It is standard practice in the financial industry to charge feed on the entire transaction.
If you sell an item for $10, and charge your customer$10 for shipping, and the buyer's state charges 5% of the selling price as sales tax, the fees will be charged on the $20.50 cents PLUS a 30c non-refundable service charge.
If your category charges 12.9% FVF, that means a $2.64 cost for selling on eBay.
This is one of the reasons old hand sellers say "You make your money when you buy, not when you sell."
If you paid $1 for the item, paid $9.50 for shipping, and took five minutes (at $15 an hour minimum wage or 25c a minute) to photograph, describe and list your item, your total costs were $17.89 on the customer's payment of $20.50 and you profit is $ 2.61.
Roughly a little over 2% of the sale.
You can look for cheaper goods.
You can look for goods that can be sold for more.
You can find cheaper shipping services.
You can learn to list faster.
Selling online is hard.
