Profits

[bgbt3nk]

Financials on an eBay Sale:

Sold 2 RAM memory sticks for $14.99

I received $5.72 out of the $14.99, 35% of the selling price!

I don’t see how eBay sellers make a profit.

Breakdown:

Payment                              $14.99          100%

Shipping                              $   6.88            46%

                                                $   8.11            54%

eBay Fee                              $   2.39            16%

Payout                                  $   5.72            35%

[laststopgeneralstore]

Really easy actually, been making great profit for several years now. Looks like fee's weren't the issue for you but the fact that YOU did not charge shipping at all or didn't charge enough shipping to cover the shipping cost. That is not eBay's fault, that is YOUR fault. Next time make sure to crunch all the numbers before you sell something to make sure it's actually worth your time to go thru the process of listing it.

[murph1727]

I have to agree with @laststopgeneralstore . You listed this with free shipping so yes-you sold this item for $8.11 with a payout of $5.72.

[dhbookds]

Agree with @laststopgeneralstore.    Offering free shipping is the killer.

[luckythewinner]

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@bgbt3nk wrote:

Financials on an eBay Sale:

Sold 2 RAM memory sticks for $14.99

I received $5.72 out of the $14.99, 35% of the selling price!

I don’t see how eBay sellers make a profit.

Breakdown:

Payment                              $14.99          100%

Shipping                              $   6.88            46%

                                                $   8.11            54%

eBay Fee                              $   2.39            16%

Payout                                  $   5.72            35%

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Since you chose to offer free shipping rather than having the buyer pay for shipping, you really sold that item for $8.11, not $14.99. So you really kept 70+% of the selling price, not $35%. 

Smart eBay sellers make a profit by checking the fees and shipping cost before they list an item and choose a price, not afterward.

[orangehound]

In addition to what everyone else wrote,

1. Why in the world are you paying $6.88 to ship a light-weight product?  I'm guessing, at most, these should ship at 8 ounces and your shipping cost with eBay labels (or pirateship) would be no more than $4.68.
2. Some things are just not worth the time and energy to sell on eBay.  The item you just sold looks to have a value for what you got for it.  Is it worth your time and energy to sell these for $7 of income?  I typically only sell items for under $20 if (a) I can sell in quantity, or (b) I don't want the product to go to a landfill and I'm donating my time for my own personal ethical charity.

[rapidreplay]

YOU LEFT OUT YOUR LABOR COST. by the way McDonalds is hiring @ 20 bucks a hour,

[css2001]

I don’t see how eBay sellers make a profit. 

I sell ram memory on occasion when I do an upgrade. I always offer free shipping, but I add that cost to the asking price.
First, at $14.99, that means you sold each stick for $7.50 without accounting for free shipping. That's too low. And the total package weight would be 4 ounces or less, so at the most your shipping cost should have been $4.36. You should always calculate the fees and shipping cost prior to listing an item. If you had done that your net profit would have been $10 or more.

[chapeau-noir]

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@bgbt3nk wrote:

Financials on an eBay Sale:

Sold 2 RAM memory sticks for $14.99

I received $5.72 out of the $14.99, 35% of the selling price!

I don’t see how eBay sellers make a profit.

Breakdown:

Payment                              $14.99          100%

Shipping                              $   6.88            46%

                                                $   8.11            54%

eBay Fee                              $   2.39            16%

Payout                                  $   5.72            35%

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Free shipping isn't "free", you still have to pay for it. 😂

[redlinear]

@bgbt3nk 
    The electricity seems to be off in here. 
WHO pays the shipping makes no difference in the total you received.
You got $14.99 and shipped for free.
You could have sold for $2 and charged $12.99 for shipping.  (your NET remains the same either way)

The best I can tell. 
You could not have sold those for more than $14.99 due to competition. 

Now then, you want to know how to make a profit selling two sticks for $5.72?   Pay less than $5.72 for the two sticks.
How to make a living on eBay doing that?  Do it a thousand times a day.