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.

[malygris]

Ridiculous, another fee increase! I'll be listing on other sites...

[malygris]

I honestly thought greedbay would be dropping rates (especially in the book category). After being on here since 1998 I'm off to other selling pastures. FB marketplace seems to be a good fit. I've already sold several books with little to no fee! 

Another point, detailed seller ratings, every book seller I know has gotten dinged on the postage cost rating.  I never make money on the postage on top of which greedbay takes a cut. They need to change it to what the buyer and seller pay, if it equals (or the buyer pays less) the buyer should not be able to leave a rating. 

FYVM greedbay CEO Jamie Lannone!

[rhiggsbear]

I am sure glad I am winding down my items for sale and will soon just stop selling here on eBay.  This was a hobby for me not that I retired but between eBay's fees, fraudulent buyers, raising shipping costs and taxes, it's not worth the effort for the small low volume seller.  Especially since sales seemed to have dropped to nothing unless of course, you pay eBay MORE to promote your items.

For those that stick around, I wish you well!

[pinkbungalow]

I fully agree.  They are no different than the price gouging companies that we buy goods and services from.  It hits us from every direction....

[after9m]

Ebay search is like a wizard compared to etsy. Want to have some fun try finding anything using the etsy search. Most people use google to find things on etsy its so bad. Ebay has a decent search. At least when I search marbles I get marbles. LOL

[bishftl_collectibles]

How is it possible that my business lost over 50% of its impressions, click through and listing page views in February last  year compared to the previous 10-12 years of consistent monthly averages across the board.

Sales have been demolished to 1/5th of what they were just over a year ago.    My business model has not changed, inventory has been replenished as needed and no major price changes have occcurred over the years.   I only adjust prices to shipping twice a year.    Was there a major system wide update last February i was not aware of because this huge drop in numbers across the board happened all within a month Feb 2024.    I know that updates in the past have effected other parts of the system and engineers had no idea that it was happening.   I have had to report it multiple times before.

Now i have to decide wether to keep a failing store running,  or leave altogether.   I am already looking at options to reduce monthly fees with a smaller store as well.   

Every year you charge more and every year i get less out of the site.

[traderjax]

Well all I can say is here they go again, reaching into my pocket for some more profit.  

[samsimply]

I need to chime in with all the comments regarding fees charged on "sales tax" and "shipping".

I understand the change made many years ago to charge on shipping, but it NEEDS to be a much lower percentage or a simple fixed rate.  What good does it do to sell a $10.00 item that costs $20.00 to ship....basically you can't! 

I have spent the last hour reading over the comments and its very sad that eBay doesn't understand the simple fundamentals....WITHOUT SELLERS YOU HAVE GOT NOTHING!

I have been selling on eBay for over 25 years, and when I first started it was fun, they cared about sellers.

Now I barely sell on the platform.  My sales have declined so much I choose other ways to sell my items.

Have they not forgotten that many sellers will jump ship with the new tax laws....

Oh I could go on, but as many stated nothing will change, only more money to go in eBay pockets...

[rovan.neocities]

I fear I may be punished even more for reaching out with my concerns.

I don’t know how any small business makes a profit on eBay. eBay takes 75% of the profit on all the work I put in. Now, sales have fallen off. I went from selling a few items a day to going 3 or 4 days with zero sales. I increased the ad percentage, and that didn’t help, just made less profit on fewer sales. Still, it’s dead. So, I figured I might as well take the ads off. It sure seems like I’m being punished for not spending more.

I don’t know what eBay thinks, but most products can only be marked up 20-40%. Let’s take an item that we buy wholesale for $100.00. We mark it up 30%, making the sale price $130.00. We pay for free shipping for the customer ($10.00) and a 5% ad fee. eBay takes 12%, which is $15.60, then the ad fee of $6.50, plus the $10.00 shipping. That doesn’t work—we lose $2.10. So, let’s overprice our item at $160.00 to compensate. Again, free shipping ($10.00) and an 8% ad fee. eBay takes 12% ($19.20), plus the ad fee ($12.80), plus shipping ($10.00). That leaves us with just $18.00 compared to eBay’s $32.00.

One of my last sales was for $669.00. I literally only made $13.00. My wholesale cost for the item was $483.02. To barely undercut the competition, we listed it at $669.00, a $185.98 markup. Here’s the breakdown:

Order total: $722.52 (including tax collected from the buyer)

Sales tax collected: -$53.52

Transaction fees: -$96.13

Shipping label: -$61.13

Ad fee: -$15.17

Order earnings: $496.57 (which is not "earnings" at all)

Another concern is that to sell a small item that costs us $2.00, we have to list it for $10.00 with free shipping just to make an $0.80 profit. Meanwhile, overseas sellers offer the same item for $5.00 with free shipping. This is completely unfair to U.S. sellers.

I know what you’re thinking, if I don’t like it, I don’t have to sell on eBay. But the fact is, I do. My brick-and-mortar store of 40 years literally has no customers anymore because everyone shops online. And on top of that, I suffer from severe rheumatoid arthritis. I have never worked so long and hard for such a small amount of reward. My refrigerator is empty, and I don’t know how I will survive. Now, I finally understand why people turn to government assistance, they don’t work at all and still live better than I do.

I would also like to mention that as soon as I made a Facebook profile, that seems like the moment when my sales on eBay plummeted.

This is my final straw.

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[gotlexus14]

I love how they say, "we're adjusting the final value fees to help your business THRIVE!" Well it can't thrive if we're paying all these fees! 15% on clothing sales?? That's robbery! 

[auskey-0]

If you are going to raise the fees could you also please raise the number of listings without insertion fees to compensate? I would suggest raising it from 250 to 500.

[coolcollectiblekings]

I was about to reply to your post 20 minutes ago when I thought, "You know, I shouldn't jump to conclusions, I should go and actually read their financials first."

I highly encourage everyone to do the same, but I'm gonna sum it up for you: 

ebays NET profit margin, since it's beginning, is almost always above 20%.  NET.  Their lifetime average yearly net profit margin is 27.71%.

Those numbers DESTROY any competition and it's clearly not due to huge investments into improvements that I can't personally perceive the benefit of. 

Since eBay started, I would personally call the improvements modest, at best. 

This site basically operates the same exact way it always has. 

I am officially disgusted with myself for continuing to come back here now that I've taken a look at the financials. 

Super stoked this is only a once in a blue moon use case for me, but if any of y'all make this your job, man, I would be irate.  I'm not gonna do the math right now but they could likely chop fees in half and do 7% flat for everything and still make a profit on promoted ads.

I'm out.  My final listing here is currently up.  This is the last dime they'll ever get from me no matter how much effort I've gotta put in elsewhere.  I've worked inside eBay, NOTHING anyone does inside the company is quality.

Good luck y'all.

[coolcollectiblekings]

Y'all are legit criminals. 

This site is basically the same as it was when eBay started.  There's not a single employee inside eBay capable of quality work production.

[corya1984]

What I find the most shocking is that in 30 years no one has been able to build a platform that seriously competes with ebay. How is that even possible? Millions of apps and social media networks created and not one tech guru has thought "Gee, let's build a better ebay with lower seller fees." Only Reverb has been successful at this, but they only sell music gear. Mercari is trash, Etsy is conflated with handmade and vintage with a horrible search engine and lousy buyer protection. Ruby Lane and Cherish are overpriced goods for the wealthy.  Offerup, craigslist and FB marketplace is always a gamble. It seems so simple to build a site to sell things, yet no one has been able to do it. 

[ospreyoutdoors67]

What is an NFT?