eBay Is Dead

[pinball-fantasies]

I am thinking eBay as a selling platform is dead since the seller protection was added ? I wonder if eBay have notice the decline in sellers since new rules started . In my 20 years of selling on eBay Ive never seen it like this

I have 20 watchers on my account , most of them are still selling but their sales have fallen to almost to nothing over the last 2 months and a few sellers have gone from the platform , its like all the buyers have gone

I wonder if eBay have notice the fall in sales or do they really care anymore

Is eBay a sicking ship and now doomed ?

[wgwillia]

R.I.P What a mess up by Ebay they have killed the golden goose.

[6kitkat]

From the perspective of a part time private seller.

I used to sell my kid's Playmobil, and the odd train set, nothing special - perhaps £1000 a year of our own family 'tat'. I bought around £1500 a year worth of stuff from Ebay.

Ebay introduced Seller Protection, and the 48hr hold on payment in February.  I thought 'that's my lot, I'm not going to bother selling anymore'. More importantly, on 4th Feb 2025 I immediately stopped visiting the site and stopped buying items . (Bought 3 items in 5 months).

Ebay culled private sellers, but didn't think that those sellers are also buyers. Ebay is dead - to me at least.

[cluckington-palace]

Exactly like me, I have a perm job and pay my taxes, have done since 16,
worked from 14, never had a thing from the state

[honeymonster007]

Is ebay dead, it will be with the money people are asking for old tree saws, don't they realise they need cleaning, sharpening and setting again, plus the handles need repairing and staining.

Just because something is old doesn't mean its worth top dollar.

[jacemodernist3]

I wonder how many millions of items disappeared overnight from eBay categories. They must've shrunk between them and HMRC restrictions. 30 items and £1000 in sales for before they submit your sales to the taxman, including personal possessions HMRC are currently brown-lettering people they believe owe them money. During lockdown the government didn't like the economy's growing online and wanted to clamp down to kill it. Flatlining the gig economy's online growth, killing any chance to make money in a cost of living crisis. So once cash is no more, they'll be happy. Own nothing, be happy, and eat the bugs. See you down the boot, online selling is  dead, fees and taxes are run by economy-growth-killing greedy clown's.

Oh let's call eBay China town because they're top of everything with fake items that take a month to arrive with import and VAT added to the buyers. Greed just greed.

[five-in_five-out]

Hello all,

I buy very little on ebay now, it's a complete joke. Who do they employ at the top, Oliver Cromwell?

Also fed up with Amazon drop shippers charging 20% more on ebay than Amazon.

Why is Amazon doing so well? About 400 billion pound ahead of ebay in Q1

The 0.75 p and the BPF are the killers. Oh nearly forgot the managed delivery system, which by all accounts is illegal in the UK, but not in the EU or America, that's why they are allowed to "kill" the UK private seller.

So I think it's goodbye private sellers. Will miss them and so will ebay.

You never know you may, just maybe get a bright kid into ebay top management and revert back to 2010 ebay format.

Shoppers and buyers would flock back in there billions and ebay would be, yes great once more.

Not looking forward going to ebay's funeral and millions of job's lost.

Bless all have a lovely day.

[five-in_five-out]

How can you sell on a closed account? Very odd you have listings or are you ebay management?

Strange.

[five-in_five-out]

Too right pal, sellers masquerading as private when it's all to obvious they are business's. Get rid of them, either be a pro seller"business" or a private seller capped at selling 30 items only per year only, after that ebay should not allow you to list anymore items unless you become a business seller, simple.

Private business sellers go away, or shut up and do as you are told by ebay like little children.

Put up, or shut up. Period.

[virgo666uk]

Well I guess we all thought that zero seller fees were a great bonus instead of having to wait for their infrequent 2.8% seller fees deal.  However, now that ebay have introduced a buyers tax, things are starting to look grim again. 

Bet the zero seller fees was because they knew that they were about to introduce a buyers tax.

Ah the greed of american companies huh.  I'm just grateful that I don't use apple!