Been on DECADES - I'm finally leaving!!! - Fees RIDICULOUS!!! CLOSING ACCOUNT!!! eBay is DISHONEST!!

[oh-so-charming]

Just sold an item for $2000 with free ship. Between Paypal and eBay, fees are $260!!!!

After nearly 20 years- eBay you've FINALLY managed to drive me out. I have an above average standing with very very low (zero, really) returns and dissatification on two accounts.

I've read your fee's description:

"Seller A sold some Business & Industrial equipment in the Commercial Printing Presses category. The total amount of the sale including shipping is $4,650. The seller has an Above Standard seller performance level and an evaluation of Low for 'Item not as described' returns on eBay.com in the Business & Industrial category.

Final value fee calculation: 2% of $4,650 = $93"

And you're FULL OF IT!!! 2% - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Going to Amazon, SEE YA.

[escuintla]

This the reality many sellers are going to, or are facing nowadays. Between Ebay and the subsequent line of charges, be these shipping, insurance, shipping supplies, price of the item sold, yada, yada, yada.....there won't be anything left. 

It is not a rant, it is a mathematical equation or whatever you want to call it, perhaps reality. 

[everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures]

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@oh-so-charming wrote:

Just sold an item for $2000 with free ship. Between Paypal and eBay, fees are $260!!!!

After nearly 20 years- eBay you've FINALLY managed to drive me out. I have an above average standing with very very low (zero, really) returns and dissatification on two accounts.

I've read your fee's description:

"Seller A sold some Business & Industrial equipment in the Commercial Printing Presses category. The total amount of the sale including shipping is $4,650. The seller has an Above Standard seller performance level and an evaluation of Low for 'Item not as described' returns on eBay.com in the Business & Industrial category.

Final value fee calculation: 2% of $4,650 = $93"

And you're FULL OF IT!!! 2% - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Going to Amazon, SEE YA.

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OK good luck but you may want to read Amazon's fees before you start selling there.

[everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures]

It is an incomplete mathematical equation...and one that is ignoring the additional fees the seller with the low performance ratings would be paying. ...which also was announced and went into effect a month ago. ETC ETC
But other than that the fees have been pretty much the same for years and not really anything too new.

Your shipping costs, materials, are that and you can control those and have nothing to do with ebay.....and those exist no matter where you sell.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

You can't count PayPal fees as they are fees for processing the payment (which you would have to pay someone to do regardless of where you sold it online)

[m60driver]

As the old saying goes, it is easy to make money but it far harder to keep it.

[escuintla]

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@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:

It is an incomplete mathematical equation...and one that is ignoring the additional fees the seller with the low performance ratings would be paying. ...which also was announced and went into effect a month ago. ETC ETC
But other than that the fees have been pretty much the same for years and not really anything too new.

Your shipping costs, materials, are that and you can control those and have nothing to do with ebay.....and those exist no matter where you sell.

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Ebay gets a % of shipping expenses from me. The mail carriers increase their charges, Ebay gets more from me. Take Ebay out of my shipping charges, then we can talk. 

[no-plain-white-envelopes]

I get that fees are high , but why not write them off on your taxes. I don't get why people fail to do that.

[nc-daydreamer]

I am confused, so please pardon me. But if you've been selling for so long, then you surely read your contract with eBay and PayPal? Clearly, a seller agrees to give up between an average of 10 and 15 percent of each sale (depending on category) in fees between the two of them. This is not new and it affects every seller, every sale, every time, and has for years.  So you knew and agreed to this in advance, before you listed any thing for sale.  Sellers  keep about 85% of what they get, less any other expenses like actual shipping costs. So, I'll take 85% over nothing (zero sales) any day.  Are you not happy with the amount of money you get to keep? Be happy you got a sale, while the rest of us struggle.  🙂

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

Did you sell in a 2% category or a 10% category? Most sellers pay about 13% final value and Paypal fees give or take. Looks like that’s what you paid.

[escuintla]

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@no-plain-white-envelopes wrote:

I get that fees are high , but why not write them off on your taxes. I don't get why people fail to do that.

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It is not about reporting them on your taxes as expenses, it is about the fact that somebody said shipping charges don't have anything to do with Ebay. They do. If I were aware that the USPS, Fedex, UPS and DHL were increasing their charges as something coming from being a seller, no problem, it is what it is. But on top of that, Ebay too gets its hands greased with my dough. That increase is augmented by Ebay getting their cut. Right, or wrong?

[fern*wood]

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@no-plain-white-envelopes wrote:

I get that fees are high , but why not write them off on your taxes. I don't get why people fail to do that.

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Many sellers feel they don't have to include ebay sales when they file their taxes.

[no-plain-white-envelopes]

We've been paying this expense or several years now so the whining should have been done back when it started. Also again write it off as another expense and move on. On a side note had some sellers not been so dishonest with there shipping when this changed it may have been years before it was an added fee.

If you were to go back to 2011 you could find sellers with Nike Jordans at $4.99 BIN and a $149.99 shipping charge.

[no-plain-white-envelopes]

Foolish not to claim.

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

Changing fees on the total is the most fair way to charge them. You can either absorb the new increase and pay the same fees or you can increase the total and pass along the increased fees to your buyer. 

If casts gop for everyone it is like a floating boat. The casts should all flow through to the buyer anyway. If anyone should complain it is the buyers.