eBay Scrapping Private Seller Fees

[Narcisus]

On up to 300 items and doing away with 80% off FFV’s weekends ?

That’s the rumblings I’m hearing can anyone confirm ?

[littlebasher]

Makes sense, it's the only way they are ever likely to compete with Facebook Marketplace for private sales

The less there is to buy on their platform, the less people are going to use it

[untakenname]

Only a matter of time, they've already done it with clothes to compete with Vinted.

Temu must be taking quite a lot of cheap tat under a fiver sales away as well.

[GliderRider]

The crazy thing is that Ebay are competing with a very poor competitor. Ebay Marketplace has a very poor search engine, has no obvious way of quickly listing a similar item and is a haven for scammers, with Facebook doing everything they can to keep it that way. Its only redeeming feature is that it is free to use.

If I remember correctly, Ebay bought Gumtree, and have kept that in the dark ages for fear of having a good local area competitor.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

I find Facebook Marketplace impossible to use when looking for cars. First of all half of the adverts are clearly scams, and secondly the search feature is impossible to use and seems to just show random adverts not what I have actually searched for.

I gave up in the end and went back to eBay.

[Simpo Two]

Narcisus said:

On up to 300 items and doing away with 80% off FFV’s weekends ?

But how many private sellers have 300+ items?

[Bluevanman]

Thisismoney ran an article yesterday but have removed it, possibly they were jumping the gun .
I believe it starts from October 1st
I think this was the article
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ebay-is-cutt...

Edited by Bluevanman on Monday 30th September 16:37

[Narcisus]

Simpo Two said:

Narcisus said:

On up to 300 items and doing away with 80% off FFV’s weekends ?

But how many private sellers have 300+ items?

1893 ?

[CorradoTDI]

Interesting - not seen anything from eBay...

It's crazy really - eBay's fees have been extortionate for years and I only really list when these offers are on...

I've always said they could charge 1-3% and I'm sure they would still make good money but to now scrap the fees completely seems odd.

I'd like to see them make the site better, improve the app, improve searches and sort out the scammers but I can't see that happening if they are trying to compete with Facebook Marketplace!

[littlebasher]

And now its confirmed

I have some listing to do...

[rotaryjam]

It's a logical business decision, I don't know why they took so long to do it really.

They make their money on the sale fee so listings should always have been free.

Maybe I'm missing something.

[CorradoTDI]

littlebasher said:

And now its confirmed

I have some listing to do...

You got a link at all? Nothing from eBay as yet

[blue_haddock]

CorradoTDI said:

littlebasher said:

And now its confirmed

I have some listing to do...

You got a link at all? Nothing from eBay as yet

It shows for me in the ebau app when i go onto the selling page.

[CorradoTDI]

blue_haddock said:

CorradoTDI said:

littlebasher said:

And now its confirmed

I have some listing to do...

You got a link at all? Nothing from eBay as yet

It shows for me in the ebau app when i go onto the selling page.

Thanks - got it now!

I wonder if it applies to existing listings or is it best to cancel and relist

[blue_haddock]

CorradoTDI said:

Thanks - got it now!

I wonder if it applies to existing listings or is it best to cancel and relist

I'd probably say new listings only.

[Narcisus]

rotaryjam said:

It's a logical business decision, I don't know why they took so long to do it really.

They make their money on the sale fee so listings should always have been free.

Maybe I'm missing something.

Yup no more sale fees either for private sellers upto 300 listings !

[Bluevanman]

rotaryjam said:

It's a logical business decision, I don't know why they took so long to do it really.

They make their money on the sale fee so listings should always have been free.

Maybe I'm missing something.

You are missing something, there's no fees at all for sellers now,so how are they making money off private sellers?

[CorradoTDI]

Narcisus said:

rotaryjam said:

It's a logical business decision, I don't know why they took so long to do it really.

They make their money on the sale fee so listings should always have been free.

Maybe I'm missing something.

Yup no more sale fees either for private sellers upto 300 listings !

Yeah, seems crazy really - they've gone from one extreme to another...

[Richard-390a0]

Bluevanman said:

rotaryjam said:

It's a logical business decision, I don't know why they took so long to do it really.

They make their money on the sale fee so listings should always have been free.

Maybe I'm missing something.

You are missing something, there's no fees at all for sellers now,so how are they making money off private sellers?

As per the email I received today - From the 16th of October your money goes into 'eBay balance' where you can use the funds to shop directly on eBay or withdraw your funds to your bank account.

& you can guess who'll be earning the interest off of your money whilst in eBay balance. What they give with one hand lol.

[Bluevanman]

Richard-390a0 said:

As per the email I received today - From the 16th of October your money goes into 'eBay balance' where you can use the funds to shop directly on eBay or withdraw your funds to your bank account.

& you can guess who'll be earning the interest off of your money whilst in eBay balance. What they give with one hand lol.

Why would any sensible person leave their money in their ebay account when they can transfer it to their own bank account immediately ?