R.I.P eBay (UK) ------>> 19th Feb 2025

[yorkscollectables]

The introduction of the eBay Buyer Protection fee of 75p plus 4% of the value of goods,  effective from 19th February 2025 has effectively killed off eBay (UK).

Buyers have walked away and Private Sellers are now forced to drastically reduce their prices to try to compete with 'Business Sellers', who are not subject to the eBay Buyer Protection fees.

It's a great shame, and unless eBay's management team in San Jose, California see the error of their ways, and quickly, there will be nothing left to salvage from the wreckage !!

[papso22]

Just to correct you, again.

There are no ebay employees masquerading as ebay users.  Ebay employees have a blue box around their posts and ebay in their user name.

The moderators work for the entity that runs the forums, not ebay.  They moderate according to the community forum rules.

[cobwebcottage]

No one is trying to silence you. You can vent your frustration as many times as you want as long as it's fair and proportionate. 

 I think the BPF is here to stay and we all have to adjust and accept it. I have bought a few items from private sellers since it was introduced. If the price is right, people will still buy.

Are you getting the mods and mentors mixed up?

The mods are paid but the mentors are not. 

[colcoo-616]

My performance graph over last few weeks look like a skiing route at Lillehammer. Managed 2 sales in the last week after heavy discounting. Mainly selling low value declutter items but risk to reward is now stacked against me with the postage, especially if you come across the odd not so honest buyer. Will give it a few more weeks to see if it settles. 

[yorkscollectables]

eBay is allegedly monitoring potential changes to its tariffs and will update the eBay community as additional information becomes available.

ha,ha,ha .................this looks to be the first eBay "whoops we've got it wrong" admission

[the-nutwood-collection]

You may, or may not, be right about the eBay buyers premium. 

However, this slow down is not confined to eBay.  Around a month ago, my web analytics started to show that visitors were browsing aimlessly, not buying, just short-duration click-click-clicking.  In the last week, they're not even browsing.  It's all gone deathly quiet.  On another platform, views are down 49% since the beginning of March.

Buyers are unsettled, they're flooded with depressing news - £20b black holes, WW3 imminent, chatter about conscription.  No wonder they're not in the mood to buy fripperies.  They're battening down the hatches.

... and, before you accuse me of being another eBay stooge or apologist - just look at my posts.  There is certainly no love lost between me and eBay.

[*devils.advocate*]

Stooges?

Lol - bless.

I've often wondered if all this had happened in the old Q&A Board times just how many of these posters would have survived?

Obviously now, the de rigueur current trend is if you don't agree with someone, you're a stooge or a bootlicker - or any other form of insult?

If anyone finds any site - in this case, eBay - so monstrously poor - why spend time on it?

Surely anyone's time must be valued and spent in more productive ways?

It's a discussion Board - different and alternative views are allowed - are they not?

[vinylscot]

"allegedly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

[valleyrc1]

This is the kind of pathetic coping mechanism the flat earth lot use.

Anywhoo, you outed yourself as a liar, so you have zero credibility as far as I'm concerned.

The fact that you're so addicted to negativity and misery that you accuse anyone who doesn't blindly agree with you of being an ebay employee is really feeble and cringeworthy.

[valleyrc1]

From the man who brought you "February traffic is way down - FACT" only to provide a source that proved the opposite was true.

Joker.

[tommystrezures]

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@yorkscollectables wrote 

No doubt the eBay employees acting as moderators in this message forum, will try to shout me down again, but I won't be silenced !!!

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Not one eBay employee has silenced you. As you have now been told on more than one occasion ebay employees that oversee these boards ALWAYS have a blue border to their posts. There are three who generally keep an eye on mAtters as do the platform provider. (These are the moderators and ensure we comply to board rules).

As mentors we are here to help users with their questions. What I don’t appreciate as do other mentors is this nit picking and baiting so please I kindly. Ask you to stop giving @papso22

@yorkscollectables

[andha-21]

@tommystrezures 

It looks like eBay also have another account apart from the 3 you mention, assuming you mean kat, Dave and Marco.

It's the one they use for legal threats. Seen it twice now. Once on a workaround and again on a thread about the same workaround that I think was completely deleted.

[wyntersemporium]

Vinted also have this buyers protection fee 

[wyntersemporium]

Get a basic shop there’s free listings on that but you would have to pay for the shop every month 

[wyntersemporium]

Same. Here no sales. Earned the grand total of £20 last month. 

[wyntersemporium]

I never buy eBay post I buy via Royal Mail as they collect mine. Think you can switch simple delivery off though 

[wyntersemporium]

Unfortunately it looks like it’s coming to business sellers got a message in my account. I’m not using it. As some days I can’t get out of the house. And if it’s anything like the fiasco at the Evri store near me. Apparently they only get one Evri bag per day. And according to the girl who works over the counter the bag was full at 12pm. 

[wyntersemporium]

I don’t work for eBay we are all ordinary people. That have been on eBay a lot of years. I first started on another ID 1998 discovered eBay on the back of an antique magazine. 
been here ever since although think I’ll be leaving this year. As sales for me are down thanks to private sellers

[vinylscot]

That's interesting. I haven't received any such notice, and no other poster has reported doing so. I would imagine such a message would stir up a hornet's nest of comment.

If such a message exists, it would be most helpful to us all if you could copy and paste the text of that notice so we can all see what's happening. I do think it's rather odd that they should decide to tell only one member!

[game_raid]

It will be an option for business sellers but that's all it will be is an option, it will NOT be mandatory.

It is aimed at the small business sellers that use eBay labels currently that don't sell enough to get a bespoke contract with carriers and wish to benefit from the added the protection, hence the reason why free shipping will be able to be added as an option for sellers.

There has been no official announcement as yet.

[abmedia2020]

Not long ago I'd sit down in the morning and "let's looks what's sold overnight", now I sit down in the morning and "let's see if anything sold overnight".

I don't sell elsewhere so I can't compare. All I know is the last three weeks or so have been terrible.

I'd put my money on the BPF being the reason. Buyers are easily spooked. This is the most monumentally stupid thing eBay have ever done and it was all completely unnecessary, dropping private seller fees to 5% would have achieved exactly the same thing.

Yes, my selling account is a business account.

I'm selling enough to the ride the storm so I can wait for the sun to rise again.

That's my opinion.