New EBay fees seem to be cheaper the likes of Vinted.Might be a good time to start a competitor.
eBay just removed fees for private sellers (Except motors)
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I've never used Vinted. I'm not really interested in clothes and fashion.
Soldato
I would say that's not technically true. It's already in the price. Obviously we'll have to see how it's implemented, but I suspect I list something at £20 and in the listing eBay will say £1.50 of that is the fee, so you will receive £18.50.
To a buyer, it's in the price you pay. Again, obviously it will be the buyer that pays if I then say 'In that case, I want £21.50 for it', so you could argue I'm being pedantic, but it's not 'added to the price' from the viewpoint of a buyer, it's already included in the price that is agreed.
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Selling fees within the Uk are free so yeah.
I’m talking about the new eBay fees.
Vinted charges between 30p and 80p plus between 3% and 8% for anything under £500.
It doesn’t really matter how the charge is paid or how it’s presented to each party. The outcomes is still effectively the same.
The only difference is that the seller doesn’t need to manually adjust their price for the fees they are losing to the platform.
They just set their price, the buyer sees the price they pay. In the middle eBay just takes their cut.
Others are correct to point out that the fees on low value times are now very high thanks to the flat fee element.
Man of Honour
I don't think that's how it will work as that would mean the seller is essentially paying fee's and this is to be paid by the buyer. What I reckon will happen is that the fee will be added on at the point of listing. Say you are doing a listing and list something for £20, Ebay then adds that fee on when you complete the listing and it goes live. This is further going to handicap private sellers as we will have to either reduce the amount we want to list a item for to cover the cost or just list it with the extra fee and be disadvantaged aginst business sellers who don't have the fee added on. This is especially going to hurt with the likes of books and dvd's where the margins are tiny and we are going up against the likes of Music Magpie, World of Books and We Buy Books etc.
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Do people really buy used books and DVDs individually from private sellers on eBay?
The cost of a second class small parcel is £3.25 these days.
A brand new paper back from Amazon is about £8-10 with free delivery if you buy 2.
You can typically pick up current books and Bluerays for £1-3 at your local charity shop. Our local is particularly good for having a great selection of current title.
The cost of a second class small parcel is £3.25 these days.
A brand new paper back from Amazon is about £8-10 with free delivery if you buy 2.
You can typically pick up current books and Bluerays for £1-3 at your local charity shop. Our local is particularly good for having a great selection of current title.
It was good while it lasted, obviously it was never going to be sustainable to let people sell for free and cover the transaction and buyer protection costs. It was a bit of shady tactic though how they sent everyone an email saying it's now free to sell, then dressed up the no longer free to sell email as "More protection for your buyers". Sellers getting paid 2 days after delivery confirmation is an interesting change, they already withheld funds for new sellers so it seems a bit unnecessary.
Doesn't the info say if you list for 100. You will get 100.the buyer will see 104 and pay 104?
Same as vinted.
See below
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A dvd can go as a large letter.
Worst thing about high postage costs is that I often chuck tat away now as just can't sell it.
With ebay fees and postage costs just can't sell a bunch of cables for example.
Its cheaper to buy new from Ali express than used from ebay.
I used to sell house plant cuttings. But the price of postage is too high
That’s exactly how I read it and what I mentioned previously.
Even a large letter is over £1.50 these days isn’t it? Plus the cost of a Jiffy bag.
Same issue still exists when it comes to bluerays and DVDs. You can get them for nothing elsewhere.
I remember years ago you could buy used DVDs in Poundland 2 for £1.
It’s not really an eBay fee issue though.
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No it's a postage thing.
I only sell on ebay using reused jiffy bags.
But really, with RM being sold I expect couriers will just get even more expensive.
Its a shame having to chuck more usable stuff away
Also. If you value your time in any way. Selling something for 2 quid with hassle of packaging and posting.. Well, there's no point really.
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Man of Honour
Yes, I buy loads of reference books, blu-rays and CD's on Ebay and I have sold loads of paperbacks and the odd duplicate reference book. I try to sell paperbacks in bundles of a 3 book minimum and only ask 50p per book, the rest is postage, reference books are different and many would fit in a large letter ziffy bag but now postage costs have increased again and this new ridiculous and unfair fee (unfair as business sellers don't have it added to their listings) is going to make it almost impossible for a private buyer to sell because the likes of Music Magpie and World of Books will be massively cheaper.
Or many local charity shops are charging basically new prices for used books which is why they have loads that they can't shift. They used to be a excellent source until they got greedy.
Soldato
Yeah, it's much the same point tbh, I was just saying the buyer would see the price. What you see and click 'Buy' on would be what you pay.
I'm probably agreeing I guess. My point was just that it wouldn't be like eBay fees and PayPal fees before, it's listed at £20 and you end up paying £20 + £4 in fees too. If it says £20, you're paying £20. How the fee is shown, we'll wait and see.
Soldato
I recently bought a single book for about £3.50. Look at this one, £2.62 and free postage.
so business sellers still have a sellers fee of around 12%? if thats the case then private sellers arent hit that badly. The BS is that buyers were already massivley protected by ebay, they would almost certainly come down on the side of the buyer in disputes. Should just go back to a flat selling fee for everyone and be done with it.
That’s a business seller so the fee structure is different, it’s 10-12% with no flat fee.
That said I’m not sure how they are making money off that as the postage, even at volume business rates, would be as much than the selling price less eBay fees.
Even then, that is assuming they got the book for free.
Man of Honour
So... This is a form of selling fee just by a different name. If you list item for X and you receive X-value, then that value is the selling fee.