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eBay to sellers: it’s now free to list (but you get paid 14 days late now unless you use an expensive tracked delivery service)
eBay to buyers: you now have to pay compulsory “buyer protection” costing 4% + 75p
@Intaglio_Dragon for private sellers (me and you, not businesses) yes it has been flipped. No more Final Value Fee or listing fee (except in some categories like cars/motorbikes).
Buyers pay a fee instead.
2. Don't care when seller is paid, how is that "protection" for me? What matters is when I pay and if I can get refunded if not delivered (as per law, so not an extra cost service).
3. Well they are already, and have to be by PCI so not something I need to pay extra for.
100% - eBay always felt like they were stretching too far. Selling fees were a fine business model (just too high at ~10%). Some proper customer support/case workers instead of disinterested farmed-out chat agents would have more than justified that. Hurting buyers is dumb, it makes the whole platform less appealing to everybody.
It's just standard enshittification. Make everything worse. Charge more for it. Spin it as a + for everybody.