Final value fee changes in most categories

[seller_update@ebay]

To support our ongoing investments in enhanced tools and expanded protections to help your business thrive, we're adjusting our selling fees. 

What you need to know

• We’ll be adjusting final value fees in most categories starting February 14, 2025. 

Enhancing your eBay experience

We're committed to providing a secure, market-leading selling experience that empowers your business and connects you with the world. Our significant investments in trust and safety measures shield you from unpaid items, fraud, abuse, and unforeseen disruptions, ensuring your business runs smoothly and empowering you to sell with confidence. With our extensive international buyer pool and dedication to cross-border trade, your products can reach an unmatched global audience. Plus, our dynamic marketing efforts are always in motion, attracting more buyers and fueling your business's growth.

Over the past year, we've been busy making eBay even better to support your business growth. Enhanced tools like the redesigned Seller Hub Marketing tab and automated offers help you connect with more buyers, while our AI background enhancement tool streamlines your workflow by enabling you to create studio-quality photos. Plus, our expanded Product Research tool helps you set pricing easier, and your selling experience is more secure than ever with expanded ShipCover insurance and our ongoing efforts to reduce unpaid items.

As we move into 2025, we're excited to continue building on these improvements to empower your business, expand your reach, and help you streamline how you work. 

2025 final value fee adjustments

To support these and future enhancements, we’ll be adjusting final value fees in most categories starting February 14, 2025, with increases ranging up to a maximum of 0.35%. We remain committed to offering competitive fees that reflect the value you receive from selling on eBay. 

For detailed information on the specific fee changes, please see the tables below.

Fee table

Next steps

You don’t need to do anything, but we recommend taking a moment to review the fee tables above to understand the changes affecting categories you sell in.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

Thanks ebay! And Happy Valentine's Day to you, too! A fee increase for Valentine's Day....gosh, you guys are just SO romantic! 

[lotsofbaseballcards]

Who else thinks ebay fee rules are confusing as our IRS.  They must have a bunch of morons running their sales and marketing departments.  Probably former government employees...lol 

[dhbookds]

Concerning this:

I read this as the categories on the left that have no updated fees noted on the right side.......have no increases?

[go-bad-chicken]

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@dhbookds wrote:

Concerning this:

I read this as the categories on the left that have no updated fees noted on the right side.......have no increases?

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You are correct.

[vintagecraze50]

My category went up another approx 1.5 percent. At least that’s what I am calculating. It was 13 something percent and now it’s 15 percent.

[valueaddedresource]

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@dhbookds wrote:

Concerning this:

I read this as the categories on the left that have no updated fees noted on the right side.......have no increases?

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@dhbookds that is not correct - what you're seeing is that the text for the categories just simply takes up more room in the box than the text for the fees.

All of the categories listed in that box on the left have the fees shown in that same box on the right, if that makes sense.

Antiques, Art (except Art NFTs), Baby, Crafts, Dolls & Bears, Entertainment Memorabilia, Health & Beauty, Home & Garden, Pet Supplies, Pottery & Glass, Specialty Services, and Sporting Goods are all going from 12.35% to 12.7% - and you can read down the rest of the list that same way.

Even the ones with no increase will still show numbers in both columns - like NFTs which are currently at 5% and will still be at 5% after February 14th.

[lisa5768]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

My category went up another approx 1.5 percent. At least that’s what I am calculating. It was 13 something percent and now it’s 15 percent.

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@vintagecraze50  What category are you looking at?  I don't see any increases that size on any of them for either store or no store options.

[72kuda]

Note that the "Final Fee" appears to include shipping fees that your buyer pays, the price of your item and the tax that is paid to the gov't.  So Ebay gets "x%" of that total.  I think it's wrong for Ebay to include the tax and shipping costs to their cut of the sale.

[mentality_positive_llc]

First and foremost: Tax and shipping should not be included in the final value fee.

Second: This increase is not going to help Ebay innovate to keep up with Amazon. It's to increase profits. I knew there would be increases before I even got to that part of the article because of the way the article was written. Business speak, look at us and how great we are, blah blah blah. Followed up with it's SO worth to pay us more money! 

Third: If I pay for a store subscription, I should get a final value fee credit aside from some small processing fee. Basic store subscriptions should get a few bucks worth of credits each month, and it should scale up from there.

[mentality_positive_llc]

So romantic! It makes selling on ebay so much more profitable!

[evry1nositswindy]

Man, books already went up recently and they are up again.  15.3% is a lot!

[valueaddedresource]

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@72kuda wrote:

Note that the "Final Fee" appears to include shipping fees that your buyer pays, the price of your item and the tax that is paid to the gov't.  So Ebay gets "x%" of that total.  I think it's wrong for Ebay to include the tax and shipping costs to their cut of the sale.

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@72kuda true, I just didn't note it because that has been true for so many years now I didn't think it really needed noting. 😂

It's a long standing complaint amongst sellers and I get why it seems unfair but also get why eBay made that decision all those years ago to include the shipping (personally I have far more of a problem with the tax being included for the fee calculation since under marketplace facilitator laws it isn't even paid to the seller) but either way....there are already many, many threads about this topic in the community that are better suited for that discussion since they will continue long after these update specific topics have closed.

[macman4623]

For most items i sell, odds of a multiple item order are slim, and with the ground advantage cubic rates, its more hassle to break out shipping than include it.

Ok, i have a 2lb $40 item that costs $6.50 to ship to minnesota and $7.75 to ship to california. Im just going to guess on the dimensions and weight and just offer free shipping, because in the grand scheme of things, the $1 difference in shipping costs isnt worth the hassle of figuring out exact shipping costs at time of listing

[imurray1216]

eBay decided they are allowed to help themselves to more of our money for ZERO added effort or increase of quality on their end. Thanks for nothing 💛