Every time I see posts like this it makes me wonder how sellers are managing their accounting and whether or not they know what their actual profit is after fees when they price their inventory.
Items sold in March generate the income to pay fees for March. Are a lot of sellers operating in a way that they use the following month's sales to pay the fees for the previous month's sales?
Are sellers taking the full amount from PayPal without leaving enough to cover their monthly eBay bill? Would they be doing the same with PayPal if PayPal sent a monthly invoice instead of removing their fees instantly?
With managed payments the fees are not taken before you receive your payments; they're added to your monthly invoice just like your eBay selling fees are. Will sellers that consistently spend money in advance be able to manage that?
If sellers are finding themselves in this kind of situation they might benefit from making one-time payments throughout the month on a weekly basis - or even on a per-sale basis if they have trouble with weekly payments.
I'm not ragging on anybody who takes this sort of approach and I realize that this pandemic has created a unique situation and it's been hard financially on a lot of people who have had to take that money and pay other bills which is probably why so many people are discussing this topic.
I'm posting with hopes that somebody in a situation where they spend their PayPal money every single month without putting anything aside for their eBay invoice (year-round, not just because of this virus) will read this and it will help them find a different way to manage things like weekly payments that I mentioned above.
Getting Darwinian and speculative here ... managed payments may be the thing that proves to be too difficult for some sellers to handle.
