Bidzzy vs eBay — Fees, Buyers and Which Suits Your Stock

The two platforms at a glance

What it means that Bidzzy is new

Bidzzy launched in June 2026, so it is a young marketplace still building its audience. That shapes how you should use it.

A new marketplace has two things going for it. Competition inside any category is thin, so a decent listing is seen rather than buried on page nine. And the platform is keen to attract sellers, which is why the fee structure is as generous as it is.

The thing to plan around is audience size. eBay, as a listed company, publishes its buyer numbers every quarter; Bidzzy, like most private start-ups, doesn’t publish trading figures yet. So the best way to judge it is by your own results.

The sensible approach with any young marketplace is the same. Put a representative slice of your stock on it, give it eight weeks, and judge it on what actually sells rather than on the fee table.

Fees, and who actually pays them

This is where the two platforms look most different and, for a lot of UK sellers, turn out to be closer than expected.

If you sell privately

Since October 2024, eBay UK has charged private sellers no final value fee, no per-order fee and no regulatory operating fee in most categories. Bidzzy charges private sellers nothing either. On fees alone there is nothing to choose between them.

Both platforms recover the money from the buyer instead. Bidzzy’s buyer protection fee is typically 3%–7.5% of the item price plus £0.25–£0.70, with the lower percentage on higher-value items and a ceiling of £16.99 per order. eBay applies its own buyer protection charge at checkout. The ceiling is the interesting part of Bidzzy’s version: on a £400 coat the buyer pays no more than £16.99.

If you sell as a business

Here the two really do diverge. A business seller on eBay UK pays, per eBay’s own rate card:

• A final value fee of 5% to 14.9%, depending on category. Clothing and accessories sit in the middle of that range.
• A per-order fee of £0.30 on orders up to £10 and £0.40 above, raised in February 2026.
• A regulatory operating fee of 0.35% on the total sale, postage and tax included.
• An international fee of 1.05% to 2.0% when the buyer is abroad.
• VAT at 20% on all of the above.

Bidzzy charges a business seller the same as a private one: nothing on the sale price.

On a £60 dress, an eBay business seller paying a 12% final value fee hands over £7.20, plus £0.40 per order, plus £0.21 regulatory fee, plus VAT on those, leaving roughly £50.90. The same dress on Bidzzy returns the full £60, and the buyer pays the protection fee on top.

How a buyer finds your item

eBay is a search engine with a checkout attached. People arrive knowing roughly what they want, type it in, and sort by price or by ending soonest. That rewards a precise title and punishes a vague one, and it means your competition is every other listing for the same thing. Promoted Listings exist because in a busy category organic placement is not enough on its own.

The scale behind that search box is the reason anyone puts up with it. eBay reported 136 million active buyers and $22.4 billion of gross merchandise volume in the second quarter of 2026, with 44% of revenue coming from outside the United States. The UK is one of its strongest markets by seller count.

Bidzzy works differently. Browse defaults to newest first, its recommended feed deliberately shows items that haven’t had many views yet, and buyers scroll categories, look at photographs and make offers. A well-shot listing gets seen in a way the same listing often wouldn’t on eBay, which is the case for putting stock there.

The practical consequence is that your effort moves. On eBay it goes into titles, item specifics and deciding whether to pay for placement. On Bidzzy it goes into the first photograph.

Listing an item on each

eBay gives you more ways to sell and asks more of you in return. Auctions, fixed price and best offer all exist, listings run for a set duration or Good ‘Til Cancelled, and item specifics have to be filled in properly or the listing struggles in search. Promoted Listings let you pay for placement, which in a crowded category is often the difference between selling and not.

Bidzzy is simpler. Fixed price with offers, no auction format, and a smaller catalogue means less pressure to pay for visibility, though optional paid bumps into labelled Featured slots exist. For a seller whose main complaint about eBay is the amount of admin per item, that simplicity is the real selling point alongside the fee saving.

Titles work differently too. On eBay you are writing for a search box used by millions of people, so brand, size, colour and condition all belong in the title. On a smaller platform buyers browse more than they search, so the first photograph carries more weight than the keywords.

Delivery and buyer protection

Bidzzy issues prepaid tracked labels with Evri, Royal Mail and InPost, with printer-free QR drop-off on Royal Mail and InPost. You do not price postage or queue at the counter with your own label.

eBay leaves the choice to you. You can buy a label through eBay, use Royal Mail or Evri yourself, or offer collection. More control, more decisions, and more chances to price postage wrong on a heavy item.

On protection, both hold the buyer’s money until delivery is confirmed and both run a dispute process. eBay has published seller protection rules covering items not received and items not as described. Bidzzy reviews every dispute by hand, within a 72-hour window after delivery. On either, ship tracked and keep proof of postage.

Which platform for which item

Running both with FLUF Connect

These two are not an either-or decision, which is the point of crosslisting. The same coat can sit on both until one of them sells it.

When it sells on eBay: FLUF records the sale and ends the Bidzzy listing.

When it sells on Bidzzy: FLUF records the sale and ends the eBay listing.

eBay is also one of the channels where FLUF can relist stock that has gone stale and handle incoming offers on your behalf. Those run on the plans above Starter. On Bidzzy, use its own auto-renew to keep listings fresh.

What FLUF Connect costs

7 days for £1, then from £9/month. The Starter plan has no listing limit and covers crosslisting, inventory sync, order sync and bulk operations across both platforms.

Sources

• Bidzzy: why sell with us
• Bidzzy: terms and buyer protection fee
• Bidzzy: help and FAQ
• eBay UK: private seller fees
• eBay UK: business seller fees
• eBay UK: January 2026 rate card change
• eBay UK: how payouts work
• eBay Inc: Q2 2026 investor fast facts

Sources checked September 2026; Bidzzy details re-checked 23 October 2026.

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