Vouchers being added to my selling account

soolin

I've never seen this before, but both of my private seller accounts have in the past 24 hours been sent the following message, has anyone else had this?

We wanted to let you know that you may notice some of your listings benefit from an eBay-paid for coupon. This means that the items you’re selling will be even more appealing to buyers browsing.

There’s nothing you need to do. Buyers will see a discount applied at checkout, but you’ll still receive the full listing price - we’ll cover the coupon value.

If you have any questions or concerns, just get in touch, we’re here to help.

Thanks for being part of the eBay community.

steviebabes

Yes, I've had the same on my private account with listings. Just checked from another account and it's 10% off with coupon code JUNE10

Lorian

Will be interesting to see it's affect on sales 

kalsha

Yes, I have that as well.   No idea which items of mine it will apply to!

apricotcrush

Yes, I have it too.  It seems to be only on clothing.  I’m not bothered about it if it generates some sales, but they do seem to be getting a bit desperate.  

soolin

I've never had this before, should I put my tin foil hat on and assume that sales for private sellers are a little down and they are either trying to encourage sales - or encourage sellers to list more?

I haven't sold any more than usual, and as is often the case now (purely from a private seller point of view and ignoring my small business) I sell much more on Vinted than I do on ebay.

I did have a few things on my watch list I might go and browse to see if there is any discount. 

apricotcrush

It seems ridiculous, they add the Buyer Protection Fee and then knock it off again with a voucher.  

vacheron

eBay sent this to me too yesterday as a done deal, and have automatically placed these discount codes into many of my auctions with no option to either agree or disagree to them.

The e-mail is written using their usual "benevolent" language.... 

We wanted to let you know that you may notice some of your listings benefit from an eBay-paid for coupon. This means that the items you’re selling will be even more appealing to buyers browsing.

Personally, I read this as:

"We are attempting to encourage buyers who possibly can't really afford your items, and may have financial discipline problems, to purchase your items by offering financial incentives to encourage them to get into the habit of taking out finance over 6 months at 23% APR" on your items which cost as little as £70!

We will no doubt be getting some kind of financial kickback from Klarna for doing this, whereas you, (whose auctions we are using as the mule to facilitate this), won't receive one additional penny in return." 

To be honest, this made me feel a bit physically sick to think that me selling some of my unused stuff could now be being used to encourage people to fall further into financial difficulty. But from what I can see, there doesn't appear to be any way to opt out of it.


Edit: As there appear to be a few different discounts doing the rounds, here is the link to the T's & C's of the offers they have placed on one my auctions:  £20.00 off with code YUKFSI6NVMJDK87M

savergrant

vacheron said:

eBay sent this to me too yesterday as a done deal, and have automatically placed these discount codes into many of my auctions with no option to either agree or disagree to them.

The e-mail is written using their usual "benevolent" language.... 

We wanted to let you know that you may notice some of your listings benefit from an eBay-paid for coupon. This means that the items you’re selling will be even more appealing to buyers browsing.

Personally, I read this as:

"We are attempting to encourage buyers who possibly can't really afford your items, and may have financial discipline problems, to purchase your items by offering financial incentives to encourage them to get into the habit of taking out finance over 6 months at 23% APR" on your items which cost as little as £70!

We will no doubt be getting some kind of financial kickback from Klarna for doing this, whereas you, (whose auctions we are using as the mule to facilitate this), won't receive one additional penny in return." 

To be honest, this made me feel a bit physically sick to think that me selling some of my unused stuff could now be being used to encourage people to fall further into financial difficulty. But from what I can see, there doesn't appear to be any way to opt out of it.


Edit: As there appear to be a few different discounts doing the rounds, here is the link to the T's & C's of the offers they have placed on my auctions:  £20.00 off with code YUKFSI6NVMJDK87M

How can reducing the price of your item cause anyone else financial difficulty? Do you normally credit check everyone who buys an item you list? I can see it is a temporary reduction so may discourage soneone from saving up to buy but the whole basis of ebay is buy it before someone else does.
It seems to me that ebay is doing this to attack competitors, and possibly to drive up SD volumes.

vacheron

savergrant said:

vacheron said:

eBay sent this to me too yesterday as a done deal, and have automatically placed these discount codes into many of my auctions with no option to either agree or disagree to them.

The e-mail is written using their usual "benevolent" language.... 

We wanted to let you know that you may notice some of your listings benefit from an eBay-paid for coupon. This means that the items you’re selling will be even more appealing to buyers browsing.

Personally, I read this as:

"We are attempting to encourage buyers who possibly can't really afford your items, and may have financial discipline problems, to purchase your items by offering financial incentives to encourage them to get into the habit of taking out finance over 6 months at 23% APR" on your items which cost as little as £70!

We will no doubt be getting some kind of financial kickback from Klarna for doing this, whereas you, (whose auctions we are using as the mule to facilitate this), won't receive one additional penny in return." 

To be honest, this made me feel a bit physically sick to think that me selling some of my unused stuff could now be being used to encourage people to fall further into financial difficulty. But from what I can see, there doesn't appear to be any way to opt out of it.


Edit: As there appear to be a few different discounts doing the rounds, here is the link to the T's & C's of the offers they have placed on my auctions:  £20.00 off with code YUKFSI6NVMJDK87M

How can reducing the price of your item cause anyone else financial difficulty? Do you normally credit check everyone who buys an item you list?….

Firstly, it doesn’t reduce the price. If you buy a £149 item you get £5 off, but the 6 months of 22% interest is £9 so it COSTS you an extra £4.

Secondly, it is encouraging people to take out credit in instalments for trivial purchases that they shouldn’t (or couldn’t), have bought otherwise.

If you can’t buy a £70 item without resorting to needing 6 months of finance at 20%+ APR then sorry, but you obviously can’t afford it and shouldn’t be being encouraged (never mind financially incentivised) to buy it!

It’s reached stupid levels in America where people are now buying burgers and takeaways on monthly finance using Klarna because they have convinced people that this is a normal and acceptable thing to do,

Spoonie_Turtle

vacheron said:

savergrant said:

vacheron said:

eBay sent this to me too yesterday as a done deal, and have automatically placed these discount codes into many of my auctions with no option to either agree or disagree to them.

The e-mail is written using their usual "benevolent" language.... 

We wanted to let you know that you may notice some of your listings benefit from an eBay-paid for coupon. This means that the items you’re selling will be even more appealing to buyers browsing.

Personally, I read this as:

"We are attempting to encourage buyers who possibly can't really afford your items, and may have financial discipline problems, to purchase your items by offering financial incentives to encourage them to get into the habit of taking out finance over 6 months at 23% APR" on your items which cost as little as £70!

We will no doubt be getting some kind of financial kickback from Klarna for doing this, whereas you, (whose auctions we are using as the mule to facilitate this), won't receive one additional penny in return." 

To be honest, this made me feel a bit physically sick to think that me selling some of my unused stuff could now be being used to encourage people to fall further into financial difficulty. But from what I can see, there doesn't appear to be any way to opt out of it.


Edit: As there appear to be a few different discounts doing the rounds, here is the link to the T's & C's of the offers they have placed on my auctions:  £20.00 off with code YUKFSI6NVMJDK87M

How can reducing the price of your item cause anyone else financial difficulty? Do you normally credit check everyone who buys an item you list?….

Firstly, it doesn’t reduce the price. If you buy a £149 item you get £5 off, but the 6 months of 22% interest is £9 so it COSTS you an extra £4.

Are you sure there are no interest-free options?  If not then I've fundamentally misunderstood what Klarna is (probably because I've never used it myself).