Fees are out of control

[jaynrot0]

I started selling on eBay years ago. It was worth selling a $10 item. My item that sold today for $410.00 buyer purchasing priority mail and paid taxes. My net is 217.83. The fees are out of control. It doesn’t pay anymore. I’m better off traveling to sell my vintage toys at toy shows. 

[doc-holmes]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Why do I see the same accounts over and over responding to people here in this community with nothing but upbeat and positive responses?

It's like eBay has a team of people that come in here, sit a there computer and respond to complaints all day all night to try and keep the positive image of eBay going..

I see you 

I know what you're doing..

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I get it. You're really an Amazon employee sent here to try to hurt eBay's business.

I know what you're doing. 

[johnrj1226]

Guess you  didn't   do well in math and/or the new math

[youn2240]

It's possible he could have been making some good points about some of the things he was saying. Who can really say?!

[glorybells]

People who post here act like eBay is the only company handling fees the way they do.  They actually have the lowest fees around (try selling on Amazon and Etsy!).  When I sold on Amazon, you got paid every two weeks like a regular 9 to 5 job.  If you sold something just past the cut off point for that pay cycle, you could end up waiting 3 weeks for your money.

I used to go on Uber and Lyft Facebook group.  Guess what the Number One thing was that everyone was always posting about.  Yep, fees, you’re a winner.

My main gig is doing rideshare.  The fees hover around 30%.  They take their fee off the top of the total the rider paid, THEN they take out taxes, government fees, tolls, etc.  We get what’s left.  A couple of weeks ago, with the pay summary that they sent me, I received 46% of what the riders paid that week.

My choices?  Quit doing this gig, do it and accept the fees, or be “that person” and continue to do it, knowing what the fee schedule is, and complain to anyone who will listen.  I choose to accept the fees and move onward.  That’s the same decision that eBay sellers have to make.

[adamcartwright]

@glorybells 

I come to this forum for advice and updates, and it's been great for that.

But I've noticed some people use it as social media, even people who, by their own admission, are not eBay sellers. 

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@soh.maryl wrote:

Where do you get your ideas?  

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@soh.maryl syfy channel; available on most cable companies list of channels that nobody really watches......

[redmodelt]

You joined on Aug 9, 2025 and have a feedback score of 1 and are telling us that the people that reply are bots, well they are not bots. 

But tin foil and basements come to mind! 

[soh.maryl]

Use it as social media? And, no, I am not an eBay seller.  Guess I should be banned from posting here?  

[soh.maryl]

Can you explain what the good points were?  

[Anonymous]

Here's the problem. The problem is that there's an overwhelming majority of people saying the feasal and eBay are extremely high. In fact many say it is too high. And after analyzing many many calculations I would have to agree. Charging a fee on the taxes is absolutely unbelievably wrong. I have read many many responses about why eBay does this but ultimately it's just horrible. There is no good reason to do this. I don't want to hear all the nonsense I've read about it already and to be honest with you I don't want to come in here and respond to you people anymore because that's the other part of this. 

It is quite clear with high certainty that many of you are what seem to be eBay employees. The same people over and over come in here and pretend like eBay is just the most wonderful thing ever. We all know it's not. For from it. Everything seems to be rigged. From the feedback system to the fee system. It all seems to be overwhelmingly horrible. And though this isn't just my opinion. Just Google it. You can look it up on YouTube. This is a free and open forum where people can say whatever they want and I've seen post after post after post of people saying the same exact thing and the odd thing is the same weirdo accounts keep posting in ways that would suggest they are either bots or paid employees. Because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that something's really wrong here with eBay. And if people with the same username keep popping in saying stuff like nothing's wrong everything's okay turn your head and trying to use your Jedi mind trick on people, well then that just adds to the whole big picture here of eBay having big problems and assisting with the scams going on...

[Anonymous]

Trust me. The majority of us know exactly what you're talking about. Ebay needs to charge a fee only and I mean only on the item that was sold. Sellers do not sell shipping. Sellers do not sell taxes. In fact I would go so far as to say that charging a fee on taxes is part of the racketeering laws. You cannot make a profit off of a tax. I think this has been talked about over and over on here. It's just wrong.. 

Here's the big picture. If you let a scam artist put his hand in your pocket and still one or two dollars That same scam artist is going to come back and try and steal two more dollars and he's going to keep doing that until all the money is gone. And you're going to ask where's all my money? In this game artist is going to say Will you let me take it. And then you're going to get mad but why would you get mad when you let the person steal all your money. 

So I say to you all why are you coming in here complaining when you are literally doing business with eBay who is allegedly stealing your money by way of seeing through the taxes and the shipping? 

Is it really worth your time and money to allow a scammer to come into your pocket and steal your things? 

Surely you could find a better method and another way to sell your goods. 

Imagine you have a garage sale going on and you sell all of your old Tupperware in your old clothes and it amounts to about $450.. 

The IRS comes in and they charge you taxes. 

But then let's say another person comes in and charges a fee on those taxes. 

That's what eBay does. That's what eBay is doing. 

But not to me because I ain't playing this stupid game. There's no way I would sell an item on here and in fact I would go further to say that I probably won't be buying much of anything on here. 

[soh.maryl]

You will understand why I hesitate to ask this, because you're not inexperienced here, but are you aware of the way the final value fee is calculated?

Yes, your buyer paid the shipping fee and the state sales tax.  That's as it should be? But your FVF as a seller is calculated on the total of those as well as the item price.

And did you promote?  

[Anonymous]

See this is a fine example of someone posting the same regurgitating nonsense. As if us adults cannot add subtract multiply and divide on our own. We've already done this sir. We've already made our calculations we've already analyzed everything we had to analyze and we have come up with a suggested fee of an overall total of 25% 

If you want to try to use your Jedi mind tricks and come in here and post that it's impossible that the seller is wrong and that the seller must be doing something wrong well then I guess the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of other people on the internet must be doing something wrong because let me tell you, they're also finding the same calculations. 

Would you like me to go ahead and start posting screenshots and showing you the calculations?

Would you like for me to post websites and videos of people doing those calculations and showing that the fees are upward of 25%. 

Again the reason why it's 25% is because eBay is not just charging a fee on the actual item that was sold. 

The total fee is actually being charged on the item, the shipping, and the taxes. 

It's an unbelievable scam that has been continuously perpetually playing out because people are allowing this to happen. 

Good luck to you all. You're going to need it if you continue to do business here

[Anonymous]

So you want me to believe that eBay is providing you and your family with enough money to survive and you have only 85 feedback? 

😂 

See this is another fine example of yet another bot or paid eBay account coming in here trying to create a positive image of eBay so that people do not jump ship and get off the eBay train. 

[Anonymous]

An Amazon employee doesn't have to come here and ruin anything. EBay is doing quite a good job of that all by themselves. 

You know maybe you aren't too good with Google searching but I can guarantee you that if you did a simple search and typed in eBay's fees or too high, you would come up with probably hundreds of thousands of pages of results? At the bare minimum. I guess all of those other people or Amazon employees? 

😂 

See what I'm saying folks. They got a lot of people in here that are either bots or paid employees because a normal person of decent value and morals just would not come in here and continuously post non-stop positive things about eBay when there are just so many things negative about eBay it's just unnatural. 

Like for example if you typed in Jeffrey Dahmer on Google you wouldn't have anybody saying good things about Jeffrey Dahmer..

If you did then you would probably think that that was Jeffrey Dahmer's roommate or somebody Jeffrey Dahmer was friends with. 

Similarly if somebody kept posting great things about eBay knowing that the fees are extremely high and people are having a hard time, you would consider the fact that maybe just maybe that person that continuously post positive things over and over is probably an eBay employee, paid by eBay in some way or is benefiting in some way by posting positive feedbacks when there are never posting any negative feedback. It is absolutely impossible for a person to never realize at least one two or three ways eBay is allowing scamming going on and there is no possible way that you can't recognize that the fees on eBay are too high 

It's highly unlikely that a person would come in here and create a positive outlook on the fact that a person is literally throwing away 25% of their earnings here. Why would that be positive? How could that be positive? Why would somebody continuously come in here and continuously post over and over how eBay is so great yet have the internet keep saying that eBay's fees are too high,? 

I'll bet you $100 somebody is going to come back with a response that's positive. Guaranteed. 😂 

Poor things .  Imagine having a job where you sit at home all day and trying to defend a website that is known to do terrible things to people.. 

That would really mess up a person's mind to be honest with you. And I can't take most of you serious.