Buyer would not complete deal on the purchase of my car. So I cancelled and have relisted yesterday.

[howardblake]

Buyer would not complete deal on sale of my car -£14,000.  I immediately received an ebay bill for appox £25 on an assumed sale.

 I cancelled and manually relisted yesterday. already this has attracted a further £25 costs.

When making the original advert I did receive an email from Ebay offering something free -f I think listing.

 Are these charges correct. HB

[m25jet]

When you relisted the car for sale you should have listed it as a Classified listing for the amount that you wanted for the car.  A Classified listing has several advantages - for example, you can include your contact number in the item description so that potential buyers can contact you to arrange a viewing, which you cannot do with Auction or Buy It Now listings, and if you get a potential buyer who comes to view the car but he or she decides not to purchase the vehicle you can keep the listing active until such time as you have found a buyer for the vehicle.  It's never a good idea to accept PayPal for vehicles - the person who made payment could do a chargeback further down the line and allege that he or she never authorised the payment, and unless you were able to prove otherwise you'd lose both the money from the sale and the car, as you would no longer be the registered keeper of the vehicle.  To make matters worse, eBay offer no seller protection whatsoever in relation to vehicles advertised for sale on the site, so unless the person who wins the auction the second time is trustworthy and doesn't mess you around you may well end up find yourself in the same position that you found yourself in the first time.

In the event that the winning bidder does mess you around and you have to relist the car for a third time relist it as a Classified listing, as I mentioned earlier.  Accept payment in cash or via bank transfer only, and once the car sells and your name is no longer on the V5 as the registered keeper you can then end the listing.  In the meantime add the timewaster's User ID to your Blocked Bidders List using this link https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?bidderblocklogin and a big white box will appear on the screen.  Once you've done that click on the Submit button beneath that white box and the buyer in question will not be able to purchase anything else that you list for sale on the site.

[pixiesen2012]

the fees are correct

listing in the motors category is never free,

you pay an insertion fee and fees for adding extras like a reserve

what reason did you choose when you cancelled?

if you chose the wrong one you will still be charged the final value fee

[rusticrye]

Just to add that everything you need to know about selling on Ebay, including what the fees are, is in the Seller Centre.  You also have the Help pages with their integral search to refer to. You are also shown exactly what the fees will be at the end of the listing process, before hitting the 'Submit with above fees' button, giving you the option to make changes or not to list at all. 

If you'd done your homework prior to listing,  you'd have found that listing vehicles in Ebay's Classifieds (or on Gumtree, Ebay's sister site) is generally a far better option, not least because you can leave the ad running till someone has actually turned up, paid, and taken the vehicle away. If you list for auction or BIN, you have to accept that change-of-mind is inevitable, as no person in their right mind will pay for a car unless it's exactly what they're looking for, which they won't know until they've seen it in the flesh. Plus, you will always get timewasters who don't even bother to turn up.

@howardblake 

[tsmgmd]

Just one thing to consider.

Covid restrictions are quite clear regarding essential travel only, meeting people and a whole list of things which are all against the law.

There have been reports of fines issued to people travelling to buy cars besides many other law breaking actions.

I don't think inviting people to your home to view a car is such a good idea at the moment.