£1 selling fee offer - finished ?

[Anonymous]

HI does anyone know what has happended to the £1 selling fee offer that eBay has been offering every two weeks.

I know it usually appears either on a Friday or a Sunday, and wold normally have happended last week but nothing....

Has it now ended this offer for private sellers I wonder?

[pixiesen2012]

it has been put on hold during the crisis, ebay don't want to be seen encouraging people to make unecessary journeys to the post office

[Anonymous]

But then they are doing the opposite with Business sellers by not charging them selling fees until the end of May, doesn't make sense....

[pixiesen2012]

they are protecting business sellers by postponing their fees, business sellers will still have to pay their listing fees, just not during the time they won't actually be making any money!

[vijorey]

You appear to be an unregistered business seller
Private sellers are supposed to sell their unwanted stuff from attic or wardrobe NOT all new surplus stuff you have bought for a shop!..

[Anonymous]

Not correct, I am a private seller, if I was a business seller I would register as such....
There are no conditions on eBay stating I can only 'sell their unwanted stuff from attic or wardrobe NOT all new surplus stuff ', so please keep your comments to yourself...

[pixiesen2012]

from ebays help pages

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/selling-policies/selling-practices-policy/business-seller-polic...

An eBay seller must register as a business if, for example, they sell items they have bought to resell, they make items in order to sell them, or if they buy items for their business.



so, if you bought those items with the sole intention of selling them, you need a business account.

[*guinevere*]

It's possible that they've been concentrating on coronovirus updates, dealing with profiteerers etc recently, and maybe they don't wish to encourage sellers to sell while the current crisis is ongoing. 

Who knows?

[Anonymous]

I thought the same, but then they are doing the opposite with Business sellers by not charging them selling fees until the end of May to encourage selling, doesn't make sense....

[pixiesen2012]

they are doing that to try and encourage all the unregistered sellers to upgrade to business and keep listing instead of cancelling all their listings

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

Ebay need to cover their losses somehow.

If sellers wish to list then they still have the many free listings per month that they usually get,only difference is that Ebay will take more than the £1 max FVF for all items over £10 sold.

Doing away with the £1 max FVF offer guides people towards listing at a possible higher FVF or not selling at all.It gives Ebay a chance of an income everything considered.

It would'nt surprise me if they reduced or cancelled the free listings altogether for a while.

If they wanted to be considerate re sellers going out to post etc they could have just hit the pause button.