eBay

theblizzman · ‎10-27-2022

Ebay is charging there 12.55% fee on all procedes collected for a sale. They are only intitled to fees from the purchase price. Instead they charge seller 12.55% of the shipping and taxes charged for the item. This is fraud and they should be help accountable for it. I have sold my last item on ebay, enough is enough.

lakefor94 · ‎10-27-2022

@theblizzman wrote:
Ebay is charging there 12.55% fee on all procedes collected for a sale. They are only intitled to fees from the purchase price. Instead they charge seller 12.55% of the shipping and taxes charged for the item. This is fraud and they should be help accountable for it. I have sold my last item on ebay, enough is enough.

You are making this up. Posting of misinformation.

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johnrj1226 · ‎10-28-2022

This has been going on for a while. But it appears you haven't sold much and haven't kept up withe the eBay ANNOUNCEMENTS. For example - eBay & PayPal started charging their fees in Nov. 2011. More recently the sales taxes came into play.

Nothing illegal, illicit or immoral about it.

But I will say: Au Avoir, Adios, Au Wiedersehen, Sayronara, Au Revior, Aloha, Adjö & Ciao! Of course, Good-Bye!

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powell-memorabilia · ‎10-28-2022

Ugh - now I should remove you from my favorite sellers list. Let me know where you go so I can still buy from you.

you might want to contact your state’s attorney general about this issue. eBay might counter with their clearly laid out and clear fee disclosures, but we all know that this is clearly fraud.

johnrj1226 · ‎10-28-2022

One more thing - it sounds like your doing what some kids in my youth would say when they didn't like the rules for a game of marbles we all were playing and that was "I'm just going to pick up my marbles and go home."

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"Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution." A. Einstein
"The Devil made me do it!" - Flip Wilson
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baydistributionllc · ‎10-28-2022

Taxing the tax is rather disgusting.

Feeing the shipping also sucks but remember when they didn’t fee the shipping and everything was $1 with $38 shipping? It went on like that for some time before they started feeing the shipping. They have to fee shipping or the price/shipping won’t make sense while sellers try to avoid fees by putting the real price in the shipping.

Feeing the tax however, thats too much. Sellers don’t set the tax. I understand the 3% to process the payment of the tax but the additional 10% is gross.

It definitely in no way resembles fraud.

For everything that happens conditions exist such that nothing else could have happened.

halfgweilo · ‎10-28-2022

There or their

Procedes or proceeds

Intitled or entitled

Help or held

Enough is correct... 🙄🙄

pickermall · ‎10-28-2022

It's that time of the day again... do people just cut and paste from other posts?

dbfolks166mt · ‎10-28-2022

Taxing the tax is rather disgusting.

Feeing the shipping also sucks but remember when they didn’t fee the shipping and everything was $1 with $38 shipping? It went on like that for some time before they started feeing the shipping. They have to fee shipping or the price/shipping won’t make sense while sellers try to avoid fees by putting the real price in the shipping.

Feeing the tax however, thats too much. Sellers don’t set the tax. I understand the 3% to process the payment of the tax but the additional 10% is gross.

It definitely in no way resembles fraud.

While I do not like the fees being applied to the sales tax and the shipping any more than most I can totally understand this from a business perspective but like you said the additional 10% is excessive. The sales tax application as a result of the supreme court decision in Wayfair vs South Dakota was a train wreck eBay didn't see coming when they switched to MP. If you look at it from a business perspective and some generalized calculations based on eBay's 2021 GMV of 87 billion and using an average sales tax rate of 6%. EBay would have collected about 5.2 billion in sales tax and collected about 670 million in fees. If the CC processing fee is 3% that still leaves eBay with around $650 million in revenue. Of course out of that revenue they have to cover the people to monitor and adjust as the tax laws change and of course the IT staff to adjust the programs and software but you can cover a LOT of costs with $650 million.

Could they adjust this? Sure they could but why would they? You can apply the same business logic to the shipping and the revenue loss is probably what drove the change to applying the fees to the shipping.

luxgoods · ‎10-28-2022

Yawn Boring

laststopgeneralstore · ‎10-28-2022

You've been on eBay almost 20 years and never once read the terms of service or the countless seller updates? I'm sorry but that's on your for being stupid and not paying attention. Also, what eBay is doing is not fraud at all and it's clearly stated in the terms of service that you read and accepted.

bonjourami · ‎10-28-2022

Another graduate of the Google School of Law.

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donsdetour · ‎10-28-2022

@theblizzman wrote:
Ebay is charging there 12.55% fee on all procedes collected for a sale. They are only intitled to fees from the purchase price. Instead they charge seller 12.55% of the shipping and taxes charged for the item. This is fraud and they should be help accountable for it. I have sold my last item on ebay, enough is enough.

So you have not known what it cost to sell on eBay for how long??

Use to amaze me that folks did not know this. Lack of knowing how to keep a basic set of books for sure.

eBay fees are such that fees still work out to what it cost using PP and eBay. Now it is just in one place so you can know see it.

It is all wrote out for you on ebay if you had bother to find it.

Oh you left out that international fee on all of it that can show up as well.

Best look that one up also....

Good luck on what ever you do.

OH and your lack of knowing, is not fraud.

It is called ignorance.

A great deal of such on eBay.

Sellers that do not know what it cost to sell here is more common than one would think.

Crazy but true.

janet9988 · ‎10-28-2022

Technically ebay could sue the OP for defamation.

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maxine*j · ‎10-28-2022

@theblizzman wrote:
Ebay is charging there 12.55% fee on all procedes collected for a sale. They are only intitled to fees from the purchase price. Instead they charge seller 12.55% of the shipping and taxes charged for the item. This is fraud and they should be help accountable for it. I have sold my last item on ebay, enough is enough.

Tell them that. And tell it it every other payment processor on Planet Earth, since they have all been charging their merchant fees on the total amount charged to the customer -- for merchandise, handling, shipping, sundry charges, sales tax -- since the invention of the credit card.

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dbfolks166mt · ‎10-28-2022

Technically ebay could sue the OP for defamation.

They could try. However a company suing an individual for defamation must prove that the statement had an adverse financial impact on the company. Given the business environment something that is VERY difficult to do and prove.