E-Bay Changes

[GFL]

I've just received an E-Mail stating that Private Sales are now free of charges off E-Bay🙂

I've not read all the small print as yet and I don't really sell a lot of stuff via E-Bay, more buying the odd item, but this sounds like great news.

Gary

[johny]

Can see it doesnt include Motors which is all vehicle spares and accessories☹️

[johny]

oh wait a minute dont know its not clear what 'Motors' includes...

[johny]

no its alright looks like parts are free👍

[Steve P]

Sold a pair of Strombergs last weekend, I bet I missed the change.

S

[Colin Lindsay]

I've just read that and can't find any catch; free to sell but do you keep 100% of the proceeds? eBay also retain the money as a form of credit, you can request it transferred to your bank otherwise just use it as eBay credit, same as Paypal used to do years ago.

I've been selling stuff when the '80% off' offers came out so might just crack on with a few things now to fund my purchase of wings and wheelarches for the 13/60 bonnet rebuild.

[johny]

seems too good to be true especially from them! Is the charge added on the price and the buyer pays perhaps? As Colin says they now hold your money so maybe they hope youre going to spend any sales income with them on items from a business seller who does pay charges...

[Steve P]

They owe me money so we will see, I cancelled a paypal account years ago as it was a ripoff and I stopped selling on there.

Trying to unload a set of triple Webers and a fast road head and cam I have but I won`t pay the listing fees they want and don`t want to list with a low start.

S

 

Edited yesterday at 16:07 by Steve P

[johny]

yes I suppose the absolute basic ad will be free and then anything else you want will cost... 

[Steve P]

They owed me 82 + change and I got £71.42 paid in the bank today, don't think I'll bother selling on there any more.

S

[Josef]

They’ve clearly been squeezed by apps like Vinted. They don’t charge sellers. EBay made clothes sales free for private sellers a few months back which I’d say was directly cause of Vinted, who now seem to be moving in to the market of non clothing items. Follows that eBay are worried about the competition. The important bit of the change eBay are making is that they are no longer auto paying out, you have to go withdraw it manually after you sell (again copying Vinted’s practice). So I expect they’re making money / planning to by the interest on your sale proceeds, and presumably relying on the fact enough people won’t withdraw fast or regularly.