Yes eBay do charge but offers coverage to many potential buyers, to avoid some fees ask for cash on collection. Facebook marketplace doesn't charge fees.

Tony

I put a lot of advice and context around the practical considerations of selling a lathe like the Harrison second hand in this thread which may be of use to you.

In a nutshell, the price you get will be shaped as much (if not more) by how easy or hard it is for the buyer to collect/have collected (both moving the machine and where you are in the country), as it is by the machine itself.

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IMO listing it on eBay as a buy it now and slowly reducing the price is the best method to recover the value in full…

If you're located centrally in the country and would be willing to get a quote from a suitable transport firm for delivery within a certain radius so you can offer a price delivered then you can charge a price premium on the machine as well.

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Two cautionary notes on eBay selling for large items:

1. if you don't want the buyer to pay by PayPal ensure you remove it as an option on the listing when you're setting it up, and
2. If you do choose to accept PayPal ensure you tell the buyer to bring a collection code with them, and refuse to let them start loading until they give you/show you the collection code, this will prevent them trying to reverse the charges later (a common scam).

Paying with Paypal on ebay hasn't stopped neither has the option to use it if you are selling, It's just that Paypal and Fleabay became totally seperate businesses (allegedly). So you still use Paypal but it's treated like any other credit/debit card transaction.

On eBay it's the seller who pays the fees not the buyer, ebay now processes the transaction, PayPal is now purely a payment option for the buyer along with debit cards etc, the seller pays no fees to PayPal.

Sellers can choose to disable PayPal or credit/debit card payment options for a listing as they choose…. But they cannot insist on "cash on collection" only and must offer at least one form of "approved electronic payment".

Interestingly though, direct bank transfer is acceptable as an electronic payment method payment for certain categories of listing only… Including Vehicles and (of particular interest to us) "Business Office and Industrial", in recognition that people sell some really very expensive things on there and theres a decent amount of B2B selling activity where card payment isn't a practical option.

(A business I worked with on a project once bought a second-hand warehouse on eBay and got a subby steel erector to collect and catalogue it, then bring it back and put it up on a concrete pad, try putting that through on your expenses!)