Why does the seller have to pay for shipping, when the buyer already paid for shipping? Ex. Buyer paid $20 toward shipping. I chose a shipping that was $25. So it cost $45 for shipping. When I thought I was going to pay $3. Out of my sale.
Summary: In the discussion, rese-4077 expressed frustration about the cost of shipping an 8x10 box. Several participants explained that the buyer pays the amount listed for shipping to the seller, who is then responsible for purchasing the shipping label. 1786davycrockett and albertabrightalberta highlighted that it seems rese-4077 underestimated the shipping costs. It was clarified that the seller is responsible for managing these fees and ensuring accurate pricing to avoid losses. *icarus* raised a concern about final value fees, with a response clarifying how these fees are calculated on the total transaction amount.
It shouldn’t be costing $45 total to ship an 8x10 box.
9 comments
*icarus*
·2 days agoIf the buyer pays shipping the seller should receive the final value fee but they DO NOT. They receive the final value fee MINUS shipping hence the buyer and seller both osy the shipping fees. How is that right?
shire123
·2 days ago@*icarus* I think you lost me here. It looks like you are looking at the math incorrectly.
The buyer pays whatever shipping the seller has indicated.
The seller's gross sale is the item cost + shipping paid + sales tax. Ebay assesses the FVF on that total. The seller gets whatever is left and then proceeds to pay for any shipping.
Seller's net income is total of item cost + shipping paid + sales tax minus ebay's FVF minus actual shipping cost minus sales tax collected.
The buyer's only cost is the item price + shipping charged by the seller + sales tax.
monroe67
·2 days ago"If the buyer pays shipping the seller should receive the final value fee but they DO NOT. They receive the final value fee MINUS shipping hence the buyer and seller both
osy[pay] the shipping fees. How is that right?"This statement from your original post, above, is incorrect:
". . . the seller should keep the final value fee . . . ."
On eBay --
the words "final value fee" mean the money that eBay keeps from a completed sale.
I think you may be trying to say is that sellers should receive the proceeds of the sale.
They do. That's the way selling on eBay works.
Your original post continues: ". . . hence the buyer and seller both
osy[pay] the shipping fees. How is that right?"Here's how that is right in three sequential steps:
First: the buyer pays the shipping price to eBay, along with the price of the item and sales tax.
Second: eBay makes the shipping price available to the seller.
Third: the seller pays the shipping price through eBay. This step involves payment to eBay; eBay sends the money to Pitney Bowes, and then Pitney Bowes sends the money along to the US Postal Service (USPS).
It is ONLY in that third step that postage is purchased from the USPS.
The eBay seller purchases the postage from USPS, through eBay, and the money he spends is the money that the buyer advanced -- gave -- to him in Step 1.
I am sure that if you take a few quiet minutes to think this through, it will make sense.
Try to follow the money.
christworks
·1 week ago@rese-4077 Buyers NEVER pay for shipping. You can charge the buyers for shipping, but the buyer pays you, not the shipping carrier. You, the seller, are the one who buys the shipping label, either through eBay, an online 3rd party shipping site, or at the carrier's counter. Ideally you charge the buyer the correct amount, plus a little extra to cover supplies and the fees you pay on the seperate shipping charge. Regardless, whether you overcharge, undercharge, or nail it just right, you are responsible for buying the label. You keep any extra, but you lose if you undercharge.
The morale of the story is kids...make sure you know how much something will cost you to ship when you list, and adjust if needed should prices change.
albertabrightalberta
·1 week ago@rese-4077
"Buyer paid $20 toward shipping. I chose a shipping that was $25. So it cost $45 for shipping."
If I'm understanding your statement correctly, you purchased a $25 shipping label for which you charged the buyer $20. (You subsidized the shipping price by paying $5 toward the cost.)
It didn't cost $45. (It's not $20 + $25,)
Buyer paid you $20 as part of their payment. You used that $20 plus $5 of your own funds to buy the label.
1786davycrockett
·1 week ago@rese-4077
Your listing for those skis show that you only charged your buyer $18.07 for USPS Ground Advantage.
When you received your payout from eBay, that $18.07 was included, so that you could purchase the label.
But it sounds as if you underestimated the shipping charge, and you had to pay $25.00.
Why did you think it would only cost you $3.00 for shipping?
thriftyfiftyfifty
·1 week agoThink about it...Buyer pays YOUR shipping price attached to the Listing, but how do they get the Label on the Box? They rely on You of course, with their Shipping Money they Paid YOU. Not hard.
darn_yankee
·1 week agoIs your question related to Item #157746608400, Vtg Junior Snow Patrol Leather 36” Wooden Skis Blue Child Size Home Décor Japan?
What package dimensions did you enter when you created the listing? I'm thinking your actual shipping cost was driven by dimensional weight.
shire123
·1 week ago · EditedThe buyer paid YOU the shipping quote in your listing. Then YOU use those funds for whatever shipping method you choose.
The,seller always pays the shipping. It is up to the seller to charge the correct amount for shipping