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to think Ebay should feck off with their stupid new fees?

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Portakalkedi · 20/04/2025 16:45

I had to give up with Vinted last year when they stopped allowing my chosen postage option of Royal Mail collected from my home. I am disabled, live rurally miles from the nearest town, and going to any dropoff points would mean time, effort, petrol and parking costs, so not viable. So I moved back to Ebay - just decluttering, not a business.
They trumpeted 'free to sell' but then started adding fees at the buyers' end (copied from Vinted). Great for the seller you might think, but it means 15-20% increase in prices for the buyer, so you have to reduce prices to be competitive.
I listed a bundle of items and had a buyer ask to buy three of them. I agreed and said I would relist these at xx and if she made an offer for the listing price I would accept. Well, what a fecking pantomime followed this. I had her offer, lower than the xx we had agreed. She said she DID offer xx, but of course ebay deducted fees from that so the amount that was in the offer was lower for me. We were both confused and at cross purposes, until I worked out that ebay had added fees to the xx I listed at, which she then saw as higher than what I'd told her, etc etc.
Fecking ebay - I cannot understand the sheer greed of a multibillion dollar company and why they can't just add a simple fixed fee per item, if even that is needed given the tons of ads shoved in your face on every page. What absolute grabbing bastards. They have also just implemented the same delivery system as Vinted, eg where they profit from it, Royal Mail collection from home NOT included, so will not be able to list there anymore. I cannot get my head round it, both the sickening greed. and their not taking into account that there are many people who do not live in a town centre, or may be disabled, not have transport, or otherwise unable to use the many crappy dropoff delivery companies (evri, yodel etc, clearly giving a huge bung to ebay for this).

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tooksometime · 20/04/2025 17:40

Portakalkedi · 20/04/2025 16:49

Reasonable that prices to buyers have increased 15-20%, meaning sellers have to put their prices down?

But they have not increased by this amount!

PassingStranger · 20/04/2025 17:38

Don't bother. Give it to charity shop.

Tomikka · 20/04/2025 17:28

For postage choose ‘custom postage’ then you can select your own carrier and the specific size etc
You may need to select ‘view all delivery services’ to see the full selection and ‘package size’, ‘view all package dimensions’

When you are creating a listing the price you put will have the extra fees shown in some views, but failing that when you list the inclusive price will be shown

If you are sent an offer via the eBay process then you would receive the amount shown, eg in the attached screenshots the buyer would have offered £3.99 but I received the offer message of £3.15 with 74p going to eBay

If the buyer communicates in messaging with an offer then it comes as plain text therefore if you both think you have agreed an amount which you list then eBay will add their fees inbetween

to think Ebay should feck off with their stupid new fees?
to think Ebay should feck off with their stupid new fees?
Darkclothes · 20/04/2025 17:00

You could try market place, olio, next door etc. I've never used vinted and only sold a few things on ebay years ago, so can't compare. I just found the time and effort wasn't worth it for a few £'s.

I've cleared out things recently and they will all be going to charity.

Potsofpetals · 20/04/2025 16:52

You haven’t had to put your prices down. There is no FVF and you can still chose your own postage setup

Portakalkedi · 20/04/2025 16:51

that's how I'm feeling, and maybe the rest of my stuff will be going to the charity shop

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HouseAshamed · 20/04/2025 16:49

I can't be arsed with it any more.

Portakalkedi · 20/04/2025 16:49

Reasonable that prices to buyers have increased 15-20%, meaning sellers have to put their prices down?

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tooksometime · 20/04/2025 16:47

i find the fee structure very transparent and clear and reasonable personally

but hey ho