This is perhaps the stupidest system ever, really. Ebay should be showing both buyers and sellers BOTH prices during offers (the pre-fee and final price), regardless of whoever instigates the offer.
It's like they never considered how people actually think about pricing whatsoever in setting up this system.
A similar point I argued last week on the community chat thread with staff: Give private sellers the option to see and use a FINAL price in the item price box, and have Ebay work the fee backwards from there, also showing the breakdown – pre-fee amount & fee above it.
Of course that would be far too simple for their users, wouldn't it, as it would sound like a SELLER fee again, rather than the BUYER fee they want to now market these fees as! 🙄
Instead we're stuck with this pseudo-American system that works like sales tax in the US does – i.e. you see the price of an item on the shelf in a store, but it's only when you take it to the counter or online basket to pay, do they then tell you the final price with sales tax added (different sales tax per city/county/state, of course). But the rest of the world does NOT work this way for a reason: We want to know the WHOLE price (in our case that means VAT-inclusive, rather than Sales Tax!) before purchase.
