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@doug86-3124 wrote:

It's a system designed to get rid of private sellers who sell low price items under £5. It isn't worth doing, when you factor in the ridiculous buyer protection fee, and how it takes up to 14 days to get paid in many cases. Why is how you post your items got anything to do with e-Bay?

The BPF is a total rip off. You don't need it, they already have a money back guarantee and counties in most cases will compensate for breakfast or non delivery. The prices you see are different if your either a buyer or seller. When you bid you don't really know what you're bud is! It's a joke and I'm out of here, for the second time in a year.

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The Buyer Protection Fee is just a partial replacement for the old seller fees and nothing to do with eBay's Money Back Guarantee.  Yes, there is the psychological aspect of the BPF which might put some people off but it is significantly less than the old seller fees (up to 7% plus 10p per item versus 13.22% plus 30p per transaction) so I really don't see how you can claim that it is a rip off.

The 14 day wait for payment only applies until you meet the eligibility criteria for faster payments (10 or more sales with a total value of £150 or more within the last 5 years, no more than 2 currently open requests/cases, and no more than 2 transaction defects within the last 12 months).  Once you meet the criteria you will receive payment within 24 hours of the buyer paying.

When a buyer places a bid on an auction the bid is inclusive of the BPF so the amount they bid is the amount they pay.