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Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3557

se20blue wrote:

Private sellers are still in a better position than before free listings were introduced last September.

Not really. If it remains free to sell that's a plus of course, but you'll be waiting upto 14 days to receive payment AFTER you've sent the item.

That's a red line for me, utter nonsense.
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se20blue · Joined: 21 Jul 2014 Posts: 889

Changes to when you get paid beginning in February 2025

For tracked deliveries, funds will be available 2 calendar days after we receive confirmation from the tracked service that the delivery was successful

For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries when there is no delivery confirmation, funds will become available 14 calendar days from the order date

Perhaps to avoid all these "problems" you should become a business seller.
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Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3557

se20blue wrote:

Changes to when you get paid beginning in February 2025

For tracked deliveries, funds will be available 2 calendar days after we receive confirmation from the tracked service that the delivery was successful

For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries when there is no delivery confirmation, funds will become available 14 calendar days from the order date

Perhaps to avoid all these "problems" you should become a business seller.

I'm not a business though and don't sell on eBay regularly. When I do, its surplus items from my collection to fund purchases.

However, I'm not sending anything before I get paid, so I guess that's eBay finished for me as a selling platform.

I have also noticed a marked downturn in programmes being listed for my club, already having an effect?
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gatfb · Joined: 05 Nov 2011 Posts: 333

I sell one bay to fund or allay the cost of my purchases.

When the new charges are rolled out across the board, I will not bother with anything under a fiver.

However, once we are pushed into having to use ebay's misnamed simple postage, I will stop selling and hope that enough other people do the same so that ebay will have to backtrack and return to current postage options.

CodeXIII · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 281 Location: St Helens

Facebook marketplace and Vinted for low value stuff and a auction houses for high value items I'll be selling.

I collect vinyl records funded by 50-60 prog sales a year so Ebay will lose me as a buyer and a seller (i'm sure they'll be gutted!) but as
others have said, enough people churn they might go back to the process that worked for years.

Imagine doing your weekly shop and saying to the cashier "it's OK, I'll pay you in 14 days..." I'm sure ASDA & TESCO would be delighted with that approach from a buyer.
Ebay's millions of loyal users are now granting them a rolling 2 week interest free loan!!!
Maybe they've forgotten it is OUR MONEY not theirs.

littlewiggy · Joined: 07 Apr 2013 Posts: 1809 Location: Newport

This may sound far fetched, but then I guess the current changes would have done so a year or two back.

Initially, sellers using Paypal would receive their money instantly.

Then it changed to within 2 days, probably to test the waters.

Then it changed to 14 days, and why not, they easily got away with 2 days.

With no kickback from these changes, eBay will eventually decide to pay sellers six-monthly or once a year.

And why not?! It's the world's leading marketplace, sellers have no choice or alternative, blah blah blah.

Sounds completely mad I know!
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:19 pm Post subject:

littlewiggy wrote:

This may sound far fetched, but then I guess the current changes would have done so a year or two back.

Initially, sellers using Paypal would receive their money instantly.

Then it changed to within 2 days, probably to test the waters.

Then it changed to 14 days, and why not, they easily got away with 2 days.

With no kickback from these changes, eBay will eventually decide to pay sellers six-monthly or once a year.

And why not?! It's the world's leading marketplace, sellers have no choice or alternative, blah blah blah.

Sounds completely mad I know!

Yes, wiggy.

Or don't pay sellers at all, if no feedback from the buyer is received.

And it's all done to replace their income lost by changing to free to sell, dressed up as "Buyer Protection". My ar#e!!

littlewiggy · Joined: 07 Apr 2013 Posts: 1809 Location: Newport

Spot on, Sir!

Their astonishing greed knows no bounds and the only way to counter it is a nationwide campaign, a six-month ban on listing all items for sale, a campaign organised professionally via the equally enormous power of social media... joe public's biggest tool... which will never happen because people are only interested in what suits themselves right now, never the bigger picture.

People as a collective have enormous power, even against a monster like eBay. It'll never happen though because people are thick (myself included).
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Ron Saunders 2 · Joined: 17 Mar 2022 Posts: 55

se20blue wrote:

Perhaps to avoid all these "problems" you should become a business seller.

At which point your "income" becomes taxable as you have recognised that you are a business. However, given that there is a chattels exemption for people selling off small value items where the intention is not to trade but dispose of such items, then not only are you waiting for your money, but you then will have to pay between 20% and 40% income tax on any sales that you make.

Ron Saunders 2 · Joined: 17 Mar 2022 Posts: 55

[quote="martino"]

CodeXIII wrote:

Like it or not I keep coming back to the fact that, where can you find a ready-made world-wide audience of potential buyers, without advertising costs or selling fees?

Judging by the massive reduction in Villa listings that I've seen in the last week, then the traffic through eBay is really going to suffer. I certainly am not going to waste time putting up stuff for a quid or so when eBay's fee structure almost doubles the cost to the buyer before postage charges.

martino · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 3:39 pm Post subject:

It is a very confusing system.

I have received positive feedback on some items but they all still show "awaiting delivery". Perhaps E Bay should consider releasing the funds when positive feedback is received.

colchestersid · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 743

martino wrote:

It is a very confusing system.

I have received positive feedback on some items but they all still show "awaiting delivery". Perhaps E Bay should consider releasing the funds when positive feedback is received.

They will be going some way towards this later this month

For any item sold under £10, positive feedback will trigger funds to be released after two days

Leigh Treymaine · Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 257

Any payment system based on received feedback is not worth a light for obvious reasons. Ebay will have to revisit this when sales figures fall, as they will.

ndg1860 · Joined: 27 Aug 2020 Posts: 189 Location: London

While I am not a seller or a business, I am seeing more and more that a few sellers are offering items in USD even though they are based in the UK. Given this method is something quite recent, that being that I have not seen it before, I wonder if there is any advantage for the seller. One lot I saw recently was with a $0.50 starting price. The seller is based in London.

martino · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 2:28 pm Post subject:

The only time I get prices in dollars is when the App somehow defaults to .com and not .co.uk

To me .com = dollars
.co.uk = sterling

martino · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 12:07 pm Post subject:

Has anyone else noticed a drop in sales since the recent "Buyer Protection" changes came in?

New Forest · Joined: 05 Jun 2017 Posts: 151

Or the fact that eBay has to report to HMRC anyone earning over £1000.

PaulM · Joined: 30 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

Difficult to be sure but as the items I sell are mainly from £4.00-10.00 (including postage) then it would be a surprise if an 8 - 20% price increase for buyers didn't have an effect

Leigh Treymaine · Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 257

New Forest mentions earnings of £1000 as a condition which is flagged up by Ebay. What about the widely touted idea that you can only sell 30 items in one tax year. So if you sell 30 programmes at 99p + £1 postage you will be "reported".

overlap · Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 430

"As a UK resident, when you sell over £1,740 or more or complete 30 or more sales transactions within a calendar year, eBay is obliged to report certain personal or business information to HMRC in accordance with the UK digital sales reporting legislation. eBay will notify you when you have crossed these thresholds.
"Starting January 2025, the prior year's information will be annually reported to HMRC each January and a copy of the reported data will be provided to you."

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/sales-reporting/uk-digital-sales-reporting?id=5454#:~:text=As%20a%20UK%20resident%2C%20when,you%20have%20crossed%20these%20thresholds.