Great news. Ebay drops seller charges!

[Betsy]

What really threw me off if that the feckin bastards charge you for international sales it seems.
So if you sell at £150 in UK, buyer pays around £155, but if you sell the same item at the same price internationally, buyer pays £150 (+ whatever tax his government robs him for), but you're only getting paid £145 and ebay pockets £5, unless I'm missing something.

It's really strange.. i'm still getting my head around it.

From an international buyers perspective, if someone is registered as a business seller, it auto adds VAT so it sails through UK customs.. if you buy from a personal account, ebay gives you the option to either pay the VAT at point of sale or defer the import charges till it hits the UK border..

If it's over £135 would rather pay the VAT and avoid the +£12 upcharge for service fee from the courier.. alas, if you select this option, it forces up the shipping cost.. most recently for me from $48usd to $71usd therefore eliminating any saving i might make.. what i think could be happening is similar to GSP where my shipping address is replaced by a shipping address for a domestic ebay forwarding service.. then ebay receives the parcel and pays the border charges on your behalf but you .. in effect pay two lots of postage costs, one domestic (to the fwding service) and one international.. so it takes around a month to arrive.

Offers is also fked.. had something saved in my watchlist recently $599 BIN.. i got an offer for $391.. i replied with a counter offer of $340 and they said can we meen halfway at $400? .. i had to send screenshots as evidence of an offer they never made

Aaahhhh!!!

 

[Canuk]

So. I’ve just sold something on eBay and noticed the changes.

Protection fees and now you don’t get the payout until the delivery has been confirmed.

What a ball ache!

That's literally point for point the 'buyer pays' fees schedule for the French site Leboncoin. Only their #protection is a soothing sliding scale from 1 euro for low value items up to 7 euro for anything 200-500, and 11 euro for above.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Chapeau eBay, you done copied the lot!

 

[Canuk]

To be fair , it makes very little difference overall as the fees have simply moved ends.

It’s a little messy as all the listings now have odd numbers unless you set your selling figure + buyer fee to be a round number.

Payouts are a little slower but nothing much to worry about. Anyone selling on eBay should be using tracking as otherwise you are open to scams.

Never forget that eBay is a business who are trying to survive. You do have the choice of not using it to sell and go for other methods. Maybe go stand on the car boot on a Sunday morning for 5 hours (and likely take naff all)

in reality everyone knows that eBay is by far the best and to be honest it’s a very small amount to pay to have access to such a wide audience.

They are facing huge competition from arguably better and cheaper (for sellers and buyers) national operations like Wallapop in Spain and Leboncoin in France (similar exists in Germany and Italy). All of which ironically developed on the back of a 400 million investment in 2010 in Barcelona tech companies by wait for it ...

 

[Canuk]

Google!

 

[Canuk]

Whether Google own these companies outright I don't know, but certainly in Spain and France they are the no.1 sales platforms for second hand goods. With the international backlash against the US and Trumpism unfolding before our very eyes I see a grim future for eBay in Europe.

Also Facebook Marketplace is doing a good trade in Europe, so the competition is definitely getting stiffer. Hence eBay's volt face copying sales and fees structures of performing french and Spanish sites.

 

[Twozaskars]

I attempted to use the formula eBay give to get it so the purchase price was a nice round number such as £99 instead of say, £104.63 or whatever but gave in.
Only problem I have with it all is as already stated further back - getting my head around the best offer and counter offer system.

 

[Canuk]

I attempted to use the formula eBay give to get it so the purchase price was a nice round number such as £99 instead of say, £104.63 or whatever but gave in.
Only problem I have with it all is as already stated further back - getting my head around the best offer and counter offer system.

You can turn off the counter offer, I find that if you don't you just get a series of lowball offers which help no-one

 

[M_Chavez]

Quality of buyers has really gone down as well.
Since ebay introduced offers, everyone's making you an offer now, even if offers are turned off (they just message you).
So everyone lists items for 5-10% more.

Recently I had 4 newly registered accounts trying to low ball me with £600-800 for a £2k item, with all 4 newly born ebay experts trying to convince me that I don't know what I'm selling and the "market value" for it is definitely not more than £600.

Tossers.

But even this asinine shite beats Gumtree weirdows with offers of sexual services provided as partial payment for a set of used car winter tires.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Quality of buyers has really gone down as well.
Since ebay introduced offers, everyone's making you an offer now, even if offers are turned off (they just message you).
So everyone lists items for 5-10% more.

Recently I had 4 newly registered accounts trying to low ball me with £600-800 for a £2k item, with all 4 newly born ebay experts trying to convince me that I don't know what I'm selling and the "market value" for it is definitely not more than £600.

Tossers.

But even this asinine shite beats Gumtree weirdows with offers of sexual services provided as partial payment for a set of used car winter tires.

Did you take that deal?

Customers report to me Bristol Facebook bike "buyers" seeing what else is in your house or garage and coming back later to get themselves a "bargain"

Is this just Bristol or nationwide?

At least ebay forces the buyer to adequately identify themselves, helps stop the lightfingered brigade.

 

[Canuk]

Did you take that deal?

Customers report to me Bristol Facebook bike "buyers" seeing what else is in your house or garage and coming back later to get themselves a "bargain"

Is this just Bristol or nationwide?

At least ebay forces the buyer to adequately identify themselves, helps stop the lightfingered brigade.

Same thing on Gumtree, fly by nights come round your house 'you got anything else guv', they make their excuses and come back at 3am for their pick 'n mix