01-08-2025
04:58 AM
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01-08-2025
09:33 AM
by
kh-vince
First, I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the covenant we all adhere to but I'm not sure everyone is aware of it. When you ship to a foreign registered buyer who uses a US-based forwarding company you pay an extra 1.65% in fees on the total sale price even though you are mailing to an address in the US.
01-08-2025
05:02 AM
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01-08-2025
08:18 AM
by
kh-vince
Nothing new, it has to do with the foreign currency.
01-08-2025 05:23 AM
Also, some may not be aware that you won't be charged that fee if you ship through the EIS (ebay international shipping) program.
01-08-2025 05:37 AM
I don't feel toady.
01-08-2025 05:42 AM - edited 01-08-2025 06:11 AM
@fern*wood wrote:Also, some may not be aware that you won't be charged that fee if you ship through the EIS (ebay international shipping) program.
While this is true for those that choose to ship internationally. eBay has never created a tool that allows sellers to block a foreign payment method when they choose NOT TO SHIP to buyer's outside the USA.
It's funny how a freight forwarding style transaction will incur this extra fee but when it comes to their own in house EIS program, they give those sellers big fat pass on that extra 1.75%.
01-08-2025 05:46 AM - edited 01-08-2025 06:33 AM
01-08-2025 05:47 AM
So, what do you want to do about that? Cancel the transaction?
01-08-2025 06:34 AM
Ribbit...ribbit...
01-08-2025 07:08 AM - edited 01-08-2025 07:17 AM
@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:First, for all the ebay toadies I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the covenant we all adhere to but I'm not sure everyone is aware of it. When you ship to a foreign registered buyer who uses a US-based forwarding company you pay an extra 1.65% in fees on the total sale price even though you are mailing to an address in the US.
For your gratuitously obnoxious observation, I hope you get nothing but freight forwarders for the rest of the year.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my lily pad.
01-08-2025 07:37 AM - edited 01-08-2025 07:44 AM
For what it's worth, the OP does use eBay International Shipping, but the overall shipping prices on some of their listings is approaching astronomical. A set of drinking glasses that ships to the eIS hub for about $14 by Ground Advantage has almost $40 added to that by eIS to get them to my location in Canada. That charge of $53 and change is not going to be any lower in price for any other international location.
I can see some buyers with access to Freight Forwarders making use of them if the FF can get the OP's items to them less expensively.
01-08-2025 07:44 AM
If 1.65% is going to break you, there are larger issues needing to be addressed.
01-08-2025 07:51 AM
@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:First, for all the ebay toadies I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the covenant we all adhere to but I'm not sure everyone is aware of it. When you ship to a foreign registered buyer who uses a US-based forwarding company you pay an extra 1.65% in fees on the total sale price even though you are mailing to an address in the US.
For those not aware, here's the info that explains when the international fee is charged:
01-08-2025 09:09 AM
" . . . it has to do with the foreign currency."
[Annoying Buzzer Sound] Wrong!
The original poster has understood it right. He paraphrased a policy of several sentences with this one sentence:
"When you ship to a foreign registered buyer who uses a US-based forwarding company you pay an extra 1.65% in fees on the total sale price even though you are mailing to an address in the US."
The only criteria upon which eBay bases this additional 1.65% fee are addresses.
But it is true that this is not a new eBay policy.
01-08-2025 09:15 AM
"It's funny how a freight forwarding style transaction will incur this extra fee but when it comes to their own in house EIS program, they give those sellers big fat pass on that extra 1.75%."
Two points:
1. The International Fee for US sellers on eBay.com is currently "only" 1.65%.
2. eBay's International Shipping program (EIS) is essentially eBay's own freight-forwarding service. It seems, to me at least, very fair -- not "funny" at all -- that eBay charges no international fee on transactions delivered through the EIS.
01-08-2025 09:17 AM
@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:First, for all the ebay toadies I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the covenant we all adhere to
If you mean the page titled "Selling Fees" where eBay tells you what the selling fees are, then yes that is correct.
The international fee It even has its own section explaining how it works:
We charge an international fee if either: