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eBay fees are getting too expensive!!!

maddog1273
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I just sold a few items and noticed eBay took 12% of my total....Plus PayPal (Who is owned by eBay) took another 3%......
This is ridiculous!!!!
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

Is there any way to get these fees lowered for future listings. Like starting a store OR am I doing something wrong????

Any suggestions would be appreciated.....
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@ultimatetech14 wrote:
I didn't ask for your opinion. But come on eBay fees are a little expensive. There is just too much competition with little profit. Why sell something when you only make less than 50% of profit because the other 50%+ goes to expenses

I beg to differ.  Your first post in this thread included this sentence:

"Who here reading this agrees with me?"

That certainly looks like you're asking for opinions!

 

Yes, I'd like for ebay fees to be lower, but I can't imagine building my own website to sell items around my home & figuring out how to get interested buyers in finding my web pages via search engines. 

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@ultimatetech14 wrote:

Here's two great examples:

 

Selling on eBay: $5.00 item 

                          -$0.25 (cost of item)

                          -$2.50 shipping

                          -$1.50 fees 

                           Profit: $0.75

 

Selling on your   $10.00 item (same item but can sell double the price than on eBay)

own website:     -$0.25 (cost of item)

                          -$2.50 shipping

                           NO FEES

                           Profit: $7.25 

                                              


If those numbers mean that you are using "Free" Shipping ... why?

If you are charging actual cost shipping ... the actual breakdown looks like this:

 

Sale Price

$ 5.00

Shipping

$ 2.50

Total Paid by Customer

$ 7.50

 

 

Shipping

$ 2.50

COGS

$ 0.25

eBay FVF (10%)

$ 0.75

PP Fee (2.9% +0.30)

$ 0.52

Total Expenses

$ 4.02

 

 

Profit

$ 3.48

Profit Margin

54%

 

 

Questions:

Why would you think that you could charge double on your own website?

How much would hosting your own site cost per month?

How much would advertising your own site cost per month?

 

penguins_dont_fly is a Volunteer Community Mentor
Buying and Selling since 2013

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Oh -- forgot one question:

 

How much would you be paying a payment processor per transaction, if you weren't using PayPal?

 

penguins_dont_fly is a Volunteer Community Mentor
Buying and Selling since 2013

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I wondered about  that double price, too, although I suspect ultimatetech is thinking ebay shoppers are notoriously cheap.

Which they are, and I'm including myself. Smiley Happy

 

Anyway, I took their entire post as a rant, since they still have an active listing.

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You get 50% of YOUR profits. Why should eBay get the other 50% when your doing all the work. This should be a capitalism country not a socialism communism country. It should be 80% for you and 20% for eBay
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Yes people who know real business should know that every single penny counts and adds up
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Yes, it does.

Which is why the need to research your product and associated costs before jumping in the shark tank is so important.

BTW ... eBay is NOT taking 50% of your profits.
They take 10% of gross
PayPal takes 2.9% + 0.30 of Gross

54% is your Margin (and I simplified that)
on your example above, you have an ROI (again, simplified) of over 1000%

If you are so sure that going it on your own is cheaper ... I suggest a little more reaserch for you.

Here's a good read:
http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/how-much-does-ecommerce-website-cost/

And, yes Kansas, know it's a rant ...but so many posters come here surprised at their fees ... eBay gets a small part of that blame for their "1-2-3" stuff, but there is no excuse for not doing your own research.

If you are just out to clean your closets, then maybe it is more on eBay. But when you are actually sourcing product for resale, then we are in the realm of Business ...

penguins_dont_fly is a Volunteer Community Mentor
Buying and Selling since 2013

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Patience is the ability to read the fine print where all the EBAY FEES are.

 

 

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 I just found out  I owed a lot money on Ebay

 

 I got confuse mmm

 

I thinking  do not know  PayPal charge too ????

 

My GOD ..i guess i have to stop listing

 

 

MY GOD , mmmm

 

 

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@cheek2222jet wrote:

Patience is the ability to read the fine print where all the EBAY FEES are.

 

 


No fine print.

 

Every time you post a listing, at the Top of the Page after "Continue" there is a "Review Your Listing" Page 

 

Before you hit "List My Item" ... you get this:

 

feeslisting.png

The blue "final value fee" link  leads you here:

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

 

penguins_dont_fly is a Volunteer Community Mentor
Buying and Selling since 2013

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Ridiculous!
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If You bought Chinese things to sell and have to compete with them You will definitely have to keep Your postage down. that will be a big expense. 

 

The other thing to be competitive is to advertise in Your listings that You are an American seller. I think that will help You. 

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I sold 3 smartphones  total $167.57  including shipping,,,,,,,,,,,,ebay charging me  $25.00  I am getting %15 charge from  ebay

total profit is 0  I won,t  work for ebay  anymore. this is too much

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Use zauctions.co.uk

 

There are no fees at all at the moment.

 

Just bare in mind that eBay offer lots of back up and zauctions.co.uk only advertisies for you, like putting an advert in a shop window.

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Just got charge 17% for sales fees. I will not use eBay any longer for selling items. Furthermore, they hold funds from sales far to long before releasing them so you can transfer the money from your PayPal account to your bank account.

Does anyone know of an alternative service?

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