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eBay is making roughly 23 percent of my bottom line. I can remember when that was closer to 15 percent.
I looked at your Sold items and noticed that 120 or so were priced below what I would consider a profitable price point.
My opinion, and YMMV, is that it is not worth selling anything for less than $10 unless you are likely to sell multiple items in each order.
And one reason is that eBay fees include a non-refundable 30c service charge. If you are selling Books and Magazines, your Store FVF is 14.6% on the entire payment, including shipping and the buyer's sales tax.
So, yes, you are likely paying 20% or more of your selling price on those items. The higher priced items, and you seem to sell more over $10 than under, should have lower FVF as a percentage , simply because it costs the same to ship a one pound item whether it sells for $5 or $500.
And of course, Promoted Listings are an expensive option that raises our FVF, again for the purchase, the shipping and the sales tax. But they are an option.
The sneaky part of PL, to me, is that if you use PL in August, and don't in September, then sell the formerly Promoted item in September, you will still be charged the added PL rate for that sale. It does go dark until October. Sheesh.
