Extra Fees On Shipping To USA Forwarding Companies

[lb23cavaliersmvp]

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.  

[jg.mason]

Nothing new, it has to do with the foreign currency. 

[fern*wood]

Also, some may not be aware that you won't be charged that fee if you ship through the EIS (ebay international shipping) program.

[hartungcards]

I don't feel toady.

[go-bad-chicken]

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@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.

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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%. 

[go-bad-chicken]

@jg.mason 

For the record I like toads.

[oszika]

So, what do you want to do about that? Cancel the transaction?

[chapeau-noir]

Ribbit...ribbit...

[fbusoni]

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@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.  

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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.

[marnotom!]

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.

[fashunu4eeuh]

If 1.65% is going to break you, there are larger issues needing to be addressed.

[wastingtime101]

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@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.  

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For those not aware, here's the info that explains when the international fee is charged:

[monroe67]

" . . . 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.  

[monroe67]

"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.  

[luckythewinner]

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@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:

First, for all the ebay toadies I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the covenant we all adhere to

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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:

• The delivery address for the item (entered by the buyer during checkout) is outside the US, or
• The buyer's registered address is outside the US (regardless of the delivery address for the item)