FEES

[nateman4ever]

Hello, I was just wondering why I keep getting a message/email from eBay ever so often saying that I have an outstanding amount owed and am charged insertion fees when I thought that I get 250 free listings every month. Am I missing something here? 

[slippinjimmy]

Well right now you have 251 listings and it's only July 1st.

[buyselljack2016 · Accepted solution]

The GTC listings that renew "monthly" count against the 250. It isn't 250 new listings every month

[nateman4ever]

Yes, but I get 250 free listings every month I thought. I've only listed 13 items this month. 

[nateman4ever]

Ok, now that is starting to make a lot more sense to me now. Thanks a lot. 

Any suggestions on an easy way to avoid all those extra listing fees each month?

Or do I have to manually check each and every item I'm selling to see when the listing ends so that I can unlist it if its not getting traffic?

[reallynicestamps]

Without a Store you get 250 listings.

If you list 250 items, and sell none, but the next month you list 13 more, you will be charged 35c(?) for each of those.

If you did sell, say, 10 of your listings last month you go into July with 240 FREE listings used and ten more FREE allowed.

If you actually add 13 you will be charged 35c(?) each for the three.

Now for those 10 sales last month, you will be charged Final Value Fees.

Usually that's 13.5%.

So if those 10 sales grossed $100, eBay Fees would be $13.50 on the sales.

But, you also shipped those ten items. Let's say you charged your buyers $10 for shipping all told.

You pay FVF on that $10.

So now you have another $1.35 in fees.

And since each buyer (not you the buyer) was charged "internet sales tax" (it's actually state, county, city, whatever) that payment which passed through your account (although you never touched it) also is charged FVF. 

If all the sales taxes were 5% on both purchase and shipping that's tax of $5.50 which you do NOT pay and eBay fees of $0.74 which you do pay*.

So the Buyer Payment totalling $115.50 means you pay eBay Final Value Fees of ...

Let's not always see the same hands....

$15.59.

And then your $1.05 in not-free listings

$16.64.

The buyer paid for shipping, so that is NOT one of your costs. But you pay those fees and you pay for packaging and you purchased the item originally (although if you used them personally, the value is eaten up)

So add your costs to the fees and subtract that from the $100 in sales.

* Yes. It's legal. It has been Standard Practice in the payment processing industry since the late 1940s.

[kensgiftshop]

Dropshipping from Amazon and other retail sites is not allowed and can get you suspended.