Charged selling fee on top of buyers shipping fee

[pennywiser]

I sold an item for $8.95 plus $1.05 for shipping buyer pays. eBay took my selling fee off the $10 total and then charges my bank account the $1.05 even though I have "pay shipping cost from my funds".  This makes me 13¢ in the negative. I'm concerned this isn't the only time eBays done this that I haven't caught and probably won't be the last. Can they do this our is it a violation on eBays part and I should contact them to let them know I want it fixed and stopped?

[refdef]

I'm not sure that I understand the situation.  You should have had $8.71 (minus sales taxes and fees on the sales tax) proceeds from that sale.  Pretty sure eBay defaults to taking whatever you owe them from your available funds from sale proceeds.  Unless shipping cost a bit more than your proceeds, or unless you already had a negative funds balance, I don't understand how the math works on this one.

[hartungcards]

Guess what?  eBay also charged you a FVF on whatever sales tax your buyer paid on that $10, plus another 30 cents transaction fee.  And guess what else? This isn't the only time eBay has done this, as this is how FVFs have worked for quite some time now, and these things are all clearly explained in the User Agreement you signed onto.  Go ahead, contact them to let them know you want it fixed and stopped, and see how far you get.

[sapphire_studio]

If eBay took money out of your bank account it's because you didn't have enough available funds to cover it. Maybe you had a different item (that had already been paif to your bank account) that somebody did a case about reducing your available funds to 0 or negative.

  It's kind of unclear if you know this from your post but yes you do pay fees on the shipping cost and even the sales tax.

[refdef]

If you could, go to the transaction details in the seller hub and screenshot the payout particulars.  That will tell you exactly what happened.  Post the screenshot here for us, please.

[monica-sells]

any debits or charges to your account are visible in the transaction history....

I do not see an 8.95 sale in your history with this id?

[pennywiser]

Guess what? You don't sound as smart as you think. What you just explained has nothing to do with how my transaction was done. eBay charged their fees on top on the shipping cost that the buyer paid for. How does that work? You take the shipping cost out then you charge fees on top of of the sellers revenue. In the end it cost the seller more then 12.9% plus 30¢ when they're including the shipping cost as your profit. It may be pennies now but it adds up.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@pennywiser wrote:

I sold an item for $8.95 plus $1.05 for shipping buyer pays. eBay took my selling fee off the $10 total and then charges my bank account the $1.05 even though I have "pay shipping cost from my funds".  This makes me 13¢ in the negative. ...

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eBay's final value fee is charged on the buyer's entire payment, including shipping, handling, and sales tax if any.  So that 13 cents represents the 12.9% final value fee on the $1.05 that the buyer paid for shipping.  

eBay has been charging a final value fee based on the buyer's total payment including shipping since 2011.

[ms.rodriguez*]

You need to charge more than 1.05 to ship an item. Don't forget postal rates go up on Jan. 23.  I have yet to see ebay make a mistake on any of my sold items. (I sell w/ 2 other IDs.  Ebay's math is correct.)  If the buyer is in a foreign country, the fee is about 1% higher.  Maybe that is the discrepancy that you see.  Anyway, like someone posted, you can see the exact breakdown of this sale in MY EBAY. 

[brredf_87]

Basically did the exact same thing to me, even if the difference of applying their 13% on the final total vs. on the subtotal before tax and shipping isn't astronomical it's still very shady and misleading. I also love how their transaction figures are scattered conveniently all around several different pages in the most nonsensical and confusing manner possible.  I guess fraud and deception is jut too darn easy to see when the figures are stacked, itemized w/description and arranged neatly in one place. The trashiest part is how they managed to charge myself for the shipping as well as the buyer, although I was assured that wasn't going to happen.