If for some reason you're subscribed to this thread but haven't yet listed your items; step on it.
Deal closes midnight tonight.

Very cunning! Will give it a go. Thanks for the tip

Yes you change the category! I have seen people say in the past that you can't or it charges you more. But this is not the case. I even tested it one of my auctions. DVD now is in the holiday category. Just takes a while for eBay to amend - and no extra charges either.

Probably no good as you won't be able to change the item category

if you have no bids yet then why don't you copy and paste your bike auction to one of the listings that is on the offer? You can click and see which of your auctions has qualified for the FVF offer - just go to your selling page scroll down to promotional offers and click on the number 5 on the used column.

I've just called ebay and about this and was told it was just the first 5 listings, which is really annoying as I have listed quite a few low value items but have a bike I need to sell which won't benefit from the offer.

Checked again via 'chat' (as the guy I spoke to sounded pretty clueless) and it confirmed that the offer has been applied to the first 5 listings :angry:

If we accept it (and the max £5 fee promos they've tried) in large enough numbers, then this will become the standard deal. Who would run a business differently? If customers hand over three times the revenue, that's what you'll charge.

The only way to prevent it is to (if you're able) ignore these offers and only activate the best ones like '£1 max fee'. Don't forget '50%off fvf' weekends - they are unbeatable for selling items under £20.

Exactly. Enjoy the pointless cycle suckers, I'll stick to quality jewellery from the shopping channel thank you very much.

Disappointing, I am not eligible for this.

Generally it's as long as you create the listings during the promotion period and then sell the items within 30 days of listing

Heat for the offer. Not checked yet if I am eligible but will do so.

Wuick question. How does this work? Is the max fee only for items you list within the period regardless of when they sell or do the items have to be listed AND sold within the period?

I've noticed that the £1 eBay offers tend to coincide with bank holidays.

My experience - List your item on eBay - it will sell, you get a good price and happy customer. List other places and you get timewasters and people not prepared to pay a good price. Fees reflect that I think. They have a very good business model. Also a starting point for many growing businesses. And as a software dev, I can tell you It's not hard to create auction site software - it would just be impossible to achieve the customer base ebay has now. They should pay taxes if due though I agree.

I haven't voted. I agree with faxmax above on this.

Oh, so you don't have one.

If it's cold to you, don't use it.

Yes, this is a deal compared to the regular and ridiculous 10% fee but unless you are in a hurry to sell something just wait for the £1 offer in a few weeks.

Going to sell my Galaxy S8 and put the money toward the new iPhone so this is a welcome deal - cheers OP

Just Wait for it to roll around again.

Assume first 5 to sell.

Please post the current £1 final value fee link.

Got it via email, so listed 10 items to start tomo, don't know how they will work out which max fee to apply to which listing.

eBay in Poland had to accept 2.7% final fee as Poles failed to back them up to the level they expected and remained loyal to local competitors (clearly, more modest in appetite for customers' cash) .I am sure ebay will keep raising their commissions as long as people continue using them. The board and CEO have to justify their salaries and satisfy the shareholders who just do not give a damn as long as they get their ROI.There is no decency and mercy once you deal with monopolies and their claims of corporation responsibility or 'giving back to communities' make me laugh.

I find 10-15%+ commission for online auctioneer extortionate, at the end of the day they offer very little and their costs account for fraction of the 'normal' auction house expenses which offer premises, make the advert themselves and employ people to answer your call if you require.

Thanks op. :sunglasses:

Especially when you consider it has over 6 million members.

£1 fvf is better guys.

Ebay UK have just added 20% to all fees (for business sellers). So a 10% final value fee has now become 12% and a basic shop fee (which they have just massively increased) is now £25 plus vat so £30. If you post something and it used to cost you £3.95 it will now cost you £4.75 with the added rise.

The reason for this is that they are now claiming they are going to pay their taxes to the UK instead of being based in Luxembourg. Of course they won't pay anywhere near to the 20% they are collecting so it really is just another way of creaming off some more from the customers.

At some point they are going to price themselves out of the game because of their pure and utter utter greed ...

Thank you

What like the deal they had 2 weeks ago?
Not the OPs fault you missed it, voting cold.

He just stated that it's his favourite offer. Anything wrong with that?

Freebies do too. What's your point?

saves everyone a fortune, my favourite offer on here by far.

Explain how it isn't?

Heat from me. I paid £500 in eBay fees last month to sell some Macbook pros..

‌ :raised_hand:

Promo or not, it's not a "deal", old pal.

Didn't work for me - says by invitation only


Unfortunately, that didn't work for me - says the offer is by invitation only...

Got the offer and scheduled 4 listings for now, cheers!

Thanks Ebay! :smile:

Your business incentives for customers £1 listing / £3 listing now and so on ... Really are appreciated :raised_hand:

Hope this isn't instead of 1 quid offer now :disappointed:

Hot

just sold a wii u and a load of games saved me £20....nice find op... heat added

Not necessarily a deal, but definitely a big part of the Circle of Hotukdeals:

1. Buy loads of stuff you don't need, but can't resist because it's so cheap
2. Stick aforementioned items on shelf
3. Realise you will never use items
4. Wait for ebay to put on a promo
5. Sell items at minimal loss / profit
6. Goto 1

Feel free to post a better eBay promo, old pal.

I don't understand why this is a "deal"?!

thanks OP, this will be handy to sell older iphones without being ripped off.

Most people get that all year round

Not a great deal compared to £1 max fees with 100 items limit campaign ebay normally runs

any category apart from usual excluded 'Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles and Property' categories

Haha! You're game :smile:

Got an email from ebay last night with this offer, not sure if will use it but I activated mine :smile:

Does this only work for phones or is it for any category?

I've only been sent an offer for Only Pay When You Sell (1st - 30th September).

worked for me, thanks!

getting invite only message?

Nope didn't work for me, said this promo offer is by invite only

Agreed, but we will probably get that next week. The 10 days coincidentally end around the same time the last £1 offer's 30 days would have been up.

So you've found a better desl and posted it

How to work

eBay are a bunch of fools - if they kept their charges lower and treated their sellers with some respect then they would get more people selling, rather than these stupid offers. I suspect they are seeing less business, having to advertise on TV for both them and their Shpock business. It is such a shame Amazon or someone don't have a truly competitive offer. One day! When I buy I always check if eBay is cheapest and often end up with a better, faster deal on Amazon. Shame they don't offer a cheap domestic seller option

hum, does this apply to the first 5 "sold" listings or just the 5 first listings?

Better than the usual rip off but not good enough imo.
Ebay's final fee level in the UK and US is ridiculous - ebay employs relatively few people (11000-12000 maybe), service is widely based on community support, they avoid being taxed, yet they still think 10% on top of other fees is ok.Not,it isn't.


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Got the offer myself...might bung on my like new xbox one s on sale...use this site to figure out how much I'll make :sunglasses:

Thanks op

Boo unusually don't have this offer

Thanks, I've got something that I'm looking to get over £200 for so it will save me a bit :smile:

Only 5 items though, normally you can list a 100 items, what a disappointment. I still waiting for them to send out th offer of only having to pay £1 instead of the usual 10%. Makes this a cold deal from me.

Deal link some one plzzzzz

Works for me. Thanks

Nice active for me, thanks op :smile:

Yep got it for a change

how much?

Still waiting for the £10 eBay voucher for listing a item.

I thought it was just for selling phones... But i was half asleep when i read the message.

Are all categories included??

GO TO ==> Selling, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you'll have it :smile:

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

Not all heroes wear capes thanks dude :sunglasses:

£1 offer not this month? :disappointed:

Only 5 items but for 10 days is a bonus. Happy with this :raised_hand:

Thanks just what I needed for my monitor!

Thanks. Heat addded

I got this. Not as good as the usual £1 maximum final value fee, but better than the regular 10% ripoff - so have some heat! Thanks.

Just checked my inbox and mine states "Valid from 10 September"
TY OP
cancelling my current items to re-list midnight ;-)

can someone post the offer link directly

No such message in my ebay inbox. May be account specific.

Valid from the 9th for 10 days so it should be in your eBay messages already if invited

Thanks for the heads up. I got the offer. Heat!

you have a link pls?
i often don't get messages but follow link posted and get the offer. thanks

How to find?

Same for me. Thanks! That'll make my iPhone a little cheaper to sell...