Do you have to pay the final ebay charge on selling a car?

[Station]

My ebay auction came to a very surprising 340 quid, and looking through the insertion fee amount( £8 ) I found out there is also a 20% final fee! That makes £68 has to go to cuntbay on top of the 8 quid for allowing me to advertise on their wretched site. Obviously, I don't want to pay these crooked bastards anymore money than the insertion fee so is there any way to avoid it?

[trigger]

Don't think so but you sure it's that much?! just sounds like a lot, even for fleabay.And remember the if your receiving your payment via paypal they will charge you as well!

[Station]

Oooooh, I read it wrong and it actually says £20. I think that's not too bad.

[Station]

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/motorfees.html

[Mr Lobster]

£28 in total ain't bad really. Cheaper (and more effective) than AutoTrader.

[r.welfare]

Pogweasel can help here - if the buyer is up for it, you can both cancel the transaction in some way (after you get the money and he goes away with the motor, of course!) and save the FVF. The bloke I bought one of my 405s from did the same thing but I have no idea how it's done. It just means neither of you can leave feedback.

[Mr Lobster]

^ Thats what I did with the Alto. Just leave the auction running and once the buyer has given you the money, end the auction early et voila, no FVF.

[r.welfare]

This fella managed to do it after the auction ended, something to do with "the buyer and seller mutually agreed not to complete the transaction", I think.

[CortinaDave]

yep you open as a dispute, then end the dispute by mutual agreement. Hey presto no FVF.I however dont offer that to the seller when buying off ebay, because i go through quidco first,which means you get 40 per cent of the sellers fees

[VWPowered]

charged me 48e for advertising the mondeo, was sold but bloke pulled out, so told them to swing for the money as the cars still sat here...

[pogweasel]

http://rebulk.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... teReason=2

 

That's the link to cancel the transaction to save FVF's.

 

There ARE sad, pathetic pro-ebay tossers out there who will comb the net looking for folk 'encouraging' this sort of activity. Strangely these folk also hide behind 0-rated accounts on the eBay community forums. Tragic.

 

Anyway, IF you go down this road (which I couldn't ever personally endorse, of course!) I would suggest that you 'go halves' with the buyer - i.e. split the FVF reclaim down the middle, OK so you are still paying something, but not as much and not to a faceless corporation. Heck, just off ther bloke a fiver off or a couple of cold ones / freshly made clangers in exchange for a 'dubious' cancelleation. What do you have to lose!?