MVL discount options being withdrawn from private sellers Jan 2025

soolin

It’s being reported that from 20th Jan the discount option for MVLs when a customer buys more than one item is being withdrawn from private sellers. They will remain for business sellers.

As soon as I can find a proper link I’ll post it.

There does seem to be a definite move to completely differentiate business and private sellers and is a step that I’m sure a lot of business sellers will approve of it. It isn’t usual for private sellers to be using MVLs anyway, but I know of a few and I suspect there will be some rumblings. 

se2020

I use it quite a bit on my private account.
It's basically an easy way of giving a postage or volume discount. 

Not sure I'll miss it or complain about it too much as it doesn't seem to do much to generate multiple sales.

If the best-offer function still remains buyers can use that if they want 3 or 4 of the same item.
To be honest,  more of them tend to do that now than those who use mvl

danny69

soolin said:

It’s being reported that from 20th Jan the discount option for MVLs when a customer buys more than one item is being withdrawn from private sellers. They will remain for business sellers.

As soon as I can find a proper link I’ll post it.

There does seem to be a definite move to completely differentiate business and private sellers and is a step that I’m sure a lot of business sellers will approve of it. It isn’t usual for private sellers to be using MVLs anyway, but I know of a few and I suspect there will be some rumblings. 

A very small step in the right direction. I have come across one suggestion that only business sellers should be able to list items as brand new. This could be an idea, but it wouldn’t help those selling vintage items as a business. 

RedImp_2

se2020 said:

I use it quite a bit on my private account.
It's basically an easy way of giving a postage or volume discount. 

Not sure I'll miss it or complain about it too much as it doesn't seem to do much to generate multiple sales.

If the best-offer function still remains buyers can use that if they want 3 or 4 of the same item.
To be honest,  more of them tend to do that now than those who use mvl

Presumably the postage option remains?  It’s not really a discount but a genuine saving on both sides on the postage.

Debbie9009

I can understand removing MVL’s for private sellers, as a very occasional private seller it’s not something I have ever used and can’t see that I ever would.

I do hope they don’t remove listing as new for private sellers, I have had occasions where I have sold unwanted gifts, or sold something I later realised was a bad purchase for myself, so I would see removing that as very detrimental.  

Over the years it has felt like eBay don’t really want private sellers, I do understand business sellers make them more money, but as I now find it more and more difficult to sell unwanted items, and eBay has been flooded with cheap overseas tat, I buy less and less, especially clothing, I always had the attitude that if I bought an item that didn’t fit / wasn’t suitable I could just resell it, but as that has become harder, I now buy a lot less clothing on there.

soolin

RedImp_2 said:

se2020 said:

I use it quite a bit on my private account.
It's basically an easy way of giving a postage or volume discount. 

Not sure I'll miss it or complain about it too much as it doesn't seem to do much to generate multiple sales.

If the best-offer function still remains buyers can use that if they want 3 or 4 of the same item.
To be honest,  more of them tend to do that now than those who use mvl

Presumably the postage option remains?  It’s not really a discount but a genuine saving on both sides on the postage.

At the moment it looks like just the option to offer discounts, which work for free postage options is going. However the speculation is that MVLs may well be withdrawn entirely for private sellers at least in some categories going forward.

Apparently sellers who have used MVL discounts in the last 6 months are receiving messages from ebay about it, so for most private sellers this won't even make a difference at all.