Selling Fees

[magz7]

Ebay's selling fees are getting completely ridiculous! Check out, in your summary, what you sold items for and what you actually ended up with after FEES! Was it worth all of your hard work?

[coolections]

@susanb1872   Same price:

$80 item + $23 shipping = $103

$103 item + free shipping = $103 

Where is the savings?

[lamber9347]

Absolutely worth it to me personally. (A) I don't consider selling online to be 'hard work' and making several hundred a month while still wearing my pj's is perfectly fine by me. (B) I only sell items which I either paid very little for or they are items I would sell for a couple of bucks in person at a yard sale. So, I make plenty after my fees are paid....

[coolections]

@yuzuha   You left out a lot of info. With what you described you gave FREE shipping. How much did you pay out of pocket to ship that item?

[soh.maryl]

The fee schedule is not hidden from anyone.  You can check it out before listing.  

[sapphire_studio]

It's not standard practice to count the shipping cost as an eBay fee.

[soh.maryl]

Seems like a pretty high percentage fee when the final value fee is actually calculated on only the item price, the shipping cost and the state sales tax, if applicable, and is, in most categories, 12.9%.

Are you perhaps including something in your fee calculations that does not belong there?  

[yuzuha]

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@coolections wrote:

@yuzuha   You left out a lot of info. With what you described you gave FREE shipping. How much did you pay out of pocket to ship that item?

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I didn't do free shipping-- it was calculated shipping, so the buyer paid the entire shipping cost. That's why I said "$30 + shipping." You can see for yourself (it was the Hatsune Miku Sweet Sweets Matcha Parfait figure).

I never use free shipping because that would discourage people from nearby states from buying if I rolled the cost of shipping the item to zone 8 into my prices when it costs $3 or so less to ship it to any nearby states.

[coolections]

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@sapphire_studio wrote:

It's not standard practice to count the shipping cost as an eBay fee.

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Why, they DO charge on shipping. Did you not know that? Not sure why people want to turn a blind eye on something they are being charged for. Go ahead and believe when you sell that $100 item and after fees and shipping you receive $59.

[heckofagame]

Prove that 26%. And don't include shipping costs as they are not a fee. 

[sapphire_studio]

When you sell an item a chunk goes to eBay, a chunk goes to the post office, a chunk goes to the government (in most states) and a chunk goes to you. 

Ebay fees are commonly understood to be the chunk that goes to eBay (you seem to be defining it as all the chunks that don't go to you).

[coolections]

Wow.... OK, I will spell it out for you.

An item valued at $80 that is heavy.

You list that $80 item for $47.00 + $33.00 shipping.

Buyer pays $80

Post office gets $33.00

Ebay gets $10.30 + 30 cents= $10.60

 $47.00 list price

-$10.60 fees

$36.40 profit  (22.5% fees)

[southern*sweet*tea]

You have fees, and you have expenses.

Shipping is an expense, not a fee.  Fees and expenses COMBINED can very well be over 30% depending on shipping costs.  FEES will NEVER be that high, unless one is foolish enough to use promoted listings at a high percentage rate.

[johnrj1226]

It is always best to determine your selling costs and expected profit margin and then determine if you selling would be at least equal to the middle range of the market price of the same or similar item before you list an item and then decide if you should sell it on eBay.  Yep selling is not easy.

[sapphire_studio]

Here is an online fee calculator using your example. You dont subtract out the shipping that they pay when you calculate your fees. You are calculating how much ebay takes out in relation to your profit, not in relation to what the buyer paid you in total (even though yes you have an expense to ship that item).

 

[yuzuha]

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

You have fees, and you have expenses.

Shipping is an expense, not a fee.  Fees and expenses COMBINED can very well be over 30% depending on shipping costs. 

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This is precisely why I don't sell anything that weighs more than 3-4 lbs  or that would go over the dimensional weight threshold here-- because the shipping eats up a huge chunk of the profit. All of my bulky/heavy stuff gets sold locally on Craigslist where neither the buyer nor I need to worry about the logistics of shipping it.