and by the way

[Surprised nobody else has posted this, but perhaps after the minus 200+ degrees of the 3 month promo, people are being careful.]

anybody who gives a ff about getting minus degrees should get a life

I often post good deals that I know in advance thick people simply won't 'get'

I got 75% off FVF last week.

I only sell if I am offered a voucher incentive or at least 75% off FVF.

WOW, instead being charged 10% + 3.75% paypal fee they'll charge me only 7.5% + 3.75% real offer! Another ebay rip off deal! So now on £400 item you'll be only charged almost £50 fee.... Perhaps NO THANKS!

Just to add...... for anyone who has got the 3 month 100 listings per day promo, this is an extra and so can be used for the higher value items still unsold, and you can actually list 100 + 100 on the same day.

Don't forget that once you have clicked to accept this offer, the first 100 single quantity listings after that will come off this promo and not any others, so list the cheapies either before accepting this promo, or after you have used all 100 - fairly obvious really, but there's always someone on the ebay forums who complains that they misunderstood.

Good luck to all who've got this and can use the full 100.

Yeah.. I know that know

While people continue to vote this HOT and think this is a good deal Ebay will keep ripping us off!
I think it's a disgrace how they think they can add "Final Value Fees" to your postage costs.

Here are the FVF's in Switzerland and they have a similar Free listing fee to the UK
retail price sales commission
Not sold No commission
CHF 1.00 - CHF 100.00
4% of the selling price
CHF CHF 100,01- 1000,00
3% the selling price of CHF 100.00, plus. CHF 4.00
CHF 1000.01 and higher
1.5% the selling price of CHF 1000.00, plus. CHF 31.00
No fee on postage costs!

It used to be okay to sell on Ebay but I now only sell when they have good offers, which this isn't!

I had the £1 fee offer last week.
Listed my item with - quantity 2, as obviously I had 2 to sell.

Little did I know it was only valid on single item listings :'( £55 in fees because I didn't read the small print.

Hopefully someone reads this and doesn't make the same mistake

It's been on before,that wasn't the first time.

£200 of notes i will be scrutinising closely :laughing:

Not a great deal but better than paying 10% FVF. Preferred the pay £1 Max or £2 Max fees offer of a few weeks back but that must have cost eBay a fortune in revenue so would be surprised if we see it again.

Just a couple of minutes to end and relist what I currently have up - cheers for the heads-up!

I never seem to get these, is it because I don't sell anything?

same here

Loving the ebay deals

Voted HOT, HOT, HOT!

eBay fees are far too high. Cold.

i dont get these people, i just get people wanting their money back for stupid reasons

Face value farts?

Hot as anything better than the normal fees are a good offer, but you usually get at least one offer per month lasting 2 or 3 days. In the past while there has been 75% off final value and £1 max fees. So keep an watch out for email invitations and remember you have to accept the invitation before the offer is valid, if you list anything during the promotional period without accepting the offer first you will still pay the normal fees.

You missed my point. If you sell on ebay your fees are covered by people paying more than they would at a boot sale or gumtree...

Eg. sell an item for 250 on flea bay. Fees. £25. Ie you end up with £225.

Sell on gumtree for £200. End up with £200.

I've bought and sold plenty of high value things on Gumtree - normally musical instruments. As long as you stick to insisting on using Paypal goods and services and incurring a 3.4% fee you are largely as protected as you would be with Ebay and significantly better off in terms of fees to pay.

Ebay does my nut in - even more so now that they are taking a fee on postage. I once sold an electric piano through Ebay which weighted in at about 25kg and would be costly to courier but Ebay had none of that and still took a cut. I now put items up at inflated prices but ask folk to get in touch for a private sale if they want it cheaper. In total breach of the rules but has worked well for the past 2 years or so.

If someone pays £50 more then you have more fees to pay....u n d e r s t a n d now?

Thanks OP! :smiley: Was showing in the offers section of my eBay account but didn't think to check because they didn't email me about it.

This.

Don't know how anyone can afford to sell on ebay and make a profit.

Voted hot by the way, as there no down side technically to this deal, but I still think eBay is extortionate.

If you are not getting the offer, worth checking you have a tick next to the communications preference for email offers. I didn't, but have now, takes two minutes to find under account settings and communications.

Lol

People still use ebay? After the horror stories of the buyers having insane rights, and abusing them by ripping off the seller, I haven't been back.

I don't think hardly anyone was eligible for that one were they,maybe that's why .

You need to list it within the 3 day time frame,it doesn't matter when it ends.

might have been asked already, but if my listing ends after the 3 days, does it still take 25% off of the FVF? or only if the listing finishes within the 3 days?

Won't be selling anything else on ebay, buyer bricked my mp3 player then ebay backed the return

Very true along with a dozen other problems inc. trying it on after agreeing a price, not showing up, etc, etc.

Thanks. I missed the e-mail as I have been busy, so perfect to see this post.

Why is this in "Deals >> Home & Garden" ?

I have posted 75% off not long ago and it was voted bloody cold... hard to understand this site really, doesn't matter...

Gumtree is OK but for every ad I place I get about 8 or 9 people asking if it is still available. I respond quickly saying yes and never hear from them again.

25% off? With eBay and PayPal fees, I only sell with 75% off these days.

Thank you, cancelled the very small number of items I have currently have up and relisted them all. What I wonder is why don't I hear about a lot of these deals from eBay directly, yet when I log in, I am nearly always eligible.

I didn't get an email but it let me use this. Heat.

I suppose classing this as a deal is the best way to ensure as many people as possible read it, as I'm sure not everyone bothers to look through the other sections of hukd...... I know I don't have time, and so only ever scan through the deals.
Perhaps it's a bit like people posting grocery items which are much cheaper in one shop, but are the normal price for that shop, for example something on sale in Waitrose for a pound might always be 70p in B&M but still gets posted if someone hasn't seen it that cheaply before - is that technically a deal ?

Not everyone gets an email or perhaps they have so much other junk arriving that they could overlook the notification, whilst others have an email account purely for ebay and might not check it regularly enough to take advantage of the promo.
There are also cases every time there's a promo, of people not getting the email but clicking on the link and being able to use it - some you win and some you lose, but surely it's better to post these things and help a few people rather than not bother just because it's not open to everyone - I don't vote negative every time there's an amazon prime deal which I cannot use, or an instore deal for a supermarket which doesn't have a branch near me...... isn't this the same sort of thing really ?

Yeah the app is rubbish for offers like this you don't see them unfortunately.

Learn something new everyday!! Probably because I use the app rather than the desktop version, always just waited for an email, must have missed loads of offers :disappointed:

It's one of those questions which are frequently asked, but nobody has the answer to it - at one time some people thought it was to encourage those who had not listed for a while, but I list as much as I am allowed every month and I still get the promos.
I've had the odd negative feedback for something I can't control like damage or loss in transit, but still get the promos, so it's not only 100% accounts either - my best guess is that it's a combination of things like category as well.
I often sell in collectables, and perhaps ebay are trying to push that side of things, but then other family accounts used for clothing often get them.

There was a bit of a comment in that recent 3 month promo about illegal business sellers not paying taxes.......... I have my own small business not connected to ebay, so to be on the safe side, whenever I send in tax returns I declare everything bought on ebay as business purchases, and every penny of sold items is declared as earnings, so if there should ever be a close examination of my accounts, all the paypal stuff is in there as well - doesn't affect my tax situation and I can sleep soundly at night. :smile:

Wow, only your 2 comment and you're moaning :laughing:

I normally check my selling page & hadn't today so I hadn't seen this until I got the whatsapp message,I don't check the email for Ebay as that's all it's used for so I never look in there.

I am sorry but I do not see how this is a deal, if you get the email from ebay, you already know about it, and if you didnt you cant take advantage of it

Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only.

+1 :disappointed:

Cheers, don't have an email from eBay, and don't have a message from them through ebay, but the offer worked for me.

Pointless deal if by invitation only. If I would be invited I would be aware of that anyway...

Gumtree is a eBay company... so not be long :wink:))

Yes eBay are greedy when it comes to fees especially now they take fees from your own postage (which is a complete joke) but at the end of the day Gumtree is for local sellers, there could be people all over the UK & world that might want your item which is why I usually sell on eBay on that basis alone, anything else that is currently popular like latest phones etc I will sell on Gumtree

Yes sell on Gumtree or Proloved, Ebay are greedy *add your own phrase here*

As seems to be the case I'm not eligible for this, dunno why eBay hates me so much, they've had about £90 out of me in fees this month!

That's where they always are :laughing:

account specific...
Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only

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

You have to watch out for these overlapping deals as obviously the pay only a pound fees promotion was ideal for higher price items that started on 18th September,so BIN listed for 30 days that still stands so don't anybody make an error and end anything and relist with this new offer :laughing:

:smiley: thank you

I find these offers especially good for smaller sales under £20. For the bigger ones I like the capped (max £1 etc) offers. Either way, this is a deal, and as I sell on eBay I will be making use of it. Thanks OP. Heat added. :smile:

Possibly the worst place to sell anything of value. So many scallywags and con artists around it's untrue! At least with ebay we are protected and regulated by the website. With Gumtree you are 100% independent and if anything goes wrong on either side it's c'est la vie!

It says it's invite only?

Nice one, thanks.

Sell it on Gumtree

I got the 3 month offer and didn't get this one, but heat for the effort and exposing the pettiness of cold voters

I realise 25% off the ebay fee is not a lot if you only sell a couple of cheaper items, but if you sell even 10 of your listings, and the total price is £100 then you save £2.50 - again not a lot, but I see people on here go mad about a few pence cashback on quidco or topcashback.
At the end of the day it's something for nothing, and if you are not getting the 100 per day 3 month promo, then this is a chance to list an extra 100 items with no listing fee - regular ebay sellers usually keep listings in somewhere like drafts or scheduled (remember to keep changing the date or they'll go live with a fee !) ready for this sort of promo.

I have already listed my things a week ago, but I'll just go through my active listings and end those with a combination of highest price and shortest time left, so I get the benefit of the discount and a new 30 day period.

and by the way

[Surprised nobody else has posted this, but perhaps after the minus 200+ degrees of the 3 month promo, people are being careful.]

anybody who gives a ff about getting minus degrees should get a life

I often post good deals that I know in advance thick people simply won't 'get'

I had a promo for maximum final value fee £1 per item a fortnight or so ago. I signed up for ebay's promotional emails a while ago. It results in a fair amount of duff emails but just occasionally a gem.

75% off last week. 25% is not a massive saving.

i listed few items today after accepting above offer with 7 days listing? will it apply for those items?

Ebay have offers fairly regularly, I've had it twice with 75% off selling fees

Invitational offer only!

WOW, instead being charged 10% + 3.75% paypal fee they'll charge me only 7.5% + 3.75% real offer! Another ebay rip off deal! So now on £400 item you'll be only charged almost £50 fee.... Perhaps NO THANKS!

Last time they did this... one week later they did a "post for £1 max value fee" offer... so may just wait...

Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only.

Thanks OP

Doesn't work for me, says invitation only

Final value fee. :laughing:

I got 75% off FVF last week.

I only sell if I am offered a voucher incentive or at least 75% off FVF.

Im getting invitation only. Can i get an invite?

Unfortunately this offer is by invitation only. Error:(

what can I sell?

Thanks for that might be worth adding in description for us simpletons lol.

Thanks. Do love cryptic deals! And those who can decipher them.

What is final valuation fee?

Thanks!

Heat added OP. Activated offer. Ta :smiley:

Thanks. Been waiting for a deal before I sell some things

What's FVF? I don't have any suncream to sell.

cheers :smiley:

By invitation only. :disappointed:

Thanks

Not been given this :disappointed:
EDIT: I have been given it, not by email but at the bottom of my all selling page, the offer was listed! Never even knew that list was there, thanks op!!

Thanks for sharing! Was waiting for one of these, have a few bits ready to go on.

thanks got this

Just to add...... for anyone who has got the 3 month 100 listings per day promo, this is an extra and so can be used for the higher value items still unsold, and you can actually list 100 + 100 on the same day.

Don't forget that once you have clicked to accept this offer, the first 100 single quantity listings after that will come off this promo and not any others, so list the cheapies either before accepting this promo, or after you have used all 100 - fairly obvious really, but there's always someone on the ebay forums who complains that they misunderstood.

Good luck to all who've got this and can use the full 100.

thanks