Generally even if they do save a customer money in some way, it's ultimately designed to increase revenue either by gaining more customers, and / or getting new and existing customers to spend more at once (through things like bulk purchase / package deals etc).
I mean in this case eBay has the opportunity to take a decent chunk of PayPal's revenue (not all as PayPal can still be used), so they'll be increasing their revenue straight off the bat, though there will still have to be payments to Adyen and all the other payment services, but eBay will be getting a revenue stream they never had before, and right out the gate they had the genius idea to ream sellers through multiple service fees on a single order. That's a bit like Neflix saying it's $10 a month for all the streaming you like, but if you watch more than one title a day, it's $1 extra for each title. (Still mad. Will probably always be mad about it, unless they don't introduce it here 
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@digital*ghost wrote:
@lm-entertainment wrote:
more info is located at https://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/managed-payments
"Simplified fees"
"Most sellers will see overall savings."
If they can surmise that, then I can't see why they wouldn't be revealing the fees yet.
They actually said exactly the same thing, pretty much word for word, when they got rid of the tiered FVF rates, lol - if they bring the same fee structure here that they have in the US, where they charge a USD25c per-item (listing) transaction fee rather than a 30c per-transaction flagfall like PayPal does, many sellers who frequently sells 2+ different items in an order will be paying higher fees, and in cases like mine, significantly higher. (In other words, I also do not volunteer as tribute / guinea pig for the new system
Yes if this is what they do, then it's inevitable that I will have to pass those costs on to my buyers. Almost all of my transactions are combined purchases.
I'd also like to know how this is going to work in terms of refunds - especially partials, which I do all the time because people don't wait for invoices and overpay on postage. The reason I originally decided to only accept Paypal was because I got caught out sending a partial refund to a buyer, and it actually cost them a fee to receive the refund because of the payment method used (I don't recall what it was). Given that we will have no control over which payment method a buyer uses, this could be a problem ... not to mention that partial refunds will likely not be instant, like Paypal's, because it seems as if they will involve taking money out of my bank account to put into someone else's.
eBay did a live stream this morning talking about managed payments - lots of fluff and little of any real substance (IMO) over the near-half hour, but top takeaways were:
FVF will be an all in one cost, and will vary by category (as FVFs do now), 30c transaction fee (which I understand is per invoice, not per item, so I hope my relief and 
There's a section where they talk about registering as either a legal entity (registered business) or sole trader (no registered business, trading under own name). No provision for sole traders who are a registered business under a business name, but not a PTY LTD (or similar) company, though, which is what I am.
For anyone who wants some background noise...
