No more eBay seller fees - effective immediately

LionAquaLooper

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/01/online-retailer-ebay-scraps-fees-for-private-sellers-in-uk

For private sellers anyway. 

Whitecat

Was wondering why I hadn’t had my scheduled 80% off FVF weekend recently…!

GoFish

Yes, I was starting to worry, but a selling buying bonanza seems on the horizon.

PeteBo

Colour me cynical but I'd think they'd have email-shotted everyone to say "hey, no more fees!!"  if that were true, great if it were but sounds somewhat unlikely..?? 

carlos

Wow, that's great. And a big, big blow to Reverb.

carlos

PeteBo said:

Colour me cynical but I'd think they'd have email-shotted everyone to say "hey, no more fees!!"  if that were true, great if it were but sounds somewhat unlikely..?? 

Don't be cynical, I've just opened the app and it was right there.

Woodenhead

It's on eBays front page, a link to sell for free. I would've thought they'd send an email or message, can't moan, I've got a load of crap I need to shift .

Whitecat

I got an email this morning. 

DefaultM

Well that's nice but I'm still not listing anything worth a lot when all it takes is for the buyer to decide they changed their mind, make something up and suddenly you're paying return postage or getting nothing back at all.

LionAquaLooper

On the one hand I'm obviously happy with this news.  Then again with the 80% discounts I was only paying pittance on the stuff I was selling anyway.
On the other hand I'm gutted because the 80% discount was the only perk we long-standing sellers had for being on eBay for years, selling loads, and being well behaved.  Now loyalty's out the window.  They should at least give long-standing sellers back the ability to leave negative feedback.  One can dream.

Keiko

Just the usual bullshit scam, they've been doing it for years. "Woohoo everyone we've now scrapped the 5p listing fee, you can now list for free!" You still have to pay the 10 to 13 percent final value fee. Not my idea of free. I'll stick to selling elsewhere. 

idiotwindow

Keiko said:

You still have to pay the 10 to 13 percent final value fee. Not my idea of free. I'll stick to selling elsewhere. 

I think the new policy dispenses with the final value fee. That's the main point of the change and what makes it "free".

DefaultM

 On Tuesday, eBay said its move, which has taken effect immediately, meant private sellers would no longer pay so-called final value fees or regulatory operating fees when they sold on the site.

Whitecat

Keiko said:

Just the usual bullshit scam, they've been doing it for years. "Woohoo everyone we've now scrapped the 5p listing fee, you can now list for free!" You still have to pay the 10 to 13 percent final value fee. Not my idea of free. I'll stick to selling elsewhere. 

No. FVFs are gone. 

octatonic

It is a positive move but my issue with eBay as a seller is a lack of protection from dodgy buyers who claim they didn't receive the thing or claim it was broken during shipping.

PeteBo

carlos said:

PeteBo said:

Colour me cynical but I'd think they'd have email-shotted everyone to say "hey, no more fees!!"  if that were true, great if it were but sounds somewhat unlikely..?? 

Don't be cynical, I've just opened the app and it was right there.

Blimey looks like it's actually kosher then!
I only ever sold stuff when the 80% off offers arrived occasionally. Presumably everyone will get an email from evilbay to announce it shortly.
Cool, I've no doubt got some stuff I can shift  

LionAquaLooper

Your move, Reverb.com.

chrisj1602

Good stuff. I prefer to sell here obviously but this is good news. That being said, they still don’t back sellers well enough. I’ve just been stung by an idiot (hopefully I’ve only lost postage costs) as I await the return of a noisy “unusable” pedal that was like new and working perfectly when it left me.

Jimbro66

The news report I read this morning said that eBay is looking at introducing buyers’ fees early next year.

Give with one hand, take back with the other.

We’ll see…….

hassleham

People have obviously boycotted them enough to realise they didn't have a viable business model anymore. I wonder what the next money making scheme will be.

Maybe we will start getting ad breaks when browsing eBay soon?

Deadman

Good news. I'll be listing my Strat soon in that case. Will be stipulating pick up only, though as I don't want the potential aggro.