I've been using now for 2.5 months. eBay stated fees would be about the same or less, but my % loss on items is about 13.5%. It has gone UP. By the time everyone figures this out, eBay will have made millions more dollars. I use to lose about 11% per item in total with PayPal. I always knew what the buyer paid for shipping, and could make up about $4.00 there above and beyond the combined 13% on final value fee for shipping. My buyer always paid for the cost of shipping label + 14% final fee, and this was all easy to figure out with PayPal collecting payments from buyers. Now I can't even find what a buyer pays for shipping anymore. So I just work with the cost of my sold item, - shipping label cost and payment released to me. These 3 numbers represent the actual result. It = 13.5% loss MINIMUM. If you are a very smart savvy shipper, you're buyer should be paying for the label plus all the fees, and the ebay discount on your label, should start to lower the 10% cost on item. This is all very tricky to figure out now, but I don';t even want to get into the fact they charge you a fee on the buyer paying sales tax. eBay has figured out a way to scrape that 2.5% that I was getting, and putting it right into their coffers! BRAVO eBay, no wonder investors love you! What is good for the stock price is usually not good for anyone else! It is what it is. It would have been better to say UP FRONT; "when you switch to managed payments; your fees will go up 2.5%, and it would be wise to buy eBay stock: ticker symbol EBAY. As our revenues and gross profit just increased from 10% to 12.5% at the minimum! GL as a seller!
