mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@toooldtorock wrote:"ebay charges you 2.7% and 25 cents for each item"
That doesn't sound right.
Unfortunately it is correct. If a buyer purchases a few items off of one of your listings, then the transaction fee remains 25 cents. But if the buyer purchases from several different listings, then they will be charging 25 cents PER listing transaction.
I have no idea why Ebay thinks this is a good idea other than it will make some serious money for them. There isn't ANY other money processor that even comes close to charging fees like this.
Ebay once bragged that it's payment process would save sellers money to a process that has higher fees than ANY other processing service out there for sellers that typically deal with buyers of multiple items.
@goodluckselling wrote:
@mvls1 wrote:I just received the offer to join managed payments today and carefully read the offer details. As the original poster has stated, you will be charged .25 per ITEM not per transaction! It is very specific in the offer details that the .25 applies for each item in the order.
If the buyer buys several from the same listing and or a variation listing you will only get a 0.25 fee for the single item number not each purchase.
It really should be looked at as per transaction per item number fee. Same item number purchases inside the same transaction will have the single 0.25 fee.
Good Luck Selling!
Yes you are absolutely correct. But for some sellers this is going to be a huge fee to contend with. At a minimum sellers will need to raise their pricing my at least 28 cents to cover the listing transaction fee and the selling fees since you need to raise your sales price. By itself, it doesn't at all look like much. But for sellers of low $$ items it is a huge issue.
For example. I use to sell a line of Barbie Doll Crochet and Plastic Canvas patterns. These patterns would average selling for under $2 each. It was often that I would get buyers of multiple items. So if I had a buyer purchase from 10 different listings, that would be $2.50 in transaction fees verses the current which is 30 cents. That is a 833% increase on the money processors transaction fee.
It has been a long time since I've had enough purchases by one buyer to fill an Ebay invoice, but last time I did, the invoice maxes out at 40 different items. That would be one hefty money processing transaction fee.
Certainly most sellers usually sell one offs. I can agree with that. But there are lots of sellers that multiple purchases are a regular thing for and something they promote. This fee is a detriment to that and just plain ridiculously high. Which is probably why NO OTHER site has any such fee.
@mvls1 wrote:Buyers purchase multiple items from different listings we have about 10% of the time. I think this can be a more common occurrence for sellers in certain categories, like seeds, postcards, slides, sports cards, flatware, dishes, glassware, clothing, cosmetics, etc., etc., etc. As this policy affects more sellers, I am sure it will become a hotter discussion topic.
You can add crafting categories and books to that. I sell craft books and supplies. I often get buyers purchasing from multiple different listings.
