Avoiding ebay fees

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 18:47

I have sold something and received money via bank transfer.

I will end up having to pay over £40 in Ebay fees for this. Is there a way to avoid these fees other than marking the payment as not received which would give the buyer a 'none paying bidder' strike against their account

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 19:06

cjgardens said:
Ask the seller to cancel the transaction. Could offer him a 20.

Just done exactly that. Its not like the buyer or me are going to get ripped off. Its ridiculous that ebay take 10% + 2% paypal fees

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 19:13

DJMK4 said:
Then the buyer has no eBay protection for the item he has just bought.not that the protection is that great anyway

What protection? I bought a fake jacket using paypal years ago and ebay were hopeless.

How could they take money directly from my bank anyway :confused:

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 19:35

Why have they increased so much over the past few years? Its not like Ebay are doing badly!

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 19:48

amigafan2003 said:
It's a business, not a public service.

It operated as a good business 10 years ago when fees made it a good service

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 20:03

Adam said:
No, you agreed to ebay's terms when you listed the item. They have found you a buyer so they deserve their cut.

With that said I normally specify local collection only and 99.9% of the time someone will offer you cash.

You still pay fees if you get cash

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 20:14

Hyburnate said:
Not if you keep hush the sale went ahead At least I think that's how they do it, never sold anything on eBay

Doesn't work like that unless you cancel the auction before it ends (24 hours before it ends)

Once someone has won you will get final item fees

Guest2 · 1 Feb 2015 at 21:42

Haggisman said:
Not strictly true, you can agree to cancel the sale with the buyer = no fees

Which is what I am doing when he is happy

Te feedback system is a pile of poo too now. You cannot leave someone a negative if you are a seller!?

There is no point in a feedback system if positive feedback can only be left! - e.g. someone won an item I was selling a couple of weeks ago. Didn't bother paying or contacting me, olden days I would have left them a fat negative now all you can do it mark it as a non-paying bidder. whoop-de-doo