here so that is my time on ebay coming to and end and my partner who has been with ebay since 1998 and he has seen alot of changes over the years and this SD is the end for us .Like many others I am sure we will find another platform to use 

[norwichchris]

Personally I'm not entirely sure charging people extra for buying items is even legal or a grey area? they really need to clamp down on this practice and force companies such as EBay/Amazon to pay more taxes as they pay very little to be honest.