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    Why does ebay take 13.25 % from sales tax collected when they already get % from states
                     

    and 13.25 from your shipping

    obob501
    obob501
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    jerseyboymusic

    jerseyboymusic

    ·2 years ago
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    Can't we just have a week... JUST ONE WEEK... where somebody DOESN'T ask this?!?!? Or just a DAY?

                                           
    evelyb30

    evelyb30

    ·2 years ago
    4744View listings
    @jerseyboymusic wrote:

    Can't we just have a week... JUST ONE WEEK... where somebody DOESN'T ask this?!?!? Or just a DAY?

    NO.  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

    jerseyboymusic

    ·2 years ago
    256View listings

    🤣

    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

    evelyb30

    ·2 years ago
    4744View listings

    Mourning doves? Close but no birdie.  

                                           
    soh.maryl

    soh.maryl

    ·2 years ago
    110View listings

    So may I presume that you're a Roger Miller fan?  

                                           
    soh.maryl

    soh.maryl

    ·2 years ago
    110View listings

    Doggone it -- you copied my Christmas wish list! And I didn't get those things last year either.  

                                           
    evelyb30

    evelyb30

    ·2 years ago
    4744View listings
    @soh.maryl wrote:

    Doggone it -- you copied my Christmas wish list! And I didn't get those things last year either.  

    I still want to pet a snow leopard.  Didn't get to last year, and this year isn't looking good either. 

                                           
    soh.maryl

    soh.maryl

    ·2 years ago
    110View listings

    Me too.  Let me know if the opportunity does come up, will you? Maybe we could get a two for one deal. 

                                           
    ckimodog

    ckimodog

    ·2 years ago
    9204View listings

    @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!" ðŸ˜†

                                           
    jerseyboymusic

    jerseyboymusic

    ·2 years ago
    256View listings

    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

                                           
    ckimodog

    ckimodog

    ·2 years ago
    9204View listings

    @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

    reallynicestamps

    ·2 years ago
    2473View listings

    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.

                                           
    stainlessenginecovers

    stainlessenginecovers

    ·2 years ago
    5484View listings

    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. 

     

                                           
    buyselljack2016

    buyselljack2016

    ·2 years ago
    107View listings

    not a requirement

                                           
    stainlessenginecovers

    stainlessenginecovers

    ·2 years ago
    5484View listings
    @buyselljack2016 wrote:

    not a requirement

    @buyselljack2016 

     

    ?? What's not a requirement? 

                                           
    marysmania

    marysmania

    ·2 years ago
    343View listings

    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.

                                           
    evelyb30

    evelyb30

    ·2 years ago
    4744View listings

    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.

    It will be anyway. 

                                           
    monroe67

    monroe67

    ·2 years ago
    199View listings

    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.  

                                           
    soh.maryl

    soh.maryl

    ·2 years ago
    110View listings

    Can 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

    lakefor94

    ·2 years ago
    113View listings

    If I had a dollar......

                                           
    ckimodog

    ckimodog

    ·2 years ago
    9204View listings

    @lakefor94 

    Ditto...we'd all be wealthier. lol.  

                                           
    lakefor94

    lakefor94

    ·2 years ago
    113View listings
    @ckimodog wrote:

    @lakefor94 

    Ditto...we'd all be wealthier. lol.  

    Living on our own islands....

                                           
    theteamsetguy

    theteamsetguy

    ·2 years ago
    19931View listings

    @lakefor94 ,

     

    For what? Every blue moon?

                                           
    eburtonlab

    eburtonlab

    ·2 years ago
    5541View listings

    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.

                                           
    dryophelia

    dryophelia

    ·2 years ago
    already ready already9View listings

    @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

    mtgraves7984

    ·2 years ago
    2740View listings

    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.

                                           
    toomuchstuffagain35

    toomuchstuffagain35

    ·2 years ago
    172View listings
    @mtgraves7984 wrote:

    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.

    Sure they do. Most states kick back a % for them collecting & remitting.

                                           
    richard1rst

    richard1rst

    ·2 years ago
    53683View listings
    @mtgraves7984 wrote:

    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.

                                           
    richard1rst

    richard1rst

    ·2 years ago
    53683View listings

    And, yes, I know that all of the above is irrelevant. I just enjoy teasing the children.

                                           
    siamjane8

    siamjane8

    ·2 years ago
    7838View listings

    @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

    monica-sells

    ·2 years ago
    94View listings

    that'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

    toomuchstuffagain35

    ·2 years ago
    172View listings

    Because they can? Don't fret about it, if they didn't get it that way they'd get it some other way.

                                           
                                                                                     
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