A late ebay sale before the new regime kicked in was caught up in the new payment regime due to the buyer not paying until the 4th February. Auction value was £500 and to try and avoid any blow back I sent it yesterday special delivery by 1pm today. Unfortunately the buyer was not at home and delivery is noted as attempted only. Ebay will not release the payment as the buyer does not physically have the card in their hand and I am left without card or cash until they decide to collect it from the post office.

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Originally posted by gmmk1964:
A late ebay sale before the new regime kicked in was caught up in the new payment regime due to the buyer not paying until the 4th February. Auction value was £500 and to try and avoid any blow back I sent it yesterday special delivery by 1pm today. Unfortunately the buyer was not at home and delivery is noted as attempted only. Ebay will not release the payment as the buyer does not physically have the card in their hand and I am left without card or cash until they decide to collect it from the post office.

At least you should only have to wait a day or two for the money to be available. One of my recent sales went to the States and took over four weeks to arrive going via a tracked and signed for route.

I've not read the full details of the new rules but I wonder if you fail to use a tracked route will you simply never get paid as there will be no record of any delivery ? If everything has to go via a tracked route, then low value sales are going to cease as they will no longer be viable.

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Originally posted by Kevin F:
I've not read the full details of the new rules but I wonder if you fail to use a tracked route will you simply never get paid as there will be no record of any delivery ? If everything has to go via a tracked route, then low value sales are going to cease as they will no longer be viable.

I think you're supposed to get payment after 14 days if delivery hasn't been logged. Or no buyer has contested the transaction, so that's where the potential scammers can have some fun too, especially if the postie or courier has bad zapping skills to mark the item as delivered.

From several forums I've read that lots of sellers that were selling off comics and things for maybe £1-3 per item were saying the tracked postage requirement will kill off their sales. It's not worth them bothering.

Meanwhile, ebay holding onto your funds all these extra days, get a nice lot of interest accumulating on that money. How fortunate for them...

I've just sold a sketch to someone in the States and put it in the post using Royal Mail International Tracked and Signed For. Hopefully, I will have access to the resulting funds before the end of the current financial year

Update: to my surprise and amazement, the card reached the buyer on the 18th Feb ! So I can get at my money today

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One side effect of these new rules is how the prices now appear in listings. I don't know about others here in the UK but when I did a general search for something, i.e. not country specific, I could always spot overseas sellers because their prices never or rarely ended in '.99'. '.00' or '.50'. They were always some random seeming number due to the exchange rate being applied by eBay to show the price in GBPounds. Now every listing ends in this random number version/appearance due to the addition of the new buyers fees. Oh what fun

I sold a couple of things recently on Buy-It-Now and when you set up the price on the listing page, ebay showed me(in small little place above the box) what the total price would be at the price I set, so I fiddled around until my price was rounded off, to look less odd and on a whole number.
That all changes with best offer and gets a bit messy, but for a basic price-set it was helpful to hide/blend in and look less obviously 'private seller' in the listings.

I have noticed I am getting offers from the UK in amounts other than whole pounds like a card I had listed at £100 someone offered £76.23 .

Wondering if this is the bidder taking the Ebay buyers fee off or is it Ebay themselves doing it ? Offers from overseas are still in whole amounts .

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Originally posted by Triple-Frog:
I have noticed I am getting offers from the UK in amounts other than whole pounds like a card I had listed at £100 someone offered £76.23 .

Wondering if this is the bidder taking the Ebay buyers fee off or is it Ebay themselves doing it ? Offers from overseas are still in whole amounts .

Yeah the UK offers are really screwy in amounts and I couldn't really work out what the person offered in the first place, even using the 4% + 75p thing. That part wasn't easy to work out and certainly not to think up a counter-offer. It takes a bit more thinking about... but the usual applies as to whether you accept an offer or not. But, yeah, it really threw me off too.
Edited to add: I still don't really know how those odd amounts are that odd, either.