eBay needs seller will WIN a case offer.

A week on eBay
1) Had proof of delivery, but buyer claimed item didn't arrive.
2) Item arrived a day late, no fault of my own - negative feedback.
3) Item sold as faulty and spares/repair, buyer complained item is faulty and wanted a full refund while keeping the item....
4) Someone bought a item that was blue in colour and then opened a case as "item not as described, reason being: item is blue.

Like wtf ebay do you have chimps reviewing cases?

Ebay has died a death from their own making. I have been selling on Ebay for the last 14 years sold over £42000 and have over 4000 feedback at 100%, am a top rated seller, power seller, etc top 4% in terms of happy customers

Ebay sales revenue for 2013 16 Billion Dollars WOW, 2014 & 2015 8 Billion Dollars OMG 50% drop!! and the below is why!

Forcing sellers to be businesses when they clearly are not. It's called being entrepreneurial not tax avoidance.
Making "Best Match" as an option let alone the default one.
Letting people shaft the pricing so their listing appears first (got a quantity sell few at rock bottom price and then lifting it high so the item appears top of the "Best Match"
Making top/only power sellers stuff appear first in "Best Match"
Your Items not even appearing in searches that they meet. I have reported 100's of my items to Ebay where my item hasn't appear in searches when it should and they didn't even sort 1 of them out.
Forcing exact requirements to get even crappy bronze power seller discounts
Forcing 14 day then 30 day returns even on used goods and no its not EU regulations
Forcing refunds buyer is always right even with proof - I had very few issue's touch wood but had 20% non paying bidders last year up 200% on all previous years
Excluding Power Sellers from any kind of free listing or FP offers.
Royal Mail screwing EVERYONE up by putting the prices up and bringing in parcel sizes because they couldn't cope with the amount coming through to them. This one really shafted Ebay shipping up 200% since 2012 because of this. Anything remotely big and you are losing so much margin on postage its stupid.

Ebay is dead and they made it that way. Tough for a them now, haha. I now sell virtually nothing on Ebay and what I do its my tat from around the house.

Ebay are utterly rubbish now with their high fees and unfair seller issues.

I was charged for all fees even with proof of sending and delivery when the buyer was a con and claimed they didnt receive the item. Called ebay and their script reading goons werent interested in anything other than re-reading their 'T&Cs' no wonder they are going downhill and need to spam us all with these weekly 'offers'. Theyve become a mass fake goods flee market!

So true. Some real idiots buying on ebay and yet it's always the seller's fault. I had a courier damage two items that were shipped at the same time one week and both buyers immediately left negative feedback for me, despite the fact that it was obviously the fault of the courier and despite my offer to despatch a replacement even before the original was returned. Buyers need to understand that feedback is about the transaction as a whole, not just one aspect of it, and that negative feedback can be quite serious to a seller who relies on ebay for an income. I think buyers shouldn't be able to leave negative feedback unless they've opened and won a case against the seller - but then like you said ebay always sides with the buyers anyway, although I was pleasantly surprised recently when I won an item not as described case just like yours (ordered black, got black, complained it was black) where the response from eBay was quick and sounded like an actual human wrote it, saying 'The buyer clearly got what they ordered so the case has been closed in your favour and we're sorry for any inconvenience'. Didn't stop them leaving negative feedback though, did it?


Edit - And it turns out that these recent undeserved negative feedback comments have put my seller account 'below standard' which makes me ineligible for this offer, so I'm unable to list more stuff to bring my account back up to above standard until my account is above standard. What?!

No,keep a look out tomorrow for a new offer.

is this still available?

The links you provided are for ACTIVATION not for checking if you activated the offer.

So when I clicked it, it activated the offer which I DID NOT want - so I warned other users as your post is misleading.

That's all.

Aww that's a shame! Thanks!

A re-list will revert to the normal pricing.

If your items dont sell and you relist - Do you still pay the £1 fee or does that go back up?

Wasn't that drop in 50% revenue due to Ebay splitting off the PayPal financial info in preparation for splitting the company?

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150121006398/en/eBay-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Full-Year-Results

I think the worst case scenario for Ebay is flat growth, versus Amazons continued upward trend, I've got items listed under various sites, but it's only Ebay that consistently gives me sales, it may be the type of items I sell, but that's irrelevant, it just shows there really is a place for Ebay. I don't like the fees, I don't like the way they treat sellers, but I can't argue with the sales volume I get from them.

Also, once you compare fees versus Amazon, you soon realise that Ebay is no worse and many cases lots better, it is especially beneficial for selling low price items, where the Amazon postage options totally price you out of the market.

mike

Agree with all that too. At one point eBay were making over £1000 per month out of me but then I discovered Amazon FBA (fullfiled by Amazon). List the item, print barcodes, print UPS labels (massively discounted compared to usual UPS charges), book UPS to collect from you (free), they deliver to Amazon and you just wait for the items to sell. When they do Amazon sends them out for you.
The total cost of this for me was much less than eBay was charging plus I don't have to post any of it myself. You also sell a lot more with Amazon FBA as 90% of people don't even realise they're not buying from Amazon direct. Also people with Prime memberships like to buy from there because they get next day delivery.

Overall my returns rates are higher as it's so easy to send back to Amazon. Their customer services have been excellent though. One time they lost a load of my stock and paid me the full money I would have received had they sold it all for me. They also damaged a few items in their warehouse and again paid me the full money I'd have got if sold.

I totally agree with all of that - our small business has put 7 figures worth their way and we are still getting stung more and more. But they are far from dead, until a real competitor with processes comes in to take their place they will survive. By the time enough people have voted with their feet, small businesses like you and I will have long gone. You will just have to ride it out and hope that they realise before it's too late. I don't like the refund process either but we generally accept it and take it on the chin unless the buyer has clearly done the damage themselves then we appeal it and have been successful there.

I'm in the NE. I list items cheaper on Gumtree as no fees and buyer collects - no hassle. I just wonder when eBay owned Gumtree is going to start to charge.

Ebay has died a death from their own making. I have been selling on Ebay for the last 14 years sold over £42000 and have over 4000 feedback at 100%, am a top rated seller, power seller, etc top 4% in terms of happy customers

Ebay sales revenue for 2013 16 Billion Dollars WOW, 2014 & 2015 8 Billion Dollars OMG 50% drop!! and the below is why!

Forcing sellers to be businesses when they clearly are not. It's called being entrepreneurial not tax avoidance.
Making "Best Match" as an option let alone the default one.
Letting people shaft the pricing so their listing appears first (got a quantity sell few at rock bottom price and then lifting it high so the item appears top of the "Best Match"
Making top/only power sellers stuff appear first in "Best Match"
Your Items not even appearing in searches that they meet. I have reported 100's of my items to Ebay where my item hasn't appear in searches when it should and they didn't even sort 1 of them out.
Forcing exact requirements to get even crappy bronze power seller discounts
Forcing 14 day then 30 day returns even on used goods and no its not EU regulations
Forcing refunds buyer is always right even with proof - I had very few issue's touch wood but had 20% non paying bidders last year up 200% on all previous years
Excluding Power Sellers from any kind of free listing or FP offers.
Royal Mail screwing EVERYONE up by putting the prices up and bringing in parcel sizes because they couldn't cope with the amount coming through to them. This one really shafted Ebay shipping up 200% since 2012 because of this. Anything remotely big and you are losing so much margin on postage its stupid.

Ebay is dead and they made it that way. Tough for a them now, haha. I now sell virtually nothing on Ebay and what I do its my tat from around the house.

Yes, but from the OP's '3.4%' figure, it was quite obvious we weren't talking about micropayments in this case. I am aware of them but many people are selling items costing more than that.

Omg are You beeing serious? How checking if You got any offer isn,t checking? pipe down.

this has happened to me too many times. I only insist on cash/collect on high value stuff now

​i lost £50 in similar case.

Not if you sell stuff for a fiver it isn't - there was a 50% off FVF about a month ago, which meant a saving of 25p on every five pound sale for example, so if 40 of the listing allowance sold, then a tenner saved in total - not great, but a tenner can still buy some extra groceries for 'free', and better in my pocket than eBay's.

Got the £3 per listing final value fee and going to sell my Tom Tom runner 2 watch and my Samsung Gear s2 Classic and get a Samsung gear fit 2 - thanks OP

Not if you're on micropayments, which is 5p plus 5%, so a 1.99 freepost item is only 15p paypal fees against 27p - that's a huge percentage saving, and mounts up when you do a hundred or more a month. Selling at 99p freepost means 10p micropayments, 23.4p 'normal'.
Anyone who has to ask how to make a profit at 99p freepost needs to read through the seller discussion boards for various explanations.

I accepted and it said "You've already accepted" but it's not showing on the Seller Dashboard...

I totally agree not all cases are the same but 95% off the time eBay is bias and just script reading. No one actually cares about the seller. The seller is automatically found guilty until proven innocent.

I've won cases when someone with some sense actually read the details. But mostly the case is automatically found in the buyers favour, I had a case decided against me within 30 seconds of the case being escalated. Which shows all the proof I provided wasn't even looked at.

I've been selling since 2006 and did it as a full time job but it's no longer worth selling high value items.

Plus 20p, don't forget the extra 20p!

Wish I had seen this before I sold my old laptop for £265.. lol

Been selling on Ebay on and off for about 13 years, just under 5000 feedback.

It really has gone downhill so much. . Time was it felt like a proper little community asset.
Sure, you had the odd issue with an item going astray, but back then it more than likely did get "lost in the post", and you were able to resolve things is a nice amicable manner. The last couple of years everything I've sold has been sent 1st class recorded to protect myself, as that's essentially the only choice between making the sale, or losing the item and the money. I always try to give 0 feedback accounts benefit of the doubt, we all started somewhere, but so many attempts to scam. And that's before even getting onto the ridiculous charges now compared to the beginning. It's genuinely not worth selling anything for less than a tenner before postage.

It's sad, but what else do we have? I did try ebid, for 3 months, didn't make a single sale. it has the idea, just not the customer base.

Yes, I sell a lot on eBay but haven't had horror stories anything like as bad as some people mention (touch wood). Have lost a bit of money in the past due to the odd dodgy buyer, usually involving digital goods and paypal chargebacks, as protection for digital items is pretty much non existent, something I really think eBay/Paypal should work to remedy since games (and even movies/music) are going increasingly digital/download.

The aforementioned chargebacks are probably my biggest eBay worry as they are pretty much impossible to win, that said I have still managed to get my money back on a few occasions by complaining to paypal as if you can get a good CS rep on the phone they will sometimes refund it out of goodwill, which is actually REALLY decent of them, though that could be because the stuff I sell is mostly low value, they may not be so inclined to if a chargeback came up on a high value transaction....

A lot of fraudsters and messers on gumtree though, especially with face to face selling - they agree to buy something for £100 and turn up saying they only have £70. It's annoying if you go through it a few times...

Thanks will try and sell phone on there tomororw

Never had such issues with selling. Possibly luck or the fact that I only sell items that can't be argued as faulty (books).

There are a lot of liars and thieves out there waiting to steal from sellers at the earliest opportunity.I had a buyer whom claimed she did not get the item told courier another would deliver for 15 pounds manchester to sheffield when they had agreed fifty he took fifteen pounds I suggested and he got a signature on delivery she openly lied to me and said she did not recive it I told her to call the police and question who at her address signed for it.

Yes :smiley:

Considering buyers will still receive items then claim it is broken/lost I'll steer clear at all costs.

Got the £3 one cheers op time to sell my tv me thinks

It's NOT a check - IT'S ACTIVATION !!!

I've sold quite a lot of stuff on ebay (Around £25k over the years). I've had issues with two buyers and each time eventually ebay took my side, so it's not like the seller never 'wins'.

Cash on collection?

Ebay are utterly rubbish now with their high fees and unfair seller issues.

I was charged for all fees even with proof of sending and delivery when the buyer was a con and claimed they didnt receive the item. Called ebay and their script reading goons werent interested in anything other than re-reading their 'T&Cs' no wonder they are going downhill and need to spam us all with these weekly 'offers'. Theyve become a mass fake goods flee market!

Slightly off topic but... have been selling a few clothes on flea-bay with 20% to Charity. I didn't realise ebay would donate 20% of the postage as well as 20% of the selling price to Charity, consequently as I don't bump up the P&P I've "lost" money on the postage!
I asked their Live Help but all that came out of that is that I can confirm previous Chimps comment to be accurate.
When I look at all the ebay / paypal fees involved I should have just given them to my local Charity shop and cut out the middleman.
By the way, I received the £3 max final valuation fees email.

Virtually every Sunday recently there's been some sort of offer,so it's always worth waiting and checking on the bottom of your selling page first for any promotional offers.

Will have a look, thanks

Yep, I'm done with eBay , sold an Xbox live code on there laste week, made sure I put in the description that I would only post the code , heard nothing from the buyer , sent it out 5 days later, next day when they have received the code buyer puts in unauthorised transaction on account and my PayPal account goes into negative credit :disappointed: tried emailing buyer but refuses to answer .
Ah well unlucky mr scammer, try actualy using the code before trying to get your money back :laughing:

Thanks op

Yes. Just sold my monitor for £450.
Buyer paid cash so PayPal get nothing and eBay only get £1 from me. Result :smile:

clicked the link on the first page of this and got £1 - brilliant as son wants to sell his iphone 6, thats £30ish saved!

It's either, though you still have to pay an extra fee if you want a listing with both buy it now and auction.

is this for buy it now items or auctions..

Most people aren't even aware that eBay owns Gumtree.

Typical - listed an Xbone only a couple of days ago which has now sold. Would have saved £17.

I got £3 final value max selling fees

sweet, going to sell my surface pro 4 with this promo

Had this £1 offer a few weeks ago, you should list as free postage as you get a separate fee for the postage on top of the £1

Seconded, Gumtree is massively dependant on where you live and if you are not living in a major city you might struggle. I always use eBay despite the fees (which are high admittedly) because you have at minimum the whole country as your audience, the whole world if you want. Gumtree by comparison gives you the people that live within a few miles of you, maybe at best 20-30 miles if it's something someone really wants.

Also with Gumtree as there is no default online payment/postage options like eBay, you have to either invite total strangers to your home every time you sell or else arrange a meeting place, which is a pain if you don't have a car or drive. Too much hassle for me anyway, i'd take eBay warts and all for sheer reach and convenience....

This is great if you have some items over £10/£30 to sell. And I will be taking advantage of the offer for several things :stuck_out_tongue:. But really need 75% off final value fees as I have quite a few things which are worth £10-£15 which I want to shift.

So true. Some real idiots buying on ebay and yet it's always the seller's fault. I had a courier damage two items that were shipped at the same time one week and both buyers immediately left negative feedback for me, despite the fact that it was obviously the fault of the courier and despite my offer to despatch a replacement even before the original was returned. Buyers need to understand that feedback is about the transaction as a whole, not just one aspect of it, and that negative feedback can be quite serious to a seller who relies on ebay for an income. I think buyers shouldn't be able to leave negative feedback unless they've opened and won a case against the seller - but then like you said ebay always sides with the buyers anyway, although I was pleasantly surprised recently when I won an item not as described case just like yours (ordered black, got black, complained it was black) where the response from eBay was quick and sounded like an actual human wrote it, saying 'The buyer clearly got what they ordered so the case has been closed in your favour and we're sorry for any inconvenience'. Didn't stop them leaving negative feedback though, did it?


Edit - And it turns out that these recent undeserved negative feedback comments have put my seller account 'below standard' which makes me ineligible for this offer, so I'm unable to list more stuff to bring my account back up to above standard until my account is above standard. What?!

Got the £1 offer :smile:
Hope it actually does what it says if/when it sells.

Ebay got too greedy when they started wanting 10% of the postage, which RM keep increasing. It's just not worth the hassle to sell cheap items but you have to take the risk with expensive items.

Theoretically nice offer - but like so many others I'm sick of eBay's "the buyer is always right even when they are wrong" policy. Hot for offer cold for eBay selling!

look on the bottom of 'My ebay' page ('Promotional offers') and it should be there as 'Active'

I clicked on the 1st link and it said it accepted but I have not emails or any notification from eBay. Will it work

​The first link works and is only valid for 1 whole day. How exciting. Must sell my old underpants.

First time I've tried it so cant be that. Very strange

Also - for the second link I get "Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only."

Me too! Any suggestions? It worked for me last month when I used the £3 link, could it be because of that, I've already used it and can't be used again?

​Ebay has taken the idea of ustomers always right too far, there is no ebay without sellers.

Does anyone know if you have to accept PayPal for this offer or can you do 'local collection'?

Have some heavy items so would only accept cash when they collected them.

Thanks, got £1 offer!

I would also like to add another classic case:

You provide a title in the listing and eBay searches for it and offers your the exact item ( "Find this item's category or similar products below" ) and you select the item and list it.
Now the buyer opens up a claim saying that the item did not have a feature as detailed under the item information (ex: Bluetooth in my case in an MP3 player). Again its your fault so you would lose both your item and money and get a negative FB as a bonus ! eBay would say that they are not responsible for any errors in their own descriptions!

Lesson : Never accept the item that eBay offers you from their database when listing an item.

I never get these offers :disappointed:

For me it is so I am happy :smirk:

Nice one, thanks for explaining!!

Anything listed on the 12th or 13th June will incur just a £1 fee when sold. You can list an item as a 30 day buy it now sale, and if it sells on the last day it's listed, you'll still only pay £1. Same for 10 day auctions. Just make sure you list today/tomorrow - remember if you set the item as buy it now, you can update the listing text/photos later when you have more time.

I had exactly the same thing happen to me, pi55 take

12 to 13 what? Bananas?

So is it 1£ only when I sell between 12-13, or for items listed between 12-13 and sold for example 20 days later?

I get "Unfortunately, you can no longer sign up for this promotional offer because it has expired. "

How come its working for everyone else? :neutral_face:

On one of my eBay accounts which never gets promo's...I finally get this one :smiley: thanks op!

Thanks got the £1 offer

Yep. These are my thoughts too. I stand and stare and wonder with less audience on non eBay sites how easy it is to sell things at a decent price versus ebays great exposure and auction excitement. Which I must say has become less exciting over the years due to high fees and lower selling prices.
I've been procrastinating so long that everything I had to sell now has depreciated it is probably no longer worth the effort

​since when was paypal fee 10%?

I've found quite the reverse, living in the North, Gumtree is pretty useless, in fact I listed one item on both and it sold on Ebay.

Gumtree is good if you know the value of the item or happy to make £x but, where you want to see what it makes, the auction format can be quite beneficial.

mike

Ebay buyer protection is ok.....unless it involves EBAY themselves! I got a £30 voucher from an earlier selling promotion.....I then used this to buy an item from a sellers shop (seemed pretty safe)....seller contacted me 2 days later to appologies as the item was out of stock and sent a refund. EBAY then goes into my paypal account and takes back the £30. I contacted EBAY and they refused to re issue the voucher.
BUYERS PROTECTION? NOT IF IT GOES INTO EBAYS COFFERS!

I list all of my items on both eBay and gumtree. I find gumtree to be relatively successful these days. I'm in London.

Thanks, only got the £3 offer. Out of the pile of stuff I have to list only one would be over £30 to benefit. Wish they would run the 75% off listings again.

Paypal fee is 3.4%...

Yup, I got this a few minutes ago. £1 max final selling fee's. This has to be their best promotion yet!

Thanks, got the £3 offer, will come in handy with some very high value Lego sets I've got listed.

​What are You talking about...?

eBay needs seller will WIN a case offer.

A week on eBay
1) Had proof of delivery, but buyer claimed item didn't arrive.
2) Item arrived a day late, no fault of my own - negative feedback.
3) Item sold as faulty and spares/repair, buyer complained item is faulty and wanted a full refund while keeping the item....
4) Someone bought a item that was blue in colour and then opened a case as "item not as described, reason being: item is blue.

Like wtf ebay do you have chimps reviewing cases?

Yeh. but 10% paypal fee.... c r a p !

ll0p

Not for me as usual, wanted to get rid of my gtx 980 as well so would of come in very handy. Oh well.

Yup, selected accounts only

You can check both here:

http://www.rsvp.ebay.co.uk/rsvp/signup/3286/

http://www.rsvp.ebay.co.uk/rsvp/signup/3289/

I got the £3 offer, but it is only good if you are selling items well over £30 to benefit. I have one item that will benefit from this.

Got the £1 offer too. Quickly end then relist current items! :wink:

Got it. thanks mate