If buyer pays for postage why do I gotta pay out-of-pocket?

Question

I would’ve gotten $30 but I had to pay for another postage label. third time this has happened. Anyone else have this problem?

rfmtm · Accepted Answer

Buyer pays what ever shipping amount you put in the listing. You then pay the actual postage from those funds whether more or less.

monroe67 · Answer

Here's another way of saying what my Fellow Mentor, rfmtm, stated:

In the lower section of eBay's order details, the section entitled "What you earned"

do you see that you purchased a "postage label" for $5.80 ?

In the upper section, the section entitled "What your buyer paid", you will also see that your buyer paid $5.80 for postage.

It's the same Five Dollars and Eighty Cents ($5.80).

The $5.80 you spent when you bought the postage label . . . . .
is the very same $5.80 that your seller essentially advanced to you . . . . . .

for the sole purpose of buying the postage and printing the label.

A few quiet moments to think this through, try to follow the money, in your head,
. . . . . . and it will all make perfect sense.