FAQ: Who is eligible?
eBay.co.uk registered private sellers who have been invited to participate but don't read their emails.

Good for you.

Here we go again - where else can you get worldwide coverage for items you are selling ....... free of charge unless you sell ?
I post to Brazil, Russia, Canada, most countries in Europe, and I only pay if I sell, so I set my selling price to allow for the fees, as does everyone else.
There's a lot wrong with ebay, but when I've got several hundred listings free of charge, I'm not complaining.

Thanks OP. Activated and time to relist. Cheers

FAQ: Who is eligible?
eBay.co.uk registered private sellers who have been invited to participate but don't read their emails.

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

Good for you.

Got a few PS4 GTA 5 games to sell but better with 75%fvf so gonna wait.

And my phone literally just sold!

thanks worked by pressing get deal.

by invitation only:(

Activated still a rip off with paypal fees on top..

didn't work here

thanks

Possibly a silly question but will this apply to auctions already listed, ending soon?

It's activated on my account anyway - thanks OP!

Thanks. Activated mine. This is the only time I will sell anything to avoid paying their full fees.

Didn't work for me. "Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only."

FINALLY! I'm eligible at last!

Sold a ps4 yesterday :-(

I have activated the offer. Do you have to list by the 21st or does the item have to end by the 21st?

Thank you op, heat added

<3<3<3 just in time!

Just closed my auction for my power rack and relisted, half fees :smile: thanks OP

Is their anyway to tell what previous listing final value fees will be, I listed a few things for the £1 max FVF, but have a few I'm not sure if they hit that promotion or not ..

Can't believe Ebay haven't changed rules to stop people delisting and relisting so much

I think they overlap them to confuse some people as they will forget that ones still live until the start of December on a BIN for 30 days.

thanks Debz, i planned to write the dates down but forgot

Just had this in my inbox :smiley:

I found out via another thread that if you look at the bottom of your selling page under promotional offers there's a "history" tab that shows all the previous promotions with dates,I never knew it was there it's very handy.

Thanks, just checked and got the offer (never get sent the emails). On for a decent amount of time as well, better get listing

Thanks very much OP, heat added.

Isn't pay £1 FVF better?? Cold.

ebay fees are disgusting. Beyond providing the infrastructure, which I appreciate is massive, they do virtually nothing but host the auction and still charge 10% whatever the final sales. I sold an item for £440 a few weeks ago and after ebay and PayPal fees, I ended up with £370.

£1 fee is better for anything over £20 i.e. Fee £2 less 50% =£1
But anything less and your saving

I seem to get that offer every few weeks, so unless you're in a rush to sell its cold or focusing on cheap items then its not worth it.

Course it's worth it for people who have listed anything after November 2nd when the last £1.00 offer was on.

Sold loads of stuff on gumtree,price it right,cash on collection job sorted.

Yes absolute ripper.....

so if you're selling something for £10 and you rather pay £1 instead of less than a quid? what's your logic...

I know what they mean regarding higher priced items but given this is the newest current offer I don't see how it's cold because who would list something and not use this offer if they have it now :confused:

I don't like the fees either, but EBay do a shed load of work. Firstly, hosting the infrasructure and protecting it from attackers is a huge job. Secondly, dealing with scams and rogue dealers, so they have a team of staff watching posts looking for this and third dealing with disputes. I sold a top that I bought on eBay as it was too small. The buyer said it was a fake. I showed eBay that I had bought it in good faith, so they let me keep the sale money AND refunded the buyer. To be clear this was eBay dispute resolution, not PayPal. So the fees are a kind of insurance that protect us if the sale goes wrong. I have used dispute resolution many times. Can't do that with gumtree.

It's by invite only this

Brilliant,so the buyer thinks the item was fake as they received a refund :laughing:

This is the reason its so expensive,they can afford to throw money away to anyone who makes a fuss,so the buyer and you got fully refunded of all fees and he kept the item ?

Thanks op. Great for low value items.

For those getting this offer, did any of you activate the 1p one recently?

I sold a ton of stuff after receiving a 1p FVF offer a few weeks ago and saved myself over £200 in fees. I've got more stuff to sell which I was going to do this week but would rather do it whilst having another offer like this one

Thanks for posting this. I wait for the 75% off or £1 fee to make it worth selling on ebay.

Invite only once again.

I've never had a 1p offer :neutral_face:

I'm waiting for £1 fvf again!

All very true but it costs ebay the same to list an item for £1 or £1,000. I too have used ebay dispute resolution (as well as PayPal) in the past but to the very best of my knowledge, their fee system isn't as high as it is for any other reason other than because they have an absolute monopoly on online auctions.

I had never seen a 1p offer, but did have £1 a month ago, and also a month before that. If I list with 30 day duration, there is often another offer to relist with such as now. Fortunately my bigger value items did sell last time around.

Of the things left, I plan to relist tomorrow with 10 day duration so they finish on Sunday 27th. With buyers getting an effective 5% back in Nectar points, I'm hoping there will be more interest and higher offers or bids.

Great worked for me. Thank you :smile:

and they also now add a % charge of the sellers shipping fee's which is the ultimate liberty!

I can't see the Nectar thing making much of a difference :neutral_face:

My items above £30 are on £1fvf e.g. TVs, PS4, phones.

I guess I got lucky with the 1p offer then, I hadn't sold anything on Ebay for years, it was just perfect timing as my brother and I had just decided to sell our Transformers collection. The offer was for 100 listings but only managed to get 71 done in time, I did the same as you said there Thursday to Sunday

My stuff went for over £2k, saving me over £200 with only £15 or so in Ebay fees after a few reserves and BINs etc :smile:

I wasn't accepted for this promotion, but I sold a £300 item the other week for the £1 fee offer, so I guess that's why.

Wish this was for business sellers too, my eBay fees were over 10k last month, 50% off would have been a nice xmas bonus !

does this also apply to Classified listings on ebay?

How do you opt into these types of offers? never receive anything through on my account.

Thanks

Man I should read the cr*p Ebay sends me from time to time haha

If you're selling that much you don't need any extras :confused:

Isn't there anything at all in your Ebay messages or anything when you go to your selling page on a phone or at the bottom of the selling page on the desktop site ?

Mine is listing fee and not final selling fee

WTF are you selling to pay 10 grand just in fees in a month?
I'm a business seller but have private account too (why not do that as well?).
As a business seller I get regular 'free' (zero) insertion fees for 7 days where I can list up to 50,000 items :confused:

Here's the blurb.
What is the promotion?
Create up to 50,000 listing(s) (with a starting price of £0.99 or more), during the promotion period, in an eligible category using the fixed price format on eBay.co.uk and you will not pay an insertion fee per listing (promotional rate) during the promotion period when you actively opt in to the promotion via the Sign up now link shown in this email.


Think about it. How the hell can anyone list 50,000 items, even if I had that many items, and each has to have at least one pic, in 7 days? Nonetheless, still a good deal for me. Can't remember when I last paid a listing fee.
It's extremely regular this offer, and I just wait till it comes around each time then list as much as I can in the time.

:smile:
Exactly! See my post above. What the heck is he selling to command ten grand of fees in just one month?

'Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only.'
Probably something to do with the fact I've just sold 4 grands worth of stuff on their £1 maximum FVF offer from last month.
eBay's great but only if you get the invites.

Glad people keep listing these offers though as they sometimes work so thanks OP.

I'm waiting for £1 fee offer.
this one is not that great,I have it in my promotion list.
if you don't take it, you are more likely to get offered other promos next time.

No, he sent me the item back, which rather amused me.

10 grand-a-month fees? As a business seller this offer ain't gonna be much use is it?


10 grand-a-month fees? As a business seller this offer ain't gonna be much use for him is it?

remember if you close an auction with bids on it, you will get charged the seller's fee

WOW Best eBay deal yet!
I'd rather have this than free listings week... anyday of the year!
I get stung soo bad by eBay as I sell expensive items and my final value fees are always 10% and then paypal takes a slice on top!

DAMNIT!
I get this... " Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only. "

Thank you for the link!

Will I be charged if I close auction and relist it.

If nobody has bid there will be no charge.

No, none of these ever appear. When I try and click the links posted on here I usually get told I'm not eligible.

already accepted for me!!

Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only.

Can anyone advise ?

I qualified by clicking link.
thanks op. sold a game already :wink:

Not getting at you in any way, but this just goes to show that many people rush in and start either listing or bidding without exploring the whole site and all the bits and bobs................... then go on the ebay forums (or here sometimes) and complain about something which is in the rules that they were in too much of a hurry to read.
Every time there's a promo on here someone asks if they can end an auction and relist, and also if the listing has to end within the time of the offer.
Not saying I'm an expert by any means, but I took a week of reading various ebay information pages as well as the buyer and seller forums before I started listing anything.

It's always worth having a look around the seller page, and also the new seller hub if you've opted in for that, and clicking on various drop down buttons to see what the options are - I found lots of interesting things I could find out and information obtainable with a simple click.

My seller performance is low due to a few transactions being cancelled which means eBay won't allow me to take advantage of these offers sad times. I wouldn't mind if it was for a month. But it has now been 3 months.

don't know why heat as only selected members get this not everyone !!!!!!

Ahh first Ebay offer which i've not been eligible for

The cost of selling it should be. Ebay have fierce competitors these days!

Puzzled by the logic...... if they're selling that much it doesn't mean that it's 50% profit, otherwise every big seller would be a millionaire.
Every business has overheads, and the bigger the business then usually the bigger the wages, rent of premises, insurances and so on - have you any idea how much it costs to rent an industrial unit, or get insurance cover ?
For every member of staff, very often the employer has to pay the same amount to the government as the employee gets in wages, so add all the costs up and you might begin to understand why massive companies with lots of sales actually go bankrupt - recently there was British Home Stores, and there's talk of New Look having a bad time, but yet their shops are still busy.
I'm a very small business owner with only me working over six days a week (Not like charity shops who get free labour), but I wish I had a pound every time I've overheard people say something like ''so and so's never short of a few bob, got their own business you know'', when they really have not got a clue how many hours that person puts in or what their business expenses are - very often there's almost nothing left after paying bills, and it's only pride which prevents many business owners from closing the door and going unemployed to actually get more money and a lot less stress.

Depending on your selling limits and how much you've been restricted, you need to find something to sell for almost no 'profit' and try to increase your scores.
Lots of people sell cheap 99p freepost stuff to get turnover and help balance the negatives - look on the seller forums where there's usually someone willing to give advice, or read a story similar to yours and see how they dealt with it.

Thanks was considering that

Don't understand how these hit the front deals of HUKD, I'm not an ebay seller and barely use it, but if the offer is invitational, doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of this site?

Oh here guys, we're selling PS4's at £100 here at Argos, come get one RIGHT NOW! Oh-, no, wait, it's only for you, you and you, the rest of you can SOD OFF.

I think you are confusing listing fee with final value fee !, if you are an eBay anchor shop you can list unlimited items for free and just pay the final value fee. Which is more or less 10% of the total price including shipping. An anchor shop subscription is a little past £217.00 a month but then you don't pay any listing fees so works out a good price if you run a business on eBay with 1000's of listings.

the £1 offer was amazing saved about £70
this is still a hot offer..

Did not get the invite this time but probably because I managed to get over a thousand pounds in sales while £1 FFV was running.
But what I did notice yesterday is that I have a £15 off voucher for £75 and over purchases, expiring 18/11. Now this doesn't appear anywhere on eBay, so if I wouldn't check my email, then most likely I would miss it. Email was received on 15/11 so check yours!

Are the emails with this offer just found in your eBay messages inbox? Or just your email account?
I've never had an offer on FVF from eBay but fortunately I used the HUKD link on the November £1 max fee and I'd like the £15 voucher too...

Just on email, mate.



But don't worry if you did not got the email. If you have it, then all you need to do is find an item on ebay for £75 or more (without postage) and you should see something like this:



Hope it helps! :smiley:

Possibly a stupid question - but the way I read it - it seems to say - list 100 items but the 50% FVF will only apply if it sells before black Friday?? Just me being dyslexic?

:smiley:

You just need to list items within the start date it doesn't matter when they end.

Thanx for replying. I understand it doesn't matter when it ends - but the way it reads, to me, is that if it ends after black friday (I use BIN auctions so they all will) that the 50% off wont apply. Im probably just being picky - not even sure they can do that ?

I don't read it that way at all and no other promotion has ever worked like that.:smile:

Very true. Must just be me. Did get an email (which I am still awaiting the fall out from) saying they messed up my fees last month and they would update me in 72 hours with a revised invoice.

You mean you're waiting for £1, or you have already been sent the offer which you're on?

The items I currently have listed that are over £30 are currently on £1fvf but as I have items to sell below £30 in price then I am waiting for 75% off fvf or £0 fvf which I have received a long time ago.

Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only me to got two acc and nit working ... guess Im selling to much .... theefs !!!! :smiley:

Yep, obviously they have to maintain the site but you're right, all those transactions per second and the fee's - Someone is getting very rich!