No Seller Fees ??

[rogerday]

This is a joke, and a lie. The seller fees are disguised as the so-called Buyer Protect Fee. On a low value item this can add about 25% to the selling cost. On top of this Ebay is holding on to our funds until 2 days after delivery. If you don't pay extra for tracking this is extended to 14 days after the expected delivery date. Buyers are already protected by the law and by the bank if they pay by credit card so Ebay is not providing any significant service for this fee - its just a scam to make more profit 

[*vyolla*]

The new Buyer Protection fee will certainly hit private sellers hard unless they're listing niche or unique items and not having to compete with the business sellers, who do not have the fee added to their listings or have payments held and also don't have to use Simple Delivery.

If you're just selling off your own personal items then the only workaround is to bundle similar items together and offer them as job lots.

[jonat_broad]

Have you actually read what ebay deems as included in the Buyer Protection Fee?
It's covering the cost of paying for a secure payment system and allegdly a customer service helpline 24/7. Mainly, in my opinion, the former.

Its not great - and frankly at this point its clear everyone would prefer to go back to just having seller fees (New Coke effect really) but the Buyer Protection Fee doesn't cover anything like protections by law or pay by credit card - though given the name they have given it, I can see the confusion.

[tylerb2025]

Still just a way for eBay to make extra money at the end of the day. Honestly, eBay used to be so, so much better than it is now. Everything they've changed in the last couple of years made the experience worse.

The no or low selling fees they had fortnightly was absolutely fine, and something any private seller selling anything looked forward to.