Fees

[vacs_for_less]

I've been selling on ebay for many years but am becoming discouraged with it.  When I see how much they take, (13+%)  I am ok with that, but charging us the same percentage for the shipping and tax amount paid by buyer is a bit much!  We don't see that money.  I understand why they do it, it makes them more money but I don't understand how they can do it.

[kibble-net]

OP, if you don't feel you are getting enough value from ebay, you are free to sell somewhere else.

As someone who sold things primarily through my own website for many years, I much prefer it here. But your mileage may vary.

[janet9988]

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@bgt_masters_of_tiki_d wrote:

Ebay charges (depending on if you promote or not) 4x as much as paypal did. It is getting to the point where some items I sell are no longer worth selling because I charge exact shipping (have to because shipping can vary from $30-$115 depending on where the item is going). Since ebay keeps 15% of that, it really eats into any profit on certain items.

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Then don't list on ebay. Ebay is doing nothing different than all other payment processors.

[soh.maryl]

There is no eBay requirement that sellers "promote".

As I recall, Paypal charged something like 11% and eBay charged something like 2% or somewhere in that range.  So eBay's 13.6% is 4X that? 

[mam98031]

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@vacs_for_less wrote:

I've been selling on ebay for many years but am becoming discouraged with it.  When I see how much they take, (13+%)  I am ok with that, but charging us the same percentage for the shipping and tax amount paid by buyer is a bit much!  We don't see that money.  I understand why they do it, it makes them more money but I don't understand how they can do it.

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@vacs_for_less 

Ebay is our Money Processor now since mid 2020.  When PayPal was our money processor, they too charged their fees on the total amount the buyer paid.  This is pretty normal in the industry.

[johnrj1226]

It called  Money Processing  charges.  PayPal used the apply a fee for processing.  Then eBay/Pay  split up.  and eBay became both the sales fee and money  processor charger wrapped up into 1  transaction  a bit over 5  years ago. with the current Managed Payment program.  By the way  eBay's FVF fees were 10 % and the PayPal fees were 2.9% plus 30 cents - that's  real close to  what you are paying today.  Plus the Pay Pal fees were once per month vs  pay a s you go today

"Payment processing is the system that safely transfers money from a customer's payment method to a merchant's account. It involves authorizing a transaction, verifying the customer's information, and then settling the funds through a series of secure electronic steps. involving payment gateways and banks" 

Those fees are  buried into the price of any item where the seller  accepts credit/debit card payments.  Once upon a time American Express was the only Credit Card Company that had that fee. - it all changed in the mid 1980s