05-16-2010 06:50 PM
01-02-2015 04:14 PM
@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.
01-02-2015 04:18 PM
@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?
01-02-2015 04:24 PM - edited 01-02-2015 04:25 PM
Oh -- forgot one question:
How much would you be paying a payment processor per transaction, if you weren't using PayPal?
01-02-2015 05:51 PM - edited 01-02-2015 05:52 PM
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.
Anyway, I took their entire post as a rant, since they still have an active listing.
01-02-2015 11:37 PM
01-02-2015 11:39 PM
01-03-2015 02:54 AM
01-04-2015 04:03 PM
Patience is the ability to read the fine print where all the EBAY FEES are.
01-30-2015 11:13 PM
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
01-31-2015 10:37 AM
@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:
The blue "final value fee" link leads you here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html
01-31-2015 05:04 PM
02-08-2015 09:35 PM
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.
03-03-2015 09:24 PM
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
03-04-2015 12:48 AM
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.
03-06-2015 09:30 AM
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?