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If the buyer paid postage, why didn't I get that money?
Sold for $40, buyer paid $9.50 postage, selling fee was $7.50, I'm only getting $28? Where is the $9.50?
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rfmtm
Mentor1 year agoDid you buy a shipping label with it?
lrlaskoske
OP1 year agoYes, and the customer paid me $49.50. $49.50 minus $9.50 is $40, minus the $7.50 selling fee is $32.50, not $28. Where is the other $4?
rfmtm
Mentor1 year agoGO here and click on VIEW at the right for breakdown:
https://www.ebay.com/mes/transactionlist?sh=true
monroe67
Mentor1 year ago"Yes, and the customer paid me $49.50. $49.50 minus $9.50 is $40, minus the $7.50 selling fee is $32.50, not $28. Where is the other $4?"
Without knowing everything about the transaction -- could it be sales tax?
eBay is required to calculate sales taxes based on buyers' zip codes; eBay collects those sales taxes and sends them to the proper state's taxing authority. Sellers do not receive those sales taxes
Could your buyer possibly have been in Los Angeles, where sales tax is at least 10%?
$4.00 is precisely the 10% sales tax that a LA buyer would pay on a $40.00 item.
lrlaskoske
OP1 year agoit did not note sales tax.
monroe67
Mentor1 year agoDid you follow the link provided by "rfmtm" in Message 4 above?
You could post a screen shot of the info that you get from that link.
When you said "it did not note sales tax," I thought, oh, maybe it was eBay's 1.65% International Fee --
for an item sent to a freight forwarding company in Delaware or Oregon where there is no sales tax --
but on a $49.50 total order, that fee would be less than $1.00, so it's not an International Fee.
It would be most helpful to see what eBay is reporting to you rather than taking even educated guesses.
lrlaskoske
OP1 year agoWith the $9, yes, but I'm still $4 short. Not selling on ebay anymore if they'll be ripping me off like this every time.