With the new Buyer Protection fee I no longer know where I stand with sending offers. If I receive a Send Offer Eligible notice I always send an offer, usually between 5-10% with counter offers allowed. Ebay tells you about the Buyer Protection fee but not how it will affect your offer. As an example, I received an offer on a blu ray that was priced at £25.68 originally. The offer price was £23.60 with a £1.60 Protection fee, so presumably the offer sent by the seller was £22. I've sent a lot of offers in the last week or so and have had very little response. I'm wondering if potential buyers are seeing my offers as not much of an offer at all with the fee added. If you have to knock a significant chunk off your sale price to get buyers interested ebay might as well have stuck with the selling fee. I don't see any benefit to private sellers or buyers with the new system.
