@plantsandsucculents wrote:
The new regulations on ebay to arrive in February just prove that they are trying to convert Private Sellers to Business sellers. Buyers will noe have to pay ebay for expensive postal and courier rates which I know that I can get cheaper through Royal Mail or Yodel.
So we will be priced out of the market and I think buyers will be going elsewhere probably to Amazon to get better deals.
Not sure how this can improve ebay for buyers or sellers frankly. Very disappointing.
Originally before Ebay chose to offer Private Sellers Zero-Seller-Fees - we used to receive fortnightly 70% or 80% Ebay seller fees discount offers - which used to run fortnightly between the listing day period of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Only). I used to love this, and I always listed on those special offer days. In fact, before Ebay moved to the Managed Payments scheme and removed Paypal altogether - then we used to get (£1 Ebay Seller Fees offers). These were hugely popular, and at least Ebay used to make quite a bit of profit out of this. Certainly more than getting Zero-Sellers-Fees for 100% of the time from Private Sellers.
So, Ebay saw what Vinted had done with them offering Zero seller fees and followed similar-suit, as let's face it, it is a much more competitive marketplace in the 2020's - as a lot also use FB and Wix which is free. However, it was always a Gamble (on their part), and in my opinion, I think the Gamble did not pay off - which is why they have had to quickly make some changes. Naturally Business sellers have been getting upset - since they have to pay, and Private sellers pay nothing in Ebay Sellers Fees, so now Ebay Buyers have to pay a 4% + 75p extra premium on top of the Private Sellers listed prices. So, a £100 item shall now cost them £104.75 instead + the P&P in most cases.
The reason (I think) that being Business Sellers was originally so off-putting, was, that Business Sellers never got any discounted Ebay Selling Fees Offers ever. So, you'd have to charge an additional £12.60 + 30p on top of a £100 item - bringing it to £112.90 to the buyer to cover those Ebay Fees, or forfeit those fees yourself. That is not always doable though, as naturally Business sellers have to buy the item to then sell on, so that would eat into your profit-margins of your business - even before you end up having to pay the tax man and maybe VAT as well on top. Of course, Private sellers simply selling off items they have themselves already don't have to worry about that so much.
My concern is really about the means in which to post the items to the buyers on Ebay. I want to continue on with using my local Post Office and leave it to the Professionals at the counter service there, who are efficient - and I don't have to go to the trouble of the DIY approach and buying scales to weigh parcels and filling everything in online with 'Any' other form of postal service. As long as that remains, I can accept these changes. I don't mind waiting a bit longer for the money, but I think I shall switch to only sending items by Special Delivery at £9.75 - £10.35 per cost-price - and - International Tracked and/or Signed For for parcels going abroad. At least Ebay knows for a Fact that the item has been not just sent - but also arrived at the address of the buyer. If it gets to the point whereby complications arrive where sellers don't get paid, then they'll be a lot of people complaining to eBay. Why bring lots of trouble which they can easily avoid, by either keeping things the same, or reverting back to how things was before.
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