Reserve fee

[cariadjewellerystore]

Absolutely scandalous add no a fee for a reserve price. **bleep** fuming I have just had to pay over £300 for reserve prices for items that never got sold or had any interest in whatsoever. **bleep** furious where can I go for this. 

[soh.maryl]

You can go to the place where all of eBay's various fees are explained clearly and read about it.  That is your only option.  Instead of using a Reserve, which, as you have discovered, costs money, why not just start your listing at the very least price that will be satisfactory to you?

Or, since, it appears that you are in the UK, you could ask your question on your home site.  

[lakefor94]

If there is a next time, start the auction at what is the least you can take for the item. Do not use a reserve.

Reserve fees are fully explained. A seller just has to read.

https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/selling/seller-fees#:~:text=Reserve%20prices%20are%20an%20optional...

[kensgiftshop]

You didn't check what the fee's would be before listing?

Don't use a reserve, just start the auction at the price you want.

[wastingtime101]

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@cariadjewellerystore wrote:

Absolutely scandalous add no a fee for a reserve price. **bleep** fuming I have just had to pay over £300 for reserve prices for items that never got sold or had any interest in whatsoever. **bleep** furious where can I go for this. 

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I suggest going here @cariadjewellerystore to learn how eBay fees work:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/fees-private-sellers-activated-managed-pay...

If you have additional questions you may want to discuss this over on community.ebay.co.uk since that's where you listed your items. This is the .com site.

[jerseyboymusic]

 That's why doing Buy It Now listings work better than auctions!

[bashort]

as mentioned do not do reserves, on top of the fee many buyers myself included will not even look at a auction with reserve.

[ckimodog]

@cariadjewellerystore 

Sorry for your situation.  Coming on to this forum and cursing solves nothing and is disrespectful.  This is a US community discussion forum and you may be better served by logging out of eBay.com and into eBay.com/uk to get the help and advice you need:

http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Discussion/ct-p/13

Good luck!

[powell-memorabilia]

through those high fees, eBay is discouraging use of reserves. Buyers hate them. They really make very little sense – sellers should just start an auction at the lowest price that they will accept for an item.

[stephenmorgan]

During the process of creating a listing if I select to add a Reserve the reserve fee is shown. The total of all fees are shown before the listing is completed.  I can list many, many items at the same time and just before the final accept there is a message stating the fees.

Sometimes if you call eBay and convince them you did not understand the fees they will remove the fees.  Worth a try?

[monica-sells]

Where can you go? Not sure...but they tried to let you know it would be a fee BEFORE you listed it (twice)

[tobaccocardyahoo]

Reserve prices are a useful tool for the right product, at the right starting price at an auction.

They can encourage spirited bidding, and encourage buyers to keep bidding because someone else sees the value in the item, while they protect the seller.

Given the number of auctions on Ebay which should not be auctions but fixed price listings, reserves should be used rarely. Although Auctions have fallen to a relatively small percentage of Ebay listings, there are far too many auctions given the number of items which sell on 1 bid.

You should take the for a reserve price as a deterrent to using reserves and using auctions.

It is unlikely that any change is going to occur in Ebay's auctions which does not discourage the use of auctions further.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@cariadjewellerystore wrote:

Absolutely scandalous add no a fee for a reserve price. **bleep** fuming I have just had to pay over £300 for reserve prices for items that never got sold or had any interest in whatsoever. **bleep** furious where can I go for this. 

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I'm not sure you really want advice or if you just came to cuss us out but I'll bite. 

Instead of starting your listing at £1.00, why not just start it at whatever you set the reserve price? 

You do realize that when you ended the first listing, it was charged the reserve fee and then, when you relisted it, you were charged the fee again, right? 

You should have let the first listing run then, if it didn't sell, relist starting at the higher (reserve) price. 

[toomuchstuffagain35]

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@stephenmorgan wrote:

During the process of creating a listing if I select to add a Reserve the reserve fee is shown. The total of all fees are shown before the listing is completed.  I can list many, many items at the same time and just before the final accept there is a message stating the fees.

Sometimes if you call eBay and convince them you did not understand the fees they will remove the fees.  Worth a try?

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Doubt they'll get far with that attitude lol

[redmodelt]

Guessing that the OP's listings can't be seen on the USA eBay.com site or were listed on a different account because I don't see any sold/completed listings in the past 90 days looking from here.  

Not saying this didn't happen, just that am not able to see the item being talked about. 

300 GBP would be around $383 US.

Unless the reserve fees are different re the maximum (as in higher), don't see how it could have been the 

more than 300 GBP? 

Below is taken directly from USA eBay fee schedule: 

Selling fees | eBay

Reserve price Set a minimum price that must be met for your item to sell

$5.00 or 7.5% of reserve price, whichever is greater (maximum fee $250) Charged whether or not your item sells