Been selling loads of stuff on local facebay recently, ok quite a few numptys but most are good, no messing about posting stuff etc and no fees, I think ebay need to rethink their pricing it's just too expensive those days.

You mean £30.

I price all mine tracked. This was the advice to deal with the scammers - of which there are many.

got my invite, ta.
I have not paid any listing fees this year as ebay give 100 listings a day free.....Much better than it used to be.

I'd go ballistic if my bank charged me 3.5% to transfer some cash.

Obviously. Best thing to do with a deal like this is to include the postage in the (capped offer) price and then list it with "free" postage...

Wonder how many of today's playstation deals will end up using this, if they're honored of course... Heat :smiley:

I'm sure the money did not reach your account via a magic carpet. 3.5% is reasonable for a 3rd party to manage the money transaction. Do you expect them to do it for free?!

Paypal fee is actually 3.5%, I recently sold something for £160 and Paypal mugged me for £5.64.

Presumably you can sell non-electrical items as long as you list it in the electrical categories? I know that's slightly risky as you are relying on those who are searching for a specific item as opposed to browsing, but it could be worth it for a Buy It Now listing.

Invitation only. Dam!

Thanks OP!

People voting cold because the offer is not applicable on their account is a shame.

I can understand your annoyance with some buyers, but if you check various threads on the ebay seller forums, the view of many sellers now, is that no news is good news, and they're happy if there's no complaints never mind expecting good feedback.
Many blame eBay's constant promoting the idea (around a year ago it was in big banners all over the site) that you get your money back if not happy - this seemed to give buyers the idea that excellent service was the minimum they should expect, and anything less than perfection was enough to give negative feedback and a refund for the fun of it.
I sell in a category fairly immune from nasty types, and would not want to be a seller of clothing or high end electronics.

Unless you're a mega seller everyone pays 10%, but if you regularly sell cheaper items, especially a couple of pounds freepost, then go onto paypal micropayments which is 5p plus 5% rather than the basic 20p plus 3.4% for each invoice - buy cheap postage online and you can get to keep around 40p on a 99p freepost sale, so if something only costs a few pence, it's a huge profit margin.... that's how some bigger sellers earn good money

Hot. but will still no doubt get hammered with Ebay fees some how.

I used to charge a pound for postage, which was only 55p second class, so it included packaging - buyers understood and no problems, but it depends on category.
Many sellers have now gone to free postage to avoid low stars for postage.

Does it have to sell within the 11-19th or can i list on last day (19th) and sell it 3 days later (22nd) ?

the one which is not useful to me should be voted cold....
I didn't get this offer...so take a cold vote...

Thanks. Worked for me and have an iPhone to sell :smiley:

Fair play, didn't know this.

Calculate the amount that you need to charge to make it so you're not paying for the postage then.

So I charge £2.85 for postage and spend £2.85 on postage and also get charged 28.5p? Not my definition of "perfectly reasonable". They certainly didn't do this in the past and I'm sure people occasionally would try it on but it's just as much taking the whatsit on ebay's part now.

They might do it for companies/traders but not for me. There should be some system where you can prompt for feedback and then get positive if no response. I sent polite messages to buyers asking if items arrived and all OK etc. (and that after posting within 1 working day in most cases). Not a word from about 50% of them. Pig ignorance, apart from anything else.

There's a maximum you can charge for postage.

It's perfectly reasonable for them to do this, I was going to sell a phone for about £250 on ebay in the next week (less now because of this offer) what would stop me from putting buy it now £1 plus £249 postage and then only giving ebay 10p?

Amazon is the king for this kind of dubious buyer feedback practice. It's so bad that the general rule of thumb is that even if items on Amazon have 4.5 Star rating, it may still be a shoddy, poor quality product that you should avoid at all costs. 4.5 average rating, far from being a good product, is more like a medium rating on Amazon. I've learnt that items with 5.0 Star rating average are, surprise surprise, generally worth buying.

When I was starting out in online journalism through ODesk I was approached multiple times to write bogus 5-star reviews for products (like weight loss pills, hair growth products) in exchange for a small payment. Amazon is riddled with this horrendous practice, so I hope eBay's seller rating isn't abused to the same extent.

I now feel a bit less guilty for buying a 980, now I can sell my 970 and reduce the upgrade cost by another tenner :smile: thanks OP

Oh no,I was desperately waiting for such promotion for over 2 weeks..finally gave up and sold an electronic device worth £400..I was destroyed by ebay and paypal fees..next day this promotion shows up..
very nice.

10% FVF on things has killed Ebay for me.

I just sold 20 copies of a Steelbook, once the FVF fee, paypal fee and postage comes out, its hardly worth bothering with.

why are people going into super lengthy discussions without even trying to use the offer? this offer is via invitation only and does not even work, so super cold from me, should be expired.

I've had a couple of "deals" recently. The last one was 75% off which was actually quite good for shifting cheaper items. This deal is great for expensive stuff - and you get 8 days rather than 3 for the earlier offers I got.

Some Ebay users do brass me off. Knock myself out to package properly and send promptly and they can't be bothered to acknowledge receipt, never mind leave feedback.

The part that bugs me most about it though is that if you pay for postage through PayPal, they do not discount it to 'reimburse' you for your paid fees on postage. You get a very small Royal Mail discount, but that is it. In my mind, if you sell something and take payment through PayPal, and then pay postage through PayPal for the same item, the discount on postage should be the fees you paid on receiving that money. Otherwise they are taking fees twice, once from you as a middleman who is probably not trying to make any money on postage, and once again from the courier.

Of course PayPal is a company and wants to milk as much money as they can from people, but at least if they did that then it would be more reasonable.

I have a graphics card that I want to sell, is it eligible for the £3 max final fee?

Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only.....Cold not for all :disappointed:

Not sure when they started charging a fee on postage but that's a laugh. Postage is what you pay to, err, post it. (I know people used to take the micky overcharging for post but charging 10% of an amount you don't keep is daft.)

​thanks David. time to let go of my ps3 and 35 games

It's higher than that, and it's important that people are aware:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/ebay-fees-paypal-motors-listing-5311698

eBay take 10% of sale price including postage. Paypal takes another 3.4%. So 13.4% of the final sale price is lost. This is a lot higher than it used to be.

Personally I have found myself selling more and more on Amazon Seller's Market, where the fees vary but generally you pay 12%.

I activated this offer but i have auctions that are in progress, will this offer apply to them auctions when they finish ?

can i sell a ps3 on this

Superb, added to mine just in time for the iPhone 6 going on when the 7 arrives on Friday!!

Worked for me, thanks for the heads up

thanks op

Check out Ebid no where near as popular as ebay but you might get a few sales on there, believe its only 3% commision.

Yup. 10% off final sale price including postage plus another 3% from paypal. No wonder they are constantly trying to get me to sell stuff by promoting no insertion fees. No thanks ebay.

Then 20p and 1.5% take from paypal. Its a joke...

Been selling loads of stuff on local facebay recently, ok quite a few numptys but most are good, no messing about posting stuff etc and no fees, I think ebay need to rethink their pricing it's just too expensive those days.

thats pretty good, been meaning to put my old ipod on for ahes

good spot but I never use Ebay these days after the negative experiences I have had .. only use Gumtree and Preloved now and I always get good money for my items.

Yeah sorry

"Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only."

So sell anything over £300 and you're winning

Thanks op! Just what I needed.
oh shoot, just had an auction end last night around 9pm and I'll be paying around £80 in fees....

Thanks for posting...just what I needed!

Voted hot but it was so much cheaper back in the days.