Why £11.11 and £11.12 for so many items on Ebay?

[ArsenicAlice]

I've seen this so often recently. Really weird prices. £10.07 £9.04. £5.92.

Because it’s now free to sell, the prices reflect the eBay fee plus the price the seller wants.

Plus the new system is quite opaque to sellers, who don't know how much the total price will be. It took me a while to work out what was going on because all I got as a seller were emails saying they were no longer charging final value fees, but they didn't explain what they would be replaced with.

eBay has operated for years where people are used to pricing things at, say £9.99 but now if the seller continues to price an item at £9.99 the buyer sees a higher price and the difference is eBay's cut.

Seller puts a price, usually a round number. EBay adds the buyer's fee, usually a percentage. Price + fee = weird number.

Oh right, the seller doesn't come up with it then. Thanks for that.