Less Freepost since 'Buyers Protection Fee'.

steviebabes

Has anyone else noticed this? The buyers protection fee is on the item only so I am seeing more of the cheap item/expensive post listings to reduce the BP fee. This is going back to the time when final value fees were only charged on the item and we had a lot of 99p items with £20 postage.

soolin

steviebabes said:

Has anyone else noticed this? The buyers protection fee is on the item only so I am seeing more of the cheap item/expensive post listings to reduce the BP fee. This is going back to the time when final value fees were only charged on the item and we had a lot of 99p items with £20 postage.

I haven't yet as I tend to buy mainly from business sellers, but I am not at all surprised it is happening. I won't be stupid with my postage, but when listing on my private account I will make sure I list with postage, and just keep the free postage on my business account. 

in_my_wellies

I list with added postage because it make it easier to combine postage which happens quite often as I'm selling my late husbands collections
I try to add the exact postage although sometimes I need to choose another courier or the courier price changes.
This week I had to claim for a lost parcel. This was surprisingly simple. £14.99 for the item and £3 postage. The exact item price was refunded to me and the exact postage fee £2.94. So I am happy. 
So 6p goes somewhere. If I had sold for £4.99 with £13 postage I would not be happy. I certainly won't be inflating postage fees 

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

I have seen a lot of large letter sized items with Tracked 48 postage at £2.70 which makes me wonder if that's Simply Delivery starting to be used more often? 

soolin

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

I have seen a lot of large letter sized items with Tracked 48 postage at £2.70 which makes me wonder if that's Simply Delivery starting to be used more often? 

£2.70 is the current cost for a large letter RM48 , I’m not sure if that is also the starting price for eBay’s simple postage scheme.  I am still doing my own postage though and for LLs up to 100g that means a postage price of £1.55, so very little incentive for me to switch to simple postage for my LLs. I don’t need my monies paid out quicker than it is currently which would be the only benefit to me, but might look at it in the future for my small parcels, I’d like it to get embedded a bit more yet though to iron out any teething issues. 

red_boots2

I have still kept offering my items free post, but have noticed I am having to drop prices slightly lower than previously to deal with the buyer protection prices.