Ebay

DeliciousStorage · 15 May 2021 at 04:40

Tephnos said:
I have a £3 max selling fee offer now, lol.

£3 is actually pretty good for higher value items, much better than the old £1 plus PayPal fees. I wanted it but wasn't eligible and could only get the rubbish 50% offer so I'll wait.

pastymuncher · 17 May 2021 at 10:19

We are actually not that much better off as Ebay has increased their take to 12.5% plus most options when listing are now chargeable, 50p for adding buy it now for example. I also heard a rumour on Saturday that if you list something and the buyer pays for it outside Ebay (such as Paypal) then Ebay takes their cut out of the next item you sell that uses the Ebay payments system. If there are none then you get billed at the end of the month. I also heard that despite Ebay taking their cut from peoples sales they are being charged again at the end of the month and getting the money back can be a nightmare. Things like this really put me off selling on Ebay again.

smokedog · 17 May 2021 at 10:31

pastymuncher said:
I also heard a rumour on Saturday that if you list something and the buyer pays for it outside Ebay (such as Paypal) then Ebay takes their cut out of the next item you sell that uses the Ebay payments system. If there are none then you get billed at the end of the month.

I don't understand what is meant by 'outside'. Is it when a buyer ends their listing and sells to someone they came into contact with on eBay?

pastymuncher · 17 May 2021 at 19:04

Perhaps I should have said "outside Ebay's payment system" but I did say "such as Paypal" so it shouldn't be that hard to work out. Outside Ebays payment system would be any method that doesn't use Ebay's crap new payment system, so Paypal, credit/debit card, cash on collection etc.

GIBURROWS · 17 May 2021 at 20:53

I like not having to pay PayPal a percentage for doing nothing other than transfer money.

smokedog · 17 May 2021 at 21:01

pastymuncher said:
Perhaps I should have said "outside Ebay's payment system" but I did say "such as Paypal" so it shouldn't be that hard to work out. Outside Ebays payment system would be any method that doesn't use Ebay's crap new payment system, so Paypal, credit/debit card, cash on collection etc.

The payment method for buyers hasn't changed only how you receive money has.

G J · 17 May 2021 at 21:13

Hmmm this is annoying as I dont sell much on the bay but I have paypal.

Now it seems I have to look into getting a new/spare account to recieve funds into from ebay as theres no way I'm attaching an account with any large amount of money in it.

I guess these changes are to stop the scamming and the just empty the funds from your account and ebay cant do anything people.

smokedog · 17 May 2021 at 22:29

G J said:
Hmmm this is annoying as I dont sell much on the bay but I have paypal.

Now it seems I have to look into getting a new/spare account to receive funds into from ebay as theres no way I'm attaching an account with any large amount of money in it.

I guess these changes are to stop the scamming and the just empty the funds from your account and ebay cant do anything people.

Just set up an Revolut account.

DeliciousStorage · 17 May 2021 at 22:32

G J said:
I guess these changes are to stop the scamming and the just empty the funds from your account and ebay cant do anything people.

These changes are for eBay to cut out the middleman (PayPal) and take their slice of the pie, I doubt it has anything to do with scamming.

Vanquish-Storm · 17 May 2021 at 23:06

pastymuncher said:
Perhaps I should have said "outside Ebay's payment system" but I did say "such as Paypal" so it shouldn't be that hard to work out. Outside Ebays payment system would be any method that doesn't use Ebay's crap new payment system, so Paypal, credit/debit card, cash on collection etc.

Where did you read all this?

All eBay payment does it allow the buyer to pay by card or by PayPal through the eBay payment system.... you can’t pay by card outside of that system.

touch · 18 May 2021 at 11:18

That's nothing new. If you sell something on ebay then you need to pay the final value fees even if the buyer pays cash on collection (or some other way that they manage to avoid ebay's payment system).

pastymuncher · 18 May 2021 at 19:44

Vanquish-Storm said:
Where did you read all this?

All eBay payment does it allow the buyer to pay by card or by PayPal through the eBay payment system.... you can’t pay by card outside of that system.

In a newsletter from a author I follow and he's having problems getting his money back from his double charged monthly fees.

Ron-ski · 18 May 2021 at 22:13

I changed mine quite a while ago, have payouts set to daily and they come through quite quickly, saves me from having to withdraw funds from Paypal.

Vanquish-Storm · 18 May 2021 at 22:39

pastymuncher said:
In a newsletter from a author I follow and he's having problems getting his money back from his double charged monthly fees.

Monthly fees for a store?

Under the new system there is just one payment processor and that’s eBay. There’s no difference if the buyer pays card, credit card or PayPal, so not sure what he is on about.

smokedog · 19 May 2021 at 11:55

pastymuncher said:
In a newsletter from a author I follow and he's having problems getting his money back from his double charged monthly fees.

That's the old eBay payment method when you get a monthly invoice of your eBay charges. With this new payment system, all charges are taken when you get your payout.