eBay

magz7 · ‎02-02-2023

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?

janet9988 · ‎02-02-2023

@coolections wrote:
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)

There is your mistake. Why would you list an item valued at 80.00 for only $47.00 ????????

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sapphire_studio · ‎02-02-2023

I can mail a 12"x12"x12" box up to 20 lb using pirate ship cubic parcel ground for $13 to California from Oregon (prob goes up to $16 to get it to NY)

buyselljack2016 · ‎02-02-2023

I have checked it out, and for the most part I am generally pleased. When I am not pleased it is likely my fault for an error purchasing the item to resell.

I have an example of that right now. I have a handful of items where I failed to watch the market trend, and they are now selling for less than 1/2 of what I was getting for them.

buyselljack2016 · ‎02-02-2023

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

But it is standard practice for some to continually twist the "cost of selling" into a fee thing 🙂

m60driver · ‎02-02-2023

@yuzuha wrote:
Exactly. I don't understand why so many sellers choose to offer free shipping and then proceed to complain about it. Just use calculated shipping instead.

I offer "free shipping" but I have a darn good idea of how much shipping will be and embed it into the price. By offering "free shipping" I also eliminate the less intelligent buyers on Ebay who can't do really basic math, and that is offset by Ebay who will give my listings a small advantage. I only use calculated shipping on heavy items where the cost differences will be significant between different buyer locations.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-02-2023

@m60driver wrote: ... I offer "free shipping" but I have a darn good idea of how much shipping will be and embed it into the price.... I only use calculated shipping on heavy items where the cost differences will be significant between different buyer locations.

As postage prices increase that weight threshold becomes lower and lower. At current prices, the online Priority Mail postage cost for a 3-pound package ranges from $8.42 to $18.45.

buyselljack2016 · ‎02-02-2023

My things don't sell locally, so on the rare occasion that dim-weight will come into play the asking price is bumped a bit to cover my "'additional fees" on that "additional shipping".

ms.rodriguez* · ‎02-02-2023

You are doing it wrong. I can tell that since 1998, I have never paid for shipping a box to my customers. They pay for the shipping, not me. You are a fool if you did not add that 19 dollar shipping fee to the cost of the item or had it for 19.00 shipping. Don't blame ebay for that foolishness. Sellers NEED to figure out the fees before the list an item and then make sure that the starting price will cover ALL of the fees. Always assume that for shipping, your buyer will be in the farthest state. This way, you don't loose money on the shipping.

monica-sells · ‎02-02-2023

Your example shows exacly why selling high shipping cost items with mediocre sale prices is definitely not the margin you would want to be making......

The example is misleading on one line:

"...An item valued at $80 that is heavy..."

The "value" of the item is NOT 80.00, it is 47.00.....

hypothetically, if you had a 47.00 item with 5.00 shipping your FVF would be appx $7.00 (appx 13.5%) so

your calculation is correct....

for the OP original question I think every platform charges for the total of item + shipping........

(some do it in a different way though)

punkiesplayhousellc · ‎02-02-2023

Im used to multiple fees but the one that shocked me was being charged $0.70 because the buyer was located in China but has a US receive address. I thought that was ridiculous. That made no sense to me at all.

stainlessenginecovers · ‎02-02-2023

@coolections wrote:
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)

Why is the post office getting $33 if you are charging $33 for shipping??

$33 shipping means the label should cost about $25

($33 minus $2 for packaging material, $5 for Final Value Fees; $1 shipping cost savings (retail vs. ebay).

If you are charging $33 shipping for something that cost $33 for the label, then you are either charging incorrectly or have that difference buried in the 'price of the item'.

punkiesplayhousellc · ‎02-02-2023

Where is the link for ebay marketplace ? I keep hearing about it but can't find it

susanb1872 · ‎02-02-2023

@coolections

Is the OP actually adding the cost of shipping to the product price? And if yes, how much? Where you can really lose money on free shipping is if you live on the east coast and have to ship to the west coast. Big difference in costs. That's why I never do free shipping since I don't know who will buy it.

yuzuha · ‎02-02-2023

@susanb1872 wrote:
Where you can really lose money on free shipping is if you live on the east coast and have to ship to the west coast. Big difference in costs. That's why I never do free shipping since I don't know who will buy it.

Exactly. Free shipping may be fine and dandy if you live in the middle of the country where you're never shipping any further than to zone 4. It really doesn't work if you live on the coast and a large portion of your sales could potentially go to zone 8.

jahood1984 · ‎02-02-2023

I do free shipping on everything and if I can't ship it first class I choose economy shipping while noting in the listings It will likely be UPS or FedEx ground/home possibly USPS depending area, that I ship the fastest but cheapest method.

Before I list something I search it and list it cheaper than the cheapest one at the time. I have to much inventory to try and sell by our pricing other people and sitting on it forever. Losing region a and b shipping sting quite a bit but the economy option helps prevent crazy high shipping cost. If I price my item the same as someone else and charge shipping while they don't, it's more expensive and sits forever. I'm trying to sell stuff and not sit on it.

Marketplace has a great range of buyers at a fraction of the fees, Ive moved alot there and what I have moved has made quite a bit more. Still eBay has an audience for some items that noone else does, I just wish if the continually ramp up our fees (last year it was the international fee that buyers should pay, not sellers) that they are least alluded to pretend sellers were getting a bit more protection. I sold a lot on MP last year and didn't have a single return, chargeback or any type of attempted scam after the sell. As a matter of fact they canceled several sells and automatically relisted it when buyers looked shady to them for whatever reason, perhaps that's why it worked out so well.