Obscure fees.
When did eBay start charging "Road improvement and food delivery fees"? I just sold some electronic components and the buyer was charged $0.50. Too small to contest, but add it up over hundreds of millions of sales and it becomes a problem. Does eBay need to repave their parking lot due to damage done by the food trucks? Why should there be a separate charge for that.
17 comments
janet9988
·5 months agoIt is not YOUR fee. No need to even contest it.
Buyers should know the taxes they are charged from their own state.
dustythings4u
OP5 months agoI know that. See my first response
janet9988
·5 months agoIt is not an obscure fee to the BUYER who pays the tax.
albertabrightalberta
·5 months ago@dustythings4u
You aren't paying that fee. It's being charged to the buyer so all it costs you is 6.5 cents of your FVF.
dustythings4u
OP5 months agoI understand that the buyer is being charged the "fee". BUT why is he being charged for road construction and food delivery"? Ebay doesn't pave roads nor deliver food (see doordash)
jonathanbrightlight
·5 months agoeBay isn’t charging it. It’s a state tax. eBay is required by law to collect it and remit it to the state.
soh.maryl
·5 months agoeBay isn't the one charging the fee. The fee is being charged by the buyer's state. There are several states doing this and perhaps more on the horizon.
stephenmorgan
·5 months agoBecause they can, no other reason. When the law was signed enough people did not try to stop it.
grann-4629
·5 months agoMaybe it's just the words they chose to describe the tax ... road construction and food delivery that has got you bugged.
They could have simply called it graft then everybody would understand why it exists and where it goes.
jameshen1
·5 months agoUnfortunately for me, Colorado also does this.
monica-sells
·5 months agoThere are other states implementing it also...and probably more to come
ebay has no choice......
valueaddedresource
·5 months agoThe state of Minnesota, where your buyer is located, has required this fee to be collected and remitted since July 1, 2024.
https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/retail-delivery-fee
dustythings4u
OP5 months agoMinnesota...That explains it. Corrupt to the core.
soh.maryl
·5 months agoMy understanding is that there are several states enacting this fee/charge, not just Minnesota.
Are all of them "corrupt to the core"?
grann-4629
·5 months agoAre all of them "corrupt to the core"?
Yes.
monroe67
·5 months ago"Minnesota...That explains it. Corrupt to the core."
Colorado charges something like 27 or 28 cents on every purchase that is delivered into the state of Colorado. Whether the buyer buys that purchase on eBay, Poshmark, Amazon, QVC, catalogs, etc., etc.
In contrast, Minnesota's delivery fee does not apply to every purchase. It is 50 cents "applied to each sale that is greater than or equal to $100."
In one way of looking at this, then, you yourself are responsible for making your buyer pay 50 cents to the state where his purchase was delivered. If you had listed your item for only, say, $90.00, the sale might not have been $100 or more, and the buyer would not have had to pay that extra 50 cents.
kensgiftshop
·5 months agoIt's the buyers state that is charging those fee's.