its not free to sell - false advertising and needs to be taken down.

[byclickingsubmit]

"It’s now free to sell. What you earn, you keep. We removed fees for private sellers in all categories," 

Once you sell and item there is a fee applied. Its called a "Buyers Fee".

We removed fees for private sellers means, there will be no fees for private sellers.

When i list an item, even before it sells. Ebay add a FEE to that item.

Fees are still applied to the seller, they may not be responsible for paying this fee but one is applied to private sellers. so this needs to be changed as you stated youve removed fees.

Just because you called it a buyers fee, its sell applied to the seller.

[caf_uk]

If you list an item for £10 you get £10 when it sells...the buyer will see the item listed for £11.12. which includes the 'buyer protection' which is what they pay.

Sellers gets no fees as per the statement 'it's now free to sell

We may not agree with it and it may be sneaky and crafty but Ebay aren't doing anything wrong and it's not false advertising as all the statements are true.

[byclickingsubmit]

I understand what you’re saying but that’s how it’s served up.

When you click on your own listing, you will see a fee has been applied.

youre correct, if you sell for £10 you get £10 because that’s how eBay has broken it down for you on the back end. 

on the front end a fee has been applied.

Just because I’m not responsible for paying the fee, a fee has been added to the listing.

the wording should be something on the lines of “No listing fees” or “we have now removed listing fees” 

[susapric-68]

Unless your buying from yourself then you have paid no fees, the buyer pays the fees. If you feel running a company and charging no fees is a great money maker than nothing stops you creating and maintaining a site and offering it all for free to everyone. Ka-Ching

[kath3735_wxmjn]

but it is free to sell, the seller pays nothing.  Now if it said free to sell and/or buy you might have a point but the seller does not pay anything. 

[superchallenge]

This has been brought up multiple times on here and I swear I must be being thick, because I don't understand the argument.

"It’s now free to sell. What you earn, you keep. We removed fees for private sellers in all categories" is factually correct. They've removed fees for private sellers. They have added a fee for buyers who buy from private sellers. 

"Fees for private seller" <> "Fee for buyer."

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@byclickingsubmit wrote:

Fees are still applied to the seller, they may not be responsible for paying this fee but one is applied to private sellers. so this needs to be changed as you stated youve removed fees.

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Fees are not applied to the seller. They're applied to the buyer. They did not state that they removed all fees and there would never be any fees for anyone. They stated they removed fees for private sellers. Which they have.

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@byclickingsubmit wrote:

Just because you called it a buyers fee, its sell applied to the seller.

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It literally is not.

[byclickingsubmit]

It’s not free to sell because once you sell something called a buyers fee is added.

its free to list.

Seller doesn’t pay the fee, but a fee has been added to the listing. this fee is applied to private sellers.

if there was zero fees, you list an item for £10, it sells for £10 and you get £10. 

[lucy_farmer]

'We may not agree with it and it may be sneaky and crafty but Ebay aren't doing anything wrong and it's not false advertising as all the statements are true.'

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Yep, this is the whole point of Marketing, P.R. and Spin. (all total 'B Ark' occupations 🚀)

Being able to say something is 'True' , by the letter of the law, but definitely dodgy in the spirit  of it, is the first law of advertising.

[superchallenge]

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@byclickingsubmit wrote:

if there was zero fees, you list an item for £10, it sells for £10 and you get £10. 

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That's exactly what happens.

[papso22]

Do you understand the difference between selling and buying?

[plpmr]

you accuse eBay of false advertising and say -

"Fees are still applied to the seller, they may not be responsible for paying this fee but one is applied to private sellers"

A simple fact is that numerous sellers who complain are sellers who should be registered as business seller, therefore the buyer should not be paying a fee.

Your first two listings are for brand new items of which you are holding stocks.

[caf_uk]

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@byclickingsubmit wrote:

the wording should be something on the lines of “No listing fees” or “we have now removed listing fees” 

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@byclickingsubmit wrote:

I understand what you’re saying but that’s how it’s served up.

When you click on your own listing, you will see a fee has been applied.

youre correct, if you sell for £10 you get £10 because that’s how eBay has broken it down for you on the back end. 

on the front end a fee has been applied.

Just because I’m not responsible for paying the fee, a fee has been added to the listing.

the wording should be something on the lines of “No listing fees” or “we have now removed listing fees” 

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Which is exactly what they state ... they ARE NO listing fees for private sellers, and THEY HAVE removed listing fees for private sellers (within the monthly allowance)

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[clearingmyshelves2025]

But you're not paying that buyer's fee. 

Unless you're lumping both seller AND buyer into the 'free to sell' equation.

I sort of get what you're trying to say, but basically me, as a seller, doesn't pay anything. I just get money from a sale. Therefore it is 'free to sell' for me.

When I was selling, that is...

[susapric-68]

OP has even left the sale price sticker on one of the items showing what they paid for the stock (4 in stock). Buying to sell yet moaning about eBay being false

[ebtyson]

Under advertising law, you can't mislead and claim a technically.

The seller doesn't get all the money paid buy the buyer, so there is a fee to sell. The price of an item as viewed by a buyer is increased above the price a seller will receive directly impacting sale of the item. Higher price == less sales.

If the "buyer" fee was 50% would you still claim it's free to sell?

Private sellers aren't paying tax, there is no VAT,  it makes no difference whatsoever who eBay claims is paying the fee. It's all a marketing scam and needs to be stopped.

Stop accepting companies taking the P out of you.

[dch2112011]

You have had some very clear and logical explanations from some very experianced sellers to your illogical, incorrect statements - you have also been called out regarding your selling status - wake up and smell the coffee !

[*maetrix*]

It was free to sell.....for about 5 minutes,until ebay started grassing us all up to hmrc.

What ebay were taking from us,this useless government are now taking.

[caf_uk]

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@*maetrix* wrote:

It was free to sell.....for about 5 minutes,until ebay started grassing us all up to hmrc.

What ebay were taking from us,this useless government are now taking.

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You really need to actually get your facts straight before you post ridiculous comments.

[dch2112011]

What you mean ebay have been forced to shop you to HMRC by the govt who pledged not to raise taxes on the working man / woman etc - you just can't be a working man to be shopped to HMRC !

[wgwillia]

Ebay bull sit all the time ripping sellers off.