eBay deliberately driving away private sellers?

prowla

Pollycat said:

TripleH said:

My gripe with the new ebay system when selling is that there isn't an option when drafting a listing to show the total price including fees a buyer pays.

It's definitely been designed by a teenager in their bedroom.

Probably the same one who wrote their "AI" systems.

badmemory

The next big question is are ebay actually paying the Vat charged on that buyers protection fee to the gov as they should.  Not holding my breath here.

savergrant

badmemory said:

The next big question is are ebay actually paying the Vat charged on that buyers protection fee to the gov as they should.  Not holding my breath here.

Ebay say they will pay vat on sales to UK buyers, and relevant local tax on overseas purchases.

• The Buyer Protection fees displayed on this page are inclusive of UK VAT at 20%
• Depending on the tax legislation of the country where the buyer is located or where the order will be delivered, local Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST) or similar consumption tax might apply on the Buyer Protection fee instead of UK VAT. We will collect tax when we have an obligation to do so. Any tax collected will be included in the buyer's order total at checkout.

badmemory

I know that is what they say.  Some of these companies could say the sky is blue & I would feel the need to look up & check.

RFW

prowla said:

Pollycat said:

TripleH said:

My gripe with the new ebay system when selling is that there isn't an option when drafting a listing to show the total price including fees a buyer pays.

It's definitely been designed by a teenager in their bedroom.

Probably the same one who wrote their "AI" systems.

Teenagers are generally better than that. I'd say the AI on Ebay seems to be from a retired IT guy who used to work on a ZX Spectrum!

savergrant

badmemory said:

I know that is what they say.  Some of these companies could say the sky is blue & I would feel the need to look up & check.

If you have suspicions that they are not then you can report them to HMRC

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hmrc-launches-new-fraud-hotline

WattieHudds

I could almost stomach the BPF because as has previously been stated the overall cost is still less than the old seller fees (except when there were promotion weekends). What I cannot accept, and what has driven me away, is this refusal by eBay to fix the broken combined postage facility, and there is an obvious reason why they probably won't - the BPF is charged per transaction, so a combined invoice of multiple items generates only one BPF, whereas forcing sellers and buyers to treat every sale separately enables eBay to collect their BPF on every item. And their 'workaround' of refunding the over-paid postage works in their favour because the refund is split across all the items including all the separate BPFs. And to me this is gouging.

RedImp_2

WattieHudds said:

I could almost stomach the BPF because as has previously been stated the overall cost is still less than the old seller fees (except when there were promotion weekends). What I cannot accept, and what has driven me away, is this refusal by eBay to fix the broken combined postage facility, and there is an obvious reason why they probably won't - the BPF is charged per transaction, so a combined invoice of multiple items generates only one BPF, whereas forcing sellers and buyers to treat every sale separately enables eBay to collect their BPF on every item. And their 'workaround' of refunding the over-paid postage works in their favour because the refund is split across all the items including all the separate BPFs. And to me this is gouging.

Is the BPF per transaction?  I thought I’d read on here it was per item, and if you think about bidding or BIN item each time you do it BPF is included automatically so I can’t see that that would work.
I have combined postage rules set, and I can see in my own listings it says how much each extra item would cost in postage but obviously I haven’t had a real world example in the last couple of weeks to check.

Hoenir

badmemory said:

I know that is what they say.  Some of these companies could say the sky is blue & I would feel the need to look up & check.

Ebay will be regularly audited by the HMRC. No one incurs penalities unnecccesarily.