Ebay - How Many Sellers Will Go Under ?

There is a real problem for sellers on eBay who sell items for just one or two pounds. to sell an item for one pound with one pound postage you're paying a staggering 60 percent to eBay when you add in your final value sale fee on postage, the item, and the managed payment.

I have created this film because my mother got upset today when she learned eBay had taken £1.19 in fees off a book she sold for just £3. and this was before you added in any shop fees and listing fees owed. it was an eye-opener for her today this was a staggering forty percent.

eBay may recond most of its sellers will save with the new managed payment scheme and that may be true if you sell higher-priced items but for those people who sell items for just a few pounds, things are going to be so much worse.

In fact, I would go as far as to say eBay could be putting people out of business if their business model is to sell items for one or two pounds.

eBay should not be charging on the postage, the postage is not the seller's money and it is nothing short of legal corporate theft for eBay to take 12.8 percent plus tax of a seller for money that is going straight to ship an item. it was never the seller's money, to begin with.

I have created this film to make people aware of the costs involved. maybe eBay will see this and rethink its minimum charge and go straight to a commission base.

If eBay is watching, the 2.374 billion you made in 2020, How much of that did you take from the poor sellers by taxing postage money that was never theirs? you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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