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.

[akfiddlesticks]

F**K you guys and your fees. And F**K your fees on SALES TAX that I don't COLLECT!!!

I am DONE selling here. The collapse of eBay is going to be very satisfying to watch. I look forward to the mockery that ensues. VERY MUCH look forward to it...

Because that's what it boils down to. Greed. You're all greedy sons of **bleep**es.

I hope that squeezing every dime, nickel, & cent out of the small-guy was worth it. Because I'll be damned if I give you another penny. I might just be one person hoping to to effect a change... But at least I'm not paying you to F**K ME OVER anymore.

[blueskyline2]

I’m also a 25 year seller. It’s getting less and less attractive to sell here  all the time. They let buyers screw us over with bogus claims and won’t even back us up.  I was out over $20 in shipping, but they felt generous by giving me a $6 credit for reporting the buyer. What a crock!  

[ittybitnot]

To support our ongoing investments in enhanced tools and expanded protections.....



Is there a list someplace of these "expanded protections"?  What are they, and why are they so expensive?   

[oksmix0y2w]

I just paid $15 in fees on a $60 sale and now you want to charge MORE? All the seller tools ebay  goes on about mean nothing to me. All eBay does is offer reach, that’s it. Right now eBay is too greedy nd needs to rethink this fee structure. At this point the only way to really make money on ebay is if you got the item for free. The fact that I never was notified about this and only found out on accident shows eBay knows these fees are too high. 

[revenue-collector]

Folks, please keep in mind that the only good that posting here does is to vent, myself included. eBay does not care what you think, what I think, or what anyone with feedback less than 6 figures actually thinks.

Our comments here will never be read by anyone of substance within eBay, let alone acted upon.

It's the online equivalent of primal scream therapy.

eBay is going to do what eBay wants to do, and the perpetual state of change for change's sake, the premature rollout of bugs... err, "features", and continously fixing things until they are completely broken, will continue... all the while we will pay higher fees for the privilege.

Remember eBay's corporate motto: Here at eBay, we're not happy unless you're not happy!

[philrz28]

It's the same corporate bottom-line story, and that line must move because greed prevents it from being stagnant. Instead of being happy around 10% , eBay continues to carve away at the meager profits Sellers tend to achieve. There is no way any category item fee should be in the 12 - 15% range especially when you realize that their profits are entirely dependent on our items we list here. As a company, their steadily increasing fees approach will only lower overall sales as Sellers reach the tipping point of having to raise prices in order to combat higher percentage grabs which drives Buyers to other markets. Give it time and the so called brilliant minds making these decisions will have to explain themselves as profit charts dive. ↘️ 

[timothy-22]

Yearly compensation package for eBay C E O is 21 million.  Since us sellers are basically getting a paycut in the form of fee raises,  I wonder how much of a pay cut he is taking?  Let me guess, zero.   Our pay cuts are funding his pay raise, along with pay raises for the rest of those at the top of the pyramid.

[minisquach78]

Thanks for taking more of our money! People wonder why prices go up, well its because you keep raising what you take from us! you take more and have really changed nothing for sellers you constantly restrict what can be sold and Its getting ridiculous. After you change the fees you also charge more when we have to go back and revise listings to account for them.  

[minisquach78]

Need more than you made the last few years? 2023 you made about 10 billion dollars off your sellers and you've raised prices more since then. its almost impossible to reach a real human representative when a seller needs help so you clearly aren't paying more people. The sight hasn't had any significant changes to make the selling or buying experience better or different. 

[gonethrifting85730]

As if we don't pay enough in fees, now they want to raise them? I honestly don't know WHY I continue to sell on here. The CEO is a billionaire and they keep raising our fees, meanwhile, a buyer can leave us negative feedback for ANY reason AND return an item for 'not liking it.'  Sellers have 0 support from eBay. I think I'll stick to FB Marketplace...cash in hand. No returns. 

[wayt00many]

Increasing on books is so backwards, so much for a push for cheaper options for reading and education and making it more readily available. 

[masterdragon888]

Yes, totally agreed, seriously considering stop selling on eBay, it seems they forgot how they started… being supported by people selling their items from their basements.

High selling fees, high shipping charges, getting hit with 1099 IRS forms. How cheap you have to sell an item so people are interested in buying something after all these fees. 
Not worth all the effort!

[adkhighker]

Dear eBay:  How is raising eBay fees for sellers "Enhancing your eBay Experience?" Is it the same kind of "enhancing" you did when you "enhanced" the old eBay shipping calculator by replacing it with the new horrible one that nobody likes?  Could you please enhance our day a tiny bit by at least giving us back the old shipping calculator which was so much better than the new stupid one?

[buttforebargains]

nobody asked you to make these bad investments into "AI tools" that don't know what words mean. that's on you and we the sellers shouldn't have to pay for your screw ups. 

[shakespeare]

It seems that eBay has decided we should pay for their "enhancements" (read: AI). Nobody wants AI.

Now descriptions that I use are all AI because we have at least 20 descriptive items to add to each listing. Perhaps we should unionize, lol not lol. In a way, if we didn't use their site globally, they wouldn't be in business. What a shame it has come to this. Guess my buyers want to foot the cost (sarcasm).