eBay just removed fees for private sellers (Except motors)

Martynt74 said:
Unlikely, as the Buy it Now is likely a "premium" feature which would incur a cost, much like it does now.

If the item was done through an auction and ended at £500 though you'd keep it all.
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Buy it now has never had a fee for that option. I have always listed stuff as buy it now and never paid a extra fee.
 
I’ve not touched eBay in years.

I can pretty much shift everything I need to on Facebook and the person comes to collect it from me.

eBay also has other competitors like vinted which are also ‘free’.

EBay is basically just Amazon these days but without first party listings.
 
Yeah buy it now it's no different to auction for fees.

Do I need to end my current items and relist?
 
Haggisman said:
Indeed :(

I guess most people wait for the 80% offers anyway, so they're probably not making that much compared to their business sellers
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Indeed. I never listed anything outside of the 80% off. Was no hardship to simply just wait every two weeks.
 
Oh Ed not again. said:
You wouldn't be the first, given how cut throat eBay have been with their fee scalping in the past. Think it was 12-13% of total sale last time I checked. Might have been more.

Seems a lot to give up for them, unless they're offsetting the lost revenue elsewhere.
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Well, they will still make a fortune from business sellers. Also they offered 80% off fees every two weeks for private sellers anyway, so the fees weren't even that much unless you were selling big ticket items.

They are probably just trying to grow the user base. I imagine it being free to sell things will attract a lot more users. This in turn has more people visiting eBay and likely buying of business sellers, for which they get a cut.

I can only imagine they saw private sellers/sales stagnating or even dropping. Can't have that as a corporation. Got to have growth, growth, growth.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
I can pretty much shift everything I need to on Facebook and the person comes to collect it from me.

eBay also has other competitors like vinted which are also ‘free’.

EBay is basically just Amazon these days but without first party listings.
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Facebook sells your data and Vinted has buyer fees
 
DJMK4 said:
Thats not true

I picked up an immaculate (I mean immaculate) not a single mark on it, laptop (Dell Latitude 5330 - 12th Gen i5) last month for £254, I even asked him if he could drop his price from £285 to £254.

I paid around £80 less than what other people were selling them for on there for this model (some of the other listings were showing some normal usage marks or minor marks).


The key is to find a good item which has good description, has good pictures, and the seller has sold similar items where people are giving good feedback for those.


Yes you get some odd ball sellers, but i wouldn't say that the site is full of scammers. If you do your checking properly, most of the time it works out.
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I said I'd never SELL high value items on there.

I agree as a buyer you can get good information on the legitimacy of a seller. Its hard to do that as a seller - you can't easily vet a buyer in an auction and the frequency of which you hear about scams/refunds/product switching etc.
 
413x said:
Yeah buy it now it's no different to auction for fees.

Do I need to end my current items and relist?
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Just had the email:

“This applies for both new and existing listings.”

Which is great as I’ve a few things about to finish and doing well.

Often eBay was my backup when things failed to sell under market rate on MM, but with this it makes sense to list on eBay first as generally my items seem to do well. With no fees, it’s a no brainer.
 
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Kol said:
Just had the email:

“This applies for both new and existing listings.”

Which is great as I’ve a few things about to finish and doing well.

Often eBay was my backup when things failed to sell under market rate on MM, but with this it makes sense to list on eBay first as generally my items seem to do well. With no fees, it’s a no brainer.
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They are probably going to get a lot of volume from this.
They obviously saw vinted etc just gradually eroding their market share

They might be done for clothes it might be too late. But they can probably hold onto the others with this
 
Relisted an item but when I search for it, it doesn't come up amongst the other similar adverts.

Not had this happen before. Maybe it's the risen in traffic. Either way not impressed.
 
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