Ali express changing how they display basket prices

soolin

I buy a lot of packaging supplies from AliExpress for my business sales and just gone to reorder one line of things and noticed they have changed the way they display prices. Previously shown were before adding VAT/Tax so when you went to check out that was shown as a separate amount, now it is all included. I checked out a few things just in case it was something unique to the category I was browsing, but it is on everything.

I know there was some new legislation in the UK around displaying 'final ' prices, and didn't realise that included things we bought from overseas.

I wonder how this will affect the buyer premium on ebay and also the overseas items we buy in that all headline prices must now show the final total?

soolin

Just checked ebay, and yes all the items from private sellers now just show the one figure, that includes the buyers premium. On a quick look there is nothing to say how much I am paying in that amount for the buyer premium bit.