About how to check net sales & Hello High Final Value Fees! Go ahead and obliterate my sales! LOL

[innmytr_33]

First, what is the easiest way to check how much take home money I have actually made off a sale?? 

I am using The Seller Hub > Performance > Sales > I generate a report for the appropriate time and check the listing insights, seeing the NET SALES for the items. 

This is the money I get to keep right? 
Is there a faster way to do this or check each item individually? 

Next, I'm just a bit shocked to see I sold a VHS for $55 and I'm taking home $38 on it. I thought it would be more like $42 lowest, which granted is a $4 difference, but I feel like it all adds up. 
The final value fee of 14.95% surprised me, plus additional 30 cents a sale, I thought it was usually around 10% like the competitors. 
It was a promoted listing too... Not trying to complain, just wondering how I can more easily see where all the money is going. 

I started selling some stuff on Mecari and before you even list it, they give you an amount you'll make off the item. I like both platforms, but wondering why it seems so much more complex on Ebay to get the reports of where my money is going, (what fee to where & total I made off it) and if anyone else is having this problem or can offer the easy solution for maybe it is just my lack of understanding on how to use this website? 

Thank you all very much for your time and help! Happy Selling to my fellow sellers! 🙂

[mam98031]

Ebay isn't the lowest site for FVFs nor is it the highest.  But the fees they charge are VERY transparent and easy to find.  Most of the reports in MP will show you what fees you are paying.  

The 30 cent transaction fee has been around since about 2012 when we started with PayPal.  Now that Ebay is our money processor they charge it.

IDK what competitor that only charges 10% that gets the kind of traffic Ebay has.  Sure you may be able to find sites that cost less and if the fees are important, then you may want to take a closer look at that, but your sales may suffer because they don't have the traffic.

You set the fee on Promoted Listings, so you have got to know how much you decided you were willing to pay above the regular fees.  Only you can decide that.

To price your items correctly sellers have to know the fees they are responsible for selling.  That is the basics.

Ebay Seller Fees

Try the MP reports.  They are pretty darn good.

MP Reports

[reallynicestamps]

In a few categories eBay FVF are as low as 0-3% but not in media or in Books.

Each invoice you recieve with your customers address, etc also has "What You Earned" on it.
I'm looking at one now for two books I sold

The buyer paid $20.98 USD including shipping and GST/HST. (~$26.22 Cdn.)

The taxes passed through without touching me.

My transaction fees were $4.96 Cdn plus what I paid out for actual shipping *

So my gross earnings were $21.48  Cdn less $4.44 postage or $17.04

My actual cost for postage was lower because I use discounted postage stamps. YMMV.

And of course my packaging costs of about 10c and procurement costs  of $3.00Cdn.

So about $13.94 ish profit.

* I use Free Shipping folding my costs into the asking price- another reason why eBay charges FVF on shipping.

[mam98031]

I changed all my listings a few months ago from Free Shipping.  For some reason I was getting a rash of properly filed Buyer Remorse claims and I got tired of paying the return shipping [I also had free returns then] and I couldn't withhold the original shipping from the refund.

Now my claims are back down where they are normally, close to zero.

[dhbookds]

First, what is the easiest way to check how much take home money I have actually made off a sale?? 

Go to Seller Hub >summary......

That shows what will be transferred to your bank account

[mybigsale]

@innmytr_33

@dhbookds 

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Don't forget, if you used eBay to ship and used your available funds then your shipping charges would be accounted for.

If you use another payment method or another service such as Pirateship or take your packages to the post office and pay, you need to deduct these shipping fees from your net sales seen on eBay.