EBay £1 selling fees - still a thing?

MtB

I have received a new type of offer (to me at least) from ebay, which is: I need to buy an item by 29th Nov - then ebay will give me maximum £1 selling fees on up to 3 listings from the 6th Dec for 4 days only.

I think they can go and take a run and a jump!

StefB

What offers have you all had today please guys?

Crappy 70% off for me, as usual :-(

I'm guessing £1, £2 or £3 fixed fee deals have been lavished out elsewhere though as the flippers have relisted all their perennially unsold bedroom hoardings this morning as ever.

Whitecat

70% here too.

Bod

70% off for me too.

I nearly got stung by a similar offer for a listing that I had up there for a few months.  Be aware that the offer only applies if you sell within a month, so if your listing is indefinite and it sells after that you'll get charged full FVF.  I messaged them and they kindly refunded the fees, but I feel it wasn't explained clearly in the first place.

Gizmo

found this on HUKD, might come in handy for folks taking up the (shitty) 70% offer

UnclePsychosis

Even with fees I always make more on ebay than I do anywhere else. I really dont understand what people get so upset about. 

WindmillGuitars

Also worth noting is that you now pay an additional 3% on the total sales amount above £2500 on any single item ..

DefaultM

UnclePsychosis said:

Even with fees I always make more on ebay than I do anywhere else. I really dont understand what people get so upset about. 

I think it's because they don't take their fees straight away. People get the sale money and spend it, then weeks later a bill comes out of PayPal for the fees.
Unless it's changed now.

UnclePsychosis

DefaultM said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Even with fees I always make more on ebay than I do anywhere else. I really dont understand what people get so upset about. 

I think it's because they don't take their fees straight away. People get the sale money and spend it, then weeks later a bill comes out of PayPal for the fees.
Unless it's changed now.

Pretty sure they take the fees directly now. 

Wazmeister

UnclePsychosis said:

Even with fees I always make more on ebay than I do anywhere else. I really dont understand what people get so upset about. 

100% agree

RevMatt

I've been using eBay for about 20 years, and although I'd rather pocket 100% of my sale money, I think eBay is quite good value - especially with the current 70% off offers!  Considering that it gives my items more exposure than most other locations and in turn increase my sale prices, I'm quite happy to pay. Most shops who offer commission sales want 30-40% on top of your target price which either pushes the price up to an unrealistic amount or eats into your money by quite a chunk.
I appreciate some people will find eBay charges too high and if that's the case sell elsewhere, but it's fine by me.

ryanverbena

Not sure why but I haven't had a single promotional offer since August 2021. 

Does this seem normal? If I'd had known it would be this long initially I would have just sold the items as needed. But now I have quite a backlog of stuff, it's definitely worth my while to wait for a promo

Bod

ryanverbena said:

Not sure why but I haven't had a single promotional offer since August 2021. 

Does this seem normal? If I'd had known it would be this long initially I would have just sold the items as needed. But now I have quite a backlog of stuff, it's definitely worth my while to wait for a promo

I have to manually check my eBay messages.  I don't get notified of offers for some reason.

StefB

Is there a cheap listing deal on all week this week?

Loads more stuff than usual has been added on a daily basis and there's placeholders left, right & centre. 

thetomsk

steveledzep said:

Received the £2 offer yesterday, valid until Monday.  In recent weeks I've had the 80% fee discount too.  They're both excellent value, especially when you consider that there are no PayPal fees to pay now.

No PayPal fee's? Sorry what? Its been some time since I've done anything with ebay 

steveledzep

thetomsk said:

steveledzep said:

Received the £2 offer yesterday, valid until Monday.  In recent weeks I've had the 80% fee discount too.  They're both excellent value, especially when you consider that there are no PayPal fees to pay now.

No PayPal fee's? Sorry what? Its been some time since I've done anything with ebay 

Yes, eBay now administer all the payments themselves.  You just register an account with them, just like you did with PayPal.  Payment takes a day or two, but there are no fees.  I just had 80% off fees last weekend, expired yesterday.  Cost me £2.30 fees on a £78 pound sale.

StefB

StefB said:

Is there a cheap listing deal on all week this week?

Loads more stuff than usual has been added on a daily basis and there's placeholders left, right & centre. 

Bump.

Fishboy7

I think you need to buy stuff to get the seller discount.....

GoFish

Not sure about that. I regularly buy bits but have "only" got the 70% offer. I'd guess that it's linked to keeping the acc updated with functioning bank details, contacts etc, but will no soubt be corrected by someone soon...

Gizmo

I got 2 offers right after adding my banking details, first was 80% second %70, handy to move a few projects i had kicking around that i'll never get to,just under £8 in fees for about £300 worth of sales...thing is Ebay are holding the money for 2 weeks dispite me having over 1000 poditive feedback for both buying and selling and in 2021 i sold about £2k worth of stuff without any issues and they didn't hold a penny of it....i can only think their new system doesn't take into account prior/pre Ebay handling funds....not very clever is it., also funny that they want a CC/Bank on file to take their fee's directly before items are even paid for while still holding your money.