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.

[paxilill]

The fees on shipping and taxes is beyond dumb. Asking sellers to eat it just because shareholder value is not a solid business plan, unless you're looking to become Temu with products built on slave labor with four digit margins 

[toughttopaper]

GREAT. THANKS. I was already noticing lately, after not having sold in a little while, how much E-Bay was taking away from any money I make. And now you want to take MORE? You only do this because you know you're one of the easiest sites to list and sell on. It's like when there's one specialist doctor in an area, the doctor is awful at his job. But you need a specialist, and he knows that, so you just have to deal with his horrible behavior anyway. I honestly hope for more sites to sell on grow bigger, so that E-Bay can get off its high horse about being the "best in town". 

I'm sorry if that comes off as angry, but honestly what did you expect?

[sugarbaber]

If eBay didn't apply the FVF to the shipping and tax, I honestly don't think I would care about this "adjustment". But applying the fees to shipping and tax is just a b*llsh*t way to treat your valued sellers, pardon my language. 

I've been selling on eBay for 25 years (off and on--recently ON). 

Dear eBay, 

Please take your "adjusted" fees and take them out of my items. You've absolutely earned the fee on the item.

Taking fees out of shipping and taxes, well, that's a great way to make sellers very angry. And it escalates every time you do it. 

I don't go to the other platforms because I did my research. The other platforms are worse. But recently when Mercari made fee changes, they realized they messed up and went back to their original.

EVERY SELLER, I'm guessing, wishes that eBay would go back to taking the fee from the item, and not the item PLUS shipping & tax, which seems wrong. Really wrong. 

Ebay: You have a ton of money. You are making a ton of money every day. I am a small seller, selling maybe 15 to 25 items a month; none of them over $150. Let me make my modest income doing this thing I love, and stop taking money out of my pocket. I'm the little guy. You could save us this FVF on shipping if you took less for your executive salaries, or perks, or bonuses, right? Why don't you do that? 

P.S. I hate your AI listings. They're ugly and unhelpful. As a buyer, I won't buy from a  seller who uses AI. That guy seems lazy to me. Whatever you paid for AI, it was too much. Try to get your money back. I wish I wasn't paying for it. And yes, you are welcome to look at my eBay store/listings. I am not using it. Hate it. 

[bbexperience]

You can argue against the fee being calculated on the total the buyer pays, but it's always been that way. Just to be clear that that isn't new with the fee increase.

[ca_reibo]

FVF ON SHIPPING

I remember way back,  when ebay started charging an FVF in shipping-- sellers were listing items for extremely low prices, then charging double and triple digits for shipping, with a fee only for the item.  I get that. 
But when a seller buys a shipping label from ebay, and it is equal to what the buyer pays--that is just unabashed greed. 
eBay's fees are now nearly equal to my profit margin, and if I raise prices, I will lose my competitive edge and lose sales. 
I do not use the new features for which I am now being charged. I think the IT people make unhelpful changes to keep their jobs, instead of appearing idle. 
Just more reasons to sell on Facebook Marketplace and other free venues, and use ebay only for occasional purchases. 

[andradeestatesales]

Totally agree that eBay should not include shipping fees  and tax when they take their cut.  That's a big rip-off.

[bartholomr4]

You must think we are stupid.  The price charged for an item either goes up or down based on market influence.  If all these seller tools ebay is installing are working then sales should be rising and therefore prices are rising.  An increase in the final value fee is just ANOTHER move by ebay to take more from the seller. The argument that you have to raise the % of the sale in order to cover cost is a lie.  And every “tool enhancement” you have deployed over the last 5 years comes with a seller fee.  

The fact is ebay is an old decrepit site which is bureaucratic as hell, hard for sellers, hard for buyers and draws no real unique sellers.  Ebay is not a destination any longer.  Instead it has become a site where sellers have to pay ebay a fee, in order to pay google a fee, in order to get products the buyer searches for outside of ebay seen.   It is time to move on to other vehicles whose sole mission is to create that destination for consumers to buy.  At some point in time, eBay’s ability to milk the seller will end, and the real truth will come out, which is sellers are leaving and ebay has no answer other to charge the remaining sellers a higher percentage of sales. 

Please ebay, stop milking the seller, and invest in the buyer experience.  You have milked me dry

[lukeshiddenhavenpa]

Is there an increase in fees fr Non-Profit sellers?

[adbu-10]

I don’t believe it’s good business practice to force sellers to pay fees  on items beyond their control. If a seller is choosing the shipping carrier and speed, then go ahead and charge. If it’s a default chosen by ebay, then no way. Same with taxes. I don’t choose where my buyer is located so I don’t choose the tax rate. I shouldn’t pay ebay a fee for what the local government charges a buyer. It’s like my real employer charging me a fee for taking taxes out of my paycheck. No one does that. 

[markles_5]

Wow, this is sad. I sold an item for $40, charged the customer for shipping, and got a final pay out of $33.50 or so. These fees are insane already. Now they are increasing? Goodbye ebay. I am about to take down my items and sell somewhere else. 35% should not be acceptable and I don't see how anyone can make money with fees that high. 

[revenue-collector]

I agree when it comes to sales tax. That's bovine excrement.

However eBay is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to shipping & handling. Historically, eBay didn't originally charge fees on S&H, until the site was overrun by sellers (most in China) changing from $50 + $9.99 S&H to $0.99 + $59.99 S&H, in order to escape paying fees. And then that method spread.

Like it or not, the only FAIR ways are:

1. Include the S&H in the fee calculation,

2. Have a per-category cap on maximum S&H, which gets very complicated and restrictive, especially if you sell group lots of items in addition to single items, or categories where dimensions and weights are extremely variable, or

3. Force everyone to use eBay's calculated S&H rates, which would be an ABSOLUTE DISASTER. No one wants this.

The fee percentages have gotten out of hand though, and their playing dirty pool with taking fees on sales tax is the bigger problem. It's borderline criminal IMO.

[da_cleaner]

eBay has had stealth fee increases all of last year and the year before that and the year before that, etc. because of the large increase in postal rates. January 2024 media mail was $4.13, now it is $4.63. Higher postal costs have resulted in higher stealth fee income for eBay.

In the music CD category at $4.63 eBay takes .1495% or .69 cents away from your actual postage cost. So for a seller not to lose money on shipping you need to raise the shipping price. So I would need to charge $5.45 shipping so that I don't lose money on shipping. $5.45 x .1495 fee = .81. $5.45-.81 fee = $4.64.

Of course charging $5.45 shipping for a music CD results in a seller not selling any.

Or raising the selling price $5.45 and offering free shipping will also result in no sales.

[alcoforever]

@selsa84

It does list the exceptions:

Collectibles>Non-sport Trading Cards

Collectibles>Comic Books & Memorabilia

[bomar_97]

I'm always happy to see that Ebay gets nearly 19% of my asking sale price ( considering their % includes the tax paid and the shipping) and that they now want more.    🙄

[kurtzzzz]

i opted in on to gain more visibility for a price,  don't trust pay per click, seems to me it could be easily manipulated internally for ones benefit to charge us sellers more,  been with ebay over 23 yrs,  the fees haven't benefited our sales/profits likewise for whats spoken or highlighted,  yes google also wants an extra piece of the pie is the problem here also,  problem is our bottom line(sellers)and affordability to buy product, sell for a profit and get the actual visibility which we don't get these days due to not getting proper visibility at any costs, period,  corporate mentality at work only for their benefit,  sad day again with the online selling platforms