Well... I'm pushing 60 and I CAN have candy for dinner if I want (not that it's good for me), we have had morning dove nests by our back door (does that count?) and I don't want to ride to the moon (terra firma, baby)
But I also know you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, either
AND is it too much to hope that the OP on any of these threads comes back and says "Oh, yeah... silly me... I understand now! I didn't see that on the Terms I agreed to before I listed anything!"?
Or the OP coming back at all? I mean @obob501 's account has been on here since 2000, as well... so I'm really surprised at the posts here on the boards they make
Agree 100%. They're getting to be overwhelming and unnecessary. This forum is also over saturated with the "I need someone to sell for me" posts as well. It's like 2 and three a day and I've been on this forum since 08.
These types of requests are getting out of hand. This is not the classified ads or the yellow pages. People are spamming this forum with these requests which have nothing to do with buying or selling on eBay. They're getting ridiculous. Not to mention a possible scam. I think these are just childish spammers who have nothing better to do. Those of us who volunteer our time here need to focus on those who really need our help. Many of us are seeing thru these posts and sorry, they're **bleep**. JMO
While some states may pay companies for processing and remitting sales taxes promptly, others do not.
We paid Ontario Canada sales taxes from 1978 when we opened our shop until we closed it in 2014. We were allowed to deduct a small amount of the tax for getting the paperwork in on time. Around the turn of the millennium ON stopped paying merchants for their labour.
BTW, during all that time we took credit cards through Moneris, who charged us fees for processing the card payments.
The first credit cards were the Diners Club in 1950, and they charged a fee on the ENTIRE payment too, including sales taxes.
Because calculating and preparing up to 3600 different counties in the US, the 'various' tax percentages, then remitting the $ for those taxes, 4 times a year (14,000+ total) COSTS MONEY and ebay had to hire a company to do it.
Besides, 8% of $100 is $8, and 13% of that is $1.04, so it is REALLY costing about 1% of the sale price.
.01c on the $1 isn't too much for them having to do that job.
Thank you. It is petty, but to charge the 13% on the sales tax seemed wrong. I as the seller end up helping to pay the sales tax for the sale, BUT I do not have to do any of the paper work. Okay . . . that seems a bit fair.
That said, taking a percentage of sales tax was one of the many pain points that made me quit selling. I was here for the fee avoidance and always hated sellers who charged $1 for the item and $99 shipping to avoid paying fees for a $95 item with $5 shipping like honorable sellers. Buyers didn't care, obviously.
But... if you don't read something as basic as the fee schedule before selling, on your own head be it.
Why does ebay take 13.25 % from sales tax collected when they already get % from states
and 13.25 from your shipping
Congratulations! You are the first person in the New Year, 2024, to ask this question!
There will be many, many more!
I have looked into the Marketplace Facilitator laws in my state, California. I believe that a very strict reading of one of the statutes may actually require eBay, and other Marketplace Facilitators, to retain some sort of compensation for collecting and remitting California state sales taxes to Sacramento. Of course, this applies only to buyers whose purchases are delivered to addresses within California.
IF any state allows Marketplace Facilitators (including eBay) to keep a percentage of those collected sales taxes, it is a very, very small percentage.
About the 13.25 (%, I assume) from your shipping, that's easy: It's to stop sellers from charging $10.00 for an item and $340.00 for shipping. That is called Fee Avoidance and it was rampant in the early days of eBay, when the Final Value Fee was not charged on shipping costs. Too many unethical sellers manipulated their listings with obviously incorrect shipping costs and eBay was losing money.
Each seller and potential seller can choose to accept eBay's fee schedule or not.
eBay takes its fee percentage from the total amount the buyer pays.
eBay could calculate fees differently if it chose to do so, but then the percentage would be different so that eBay could realize the same total revenue.
eBay owes its user base zero explanation what they do with their fortune. Them making money on the money they get from its user base is none of my business. No business, as successful as eBay, Walmart, Amazon, Loblaws (Canada grocery conglomerate), etc., got to where they are by pussy footing around and making sure nobody got their feelings hurt.
Why does ebay take 13.25 % from sales tax collected when they already get % from states
@obob501
You've got it backwards. eBay collects and remits the buyers' tax to their states. They don't 'get' a % of sales tax.
I can't speak for all states but here in Nevada when I file my quarterly sales tax reports (sales I make other than here on eBay) at the bottom I can deduct 1/4 of 1% as "payment" for my time. Now admittedly on my (comparatively speaking) nickle and dime return it doesn't amount to even a cup of coffee. But once you start getting into the millions that theoretically eBay forwards that 1/4 of 1%, in the words of Tip O'Neill, starts to become real money.
@mtgraves7984You've got it backwards. eBay collects and remits the buyers' tax to their states. They don't 'get' a % of sales tax.
Actually they do get a percentage in most states for collecting the tax.If Pa has a 6% sales tax- they accept 4.5-5% from ebay if paid monthly. That results in ebay generating 1-1.5% revenue off of the millions upon millions they collect on behalf of the states. You can look it up online- there are published lists of the states and what "discount" they offer to tax collectors.
I suggest you follow your own advice and "look it up online"
From the PA Legislation regarding sales tax remittance:
"The legislation established a $300 annual discount threshold for timely filing commonly referred to as a discount cap. So regardless of how often you file the discount is capped the same."
yup...300 whole dollars...not millions
FYI....Most states "cap" the discount....other states treat facilitators different than regular B & M stores or online ventures.....
jerseyboymusic
·2 years agoCan't we just have a week... JUST ONE WEEK... where somebody DOESN'T ask this?!?!? Or just a DAY?
evelyb30
·2 years agoNO. You can't have candy for dinner, a pet passenger pigeon, or a ride to the Moon on the next space mission. Might as well ask for those too.
jerseyboymusic
·2 years ago🤣
Well... I'm pushing 60 and I CAN have candy for dinner if I want (not that it's good for me), we have had morning dove nests by our back door (does that count?) and I don't want to ride to the moon (terra firma, baby)
But I also know you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, either
evelyb30
·2 years agoMourning doves? Close but no birdie.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoSo may I presume that you're a Roger Miller fan?
soh.maryl
·2 years agoDoggone it -- you copied my Christmas wish list! And I didn't get those things last year either.
evelyb30
·2 years agoI still want to pet a snow leopard. Didn't get to last year, and this year isn't looking good either.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoMe too. Let me know if the opportunity does come up, will you? Maybe we could get a two for one deal.
ckimodog
·2 years ago@jerseyboymusic
Or the "Why don't I have any sales?" Slow sales, eBay is stealing from me and of course last but not least, "eBay sucks!" 😆
jerseyboymusic
·2 years agoAND is it too much to hope that the OP on any of these threads comes back and says "Oh, yeah... silly me... I understand now! I didn't see that on the Terms I agreed to before I listed anything!"?
Or the OP coming back at all? I mean @obob501 's account has been on here since 2000, as well... so I'm really surprised at the posts here on the boards they make
ckimodog
·2 years ago@jerseyboymusic
Agree 100%. They're getting to be overwhelming and unnecessary. This forum is also over saturated with the "I need someone to sell for me" posts as well. It's like 2 and three a day and I've been on this forum since 08.
These types of requests are getting out of hand. This is not the classified ads or the yellow pages. People are spamming this forum with these requests which have nothing to do with buying or selling on eBay. They're getting ridiculous. Not to mention a possible scam. I think these are just childish spammers who have nothing better to do. Those of us who volunteer our time here need to focus on those who really need our help. Many of us are seeing thru these posts and sorry, they're **bleep**. JMO
Happy New Year
reallynicestamps
·2 years agoWhile some states may pay companies for processing and remitting sales taxes promptly, others do not.
We paid Ontario Canada sales taxes from 1978 when we opened our shop until we closed it in 2014. We were allowed to deduct a small amount of the tax for getting the paperwork in on time. Around the turn of the millennium ON stopped paying merchants for their labour.
BTW, during all that time we took credit cards through Moneris, who charged us fees for processing the card payments.
The first credit cards were the Diners Club in 1950, and they charged a fee on the ENTIRE payment too, including sales taxes.
stainlessenginecovers
·2 years agoBecause calculating and preparing up to 3600 different counties in the US, the 'various' tax percentages, then remitting the $ for those taxes, 4 times a year (14,000+ total) COSTS MONEY and ebay had to hire a company to do it.
Besides, 8% of $100 is $8, and 13% of that is $1.04, so it is REALLY costing about 1% of the sale price.
.01c on the $1 isn't too much for them having to do that job.
buyselljack2016
·2 years agonot a requirement
stainlessenginecovers
·2 years ago@buyselljack2016
?? What's not a requirement?
marysmania
·2 years agoThank you. It is petty, but to charge the 13% on the sales tax seemed wrong. I as the seller end up helping to pay the sales tax for the sale, BUT I do not have to do any of the paper work. Okay . . . that seems a bit fair.
evelyb30
·2 years agoThat said, taking a percentage of sales tax was one of the many pain points that made me quit selling. I was here for the fee avoidance and always hated sellers who charged $1 for the item and $99 shipping to avoid paying fees for a $95 item with $5 shipping like honorable sellers. Buyers didn't care, obviously.
But... if you don't read something as basic as the fee schedule before selling, on your own head be it.
It will be anyway.
monroe67
·2 years agoWhy does ebay take 13.25 % from sales tax collected when they already get % from states
and 13.25 from your shipping
Congratulations! You are the first person in the New Year, 2024, to ask this question!
There will be many, many more!
I have looked into the Marketplace Facilitator laws in my state, California. I believe that a very strict reading of one of the statutes may actually require eBay, and other Marketplace Facilitators, to retain some sort of compensation for collecting and remitting California state sales taxes to Sacramento. Of course, this applies only to buyers whose purchases are delivered to addresses within California.
IF any state allows Marketplace Facilitators (including eBay) to keep a percentage of those collected sales taxes, it is a very, very small percentage.
About the 13.25 (%, I assume) from your shipping, that's easy:
It's to stop sellers from charging $10.00 for an item and $340.00 for shipping.
That is called Fee Avoidance and it was rampant in the early days of eBay, when the Final Value Fee was not charged on shipping costs. Too many unethical sellers manipulated their listings with obviously incorrect shipping costs and eBay was losing money.
Each seller and potential seller can choose to accept eBay's fee schedule or not.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoCan you explain further that ". . .when they already get % from states"?
And, have to ask, so you have been here since April, 2000, and you have just noticed the fee schedule?
lakefor94
·2 years agoIf I had a dollar......
ckimodog
·2 years ago@lakefor94
Ditto...we'd all be wealthier. lol.
lakefor94
·2 years agoLiving on our own islands....
theteamsetguy
·2 years ago@lakefor94 ,
For what? Every blue moon?
eburtonlab
·2 years agoeBay takes its fee percentage from the total amount the buyer pays.
eBay could calculate fees differently if it chose to do so, but then the percentage would be different so that eBay could realize the same total revenue.
dryophelia
·2 years ago@obob501
Why does it matter?
The fees are laid out clearly. Sellers pay XX%.
eBay owes its user base zero explanation what they do with their fortune. Them making money on the money they get from its user base is none of my business.
No business, as successful as eBay, Walmart, Amazon, Loblaws (Canada grocery conglomerate), etc., got to where they are by pussy footing around and making sure nobody got their feelings hurt.
mtgraves7984
·2 years agoWhy does ebay take 13.25 % from sales tax collected when they already get % from states
@obob501
You've got it backwards. eBay collects and remits the buyers' tax to their states. They don't 'get' a % of sales tax.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoSure they do. Most states kick back a % for them collecting & remitting.
richard1rst
·2 years agoI can't speak for all states but here in Nevada when I file my quarterly sales tax reports (sales I make other than here on eBay) at the bottom I can deduct 1/4 of 1% as "payment" for my time. Now admittedly on my (comparatively speaking) nickle and dime return it doesn't amount to even a cup of coffee. But once you start getting into the millions that theoretically eBay forwards that 1/4 of 1%, in the words of Tip O'Neill, starts to become real money.
richard1rst
·2 years agoAnd, yes, I know that all of the above is irrelevant. I just enjoy teasing the children.
siamjane8
·2 years ago@mtgraves7984 You've got it backwards. eBay collects and remits the buyers' tax to their states. They don't 'get' a % of sales tax.
Actually they do get a percentage in most states for collecting the tax.If Pa has a 6% sales tax- they accept 4.5-5% from ebay if paid monthly. That results in ebay generating 1-1.5% revenue off of the millions upon millions they collect on behalf of the states. You can look it up online- there are published lists of the states and what "discount" they offer to tax collectors.
monica-sells
·2 years agothat's a bit misleading there matey.....
I suggest you follow your own advice and "look it up online"
From the PA Legislation regarding sales tax remittance:
"The legislation established a $300 annual
discount threshold for timely filing commonly
referred to as a discount cap. So regardless of
how often you file the discount is capped the
same."
yup...300 whole dollars...not millions
FYI....Most states "cap" the discount....other states treat facilitators different than regular B & M stores or online ventures.....
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoBecause they can? Don't fret about it, if they didn't get it that way they'd get it some other way.