Ebay Watched Items Have Jumped in Price

Stoneman7x

Around a week ago I noticed that a lot of the items I am watching have jumped up in price. For example, an item I was watching was £6,250 went up to £6,336.72. Another item that was £10 is now £11.12. Also when I'm browsing ebay items, the starting prices / buy it now prices on a lot of items now end in strangely random 'pence' figures and not the usual 00, 99 or 95.

Can anyone explain what's happened?

TIA.

swingaloo

Have the items had bids?

Stoneman7x

The two items I mentioned are 'buy it now' listings but it's also happened to auction listings with zero bids.

ButterCheese

I think it is to do with the new buyer protection fees that ebay have just announced?  A lot of stories about it on online news outlets with people saying the original advertised price has now gone up i.e. something listed for £500 chnages to £515.75 if you actually buy it and check out

jeffuk

Has been discussed on here for 4-6 weeks.
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XzavierWalnut

ButterCheese said:

I think it is to do with the new buyer protection fees that ebay have just announced?  A lot of stories about it on online news outlets with people saying the original advertised price has now gone up i.e. something listed for £500 chnages to £515.75 if you actually buy it and check out

Yes it is. All my items for sale have increased with the total value ending in weird numbers, instead of the nice round numbers that I used to sell them at. I believe my sales will decrease due to this change and was quite happy under the previous system.

red_boots2

XzavierWalnut said:

ButterCheese said:

I think it is to do with the new buyer protection fees that ebay have just announced?  A lot of stories about it on online news outlets with people saying the original advertised price has now gone up i.e. something listed for £500 chnages to £515.75 if you actually buy it and check out

Yes it is. All my items for sale have increased with the total value ending in weird numbers, instead of the nice round numbers that I used to sell them at. I believe my sales will decrease due to this change and was quite happy under the previous system.

I noticed a drop in sales until I was able to round to nice numbers like £25.00 or £32.50 again. Shouldn't impact us as everyone is in the same boat, but unfortunately is does.

MDMD

red_boots2 said:

XzavierWalnut said:

ButterCheese said:

I think it is to do with the new buyer protection fees that ebay have just announced?  A lot of stories about it on online news outlets with people saying the original advertised price has now gone up i.e. something listed for £500 chnages to £515.75 if you actually buy it and check out

Yes it is. All my items for sale have increased with the total value ending in weird numbers, instead of the nice round numbers that I used to sell them at. I believe my sales will decrease due to this change and was quite happy under the previous system.

I noticed a drop in sales until I was able to round to nice numbers like £25.00 or £32.50 again. Shouldn't impact us as everyone is in the same boat, but unfortunately is does.

Yes, I’ve started to move mine back to round numbers where I can by trial and error now. It would be better if the website was more transparent and separately showed the eBay fee….

Spoonie_Turtle

MDMD said:

red_boots2 said:

XzavierWalnut said:

ButterCheese said:

I think it is to do with the new buyer protection fees that ebay have just announced?  A lot of stories about it on online news outlets with people saying the original advertised price has now gone up i.e. something listed for £500 chnages to £515.75 if you actually buy it and check out

Yes it is. All my items for sale have increased with the total value ending in weird numbers, instead of the nice round numbers that I used to sell them at. I believe my sales will decrease due to this change and was quite happy under the previous system.

I noticed a drop in sales until I was able to round to nice numbers like £25.00 or £32.50 again. Shouldn't impact us as everyone is in the same boat, but unfortunately is does.

Yes, I’ve started to move mine back to round numbers where I can by trial and error now. It would be better if the website was more transparent and separately showed the eBay fee….

Buyers need to see the total they'll pay just like they always have; while there'd be no harm in also showing the fee ('includes buyer protection fee of £x.yy') they definitely need to make the total very clear.

PocketWatchMan

Yes the above re: buyer protection fees is the likely reason for showing an increase in price,

However I noticed it before the change for added buyer protection. Not that many times, but a couple. Which does not surprise me really. In my experience a serious buyer will bid, or make an offer, on something quite quickly. If there is no interest at the lower price, some sellers will up the price a bit. 

Some people do seem to treat the watch list like a little bit of a trophy cabinet or something.. just put loads of items in their watch list, to admire..  I remember many years ago now, I sold an item of jewellery that I no longer wanted. had generated a fair bit of interest, lots of questions before hand, and a number of bidders in the end.  Got one message a couple of days later from someone who was really quite annoyed, apparently they didn't realize the auction was finishing. they ended their message with: "Are you really sure it's gone? But, I was Watching that!" 

jeffuk

PocketWatchMan said:

However I noticed it before the change for added buyer protection. Not that many times, but a couple.

That is probably because the changes didn't become live across all categories at once. It started in the electronics  listings first and has slowly been rolled out to others. So far it has taken a few weeks.