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I am very confused about shipping costs.  I sold a dress for $59.99.  The offer said $59.99 + shipping $9.80.  The buyer was to pay the shipping.  In order to ship the dress, I needed to purchase a shipping label for $8.05.  The amount I received from eBay was a total of $53.25.  eBay shows $61.30 -$8.05 shipping label = $53.25.  Why am I getting charged for shipping?  Will ebay reimburse me for the $8.05?  

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     You are not actually getting charged for shipping although you do pay FVF's on the shipping cost. You apparently purchased the label through eBay which a lot of sellers do but the buyer had already paid you $9.80 for the shipping costs so in reality you made a little extra on the shipping difference since there was a $1.75 difference between what you were paid by the buyer and what you paid for the label. 

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Because your buyer paid for the shipping . The cost of shipping comes out of the funds you received for the sale. Your buyer paid you to ship then you pay the shipper to ship with the funds the buyer has paid. 
Don’t forget the fees for making the sale also came out of the buyers payment as well before you got it. 

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Before going any further with your eBay sales career, may I respectfully suggest that you do a little more reading about how buyers pay and about how shipping fees are deducted? 

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Before going any further with your eBay sales career, may I respectfully suggest that you do a little more reading about how buyers pay and about how shipping fees are deducted? 

 

     Always sound advice. 😀 OP may also want to develop a cost/pricing model if they are looking to make a profit from their selling activities. A starting point is to look at the eBay associated selling cost as you eluded to. Then there is the expanded model that factors in all the non-eBay associated selling costs. Things like COGS, shipping supplies, operating expenses, income taxes............  Sample of simple eBay cost model for the item the OP sold. I was not sure which state the buyer was in or the sales tax rate so I simply used the state I live in. 

 

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I am having the same problem.. sold an item for $20.. the buyer paid shipping, and i ended up only receiving a payout of $6.25.. I called Ebay yesterday, was on the phone almost 2 hours and got no help.  I'm taking all my listing down.. no sense in selling and not getting paid anything.. this has happened with 3 of my sales.  

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     You are missing some details on your item but I will assume this is the Undeclared - The Complete Series (DVD, 2005, 4-Disc Set). I don't know what state the buyer was in so I use my state tax rate, I also don't know what your actual shipping cost so I assumed it was the same as the $3.95 it shows that I would have paid had I bought it. When I plug  those figures into a cost model I get the following so something is off. Did you promote the listing, was the actual shipping more than what the buyer paid you? Look at the order and the "view transaction details" and see what the actual costs were pertaining to the transaction. Understanding cost before you list is key to making a profit or realizing a decent ROI. 

     Don't forget also that there are other expenses unrelated to what eBay costs are. There are cost of goods sold, packing materials, POV mileage........... 

 

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Why am I getting charged for shipping?  Will ebay reimburse me for the $8.05?  

 

@naturalgrey 

 

You are being charged for shipping because you purchased a label here. No, eBay won't reimburse you... you were fronted the funds when the buyer paid the shipping cost in your listing. It's all good.

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@valentine2290 

 

go to the sellers hub>

 

Hover on "payments">

 

Click on "payouts>

 

A page will open with your "payouts">

 

Click on one of them to see what "charges" were included in that "payout".

 

There may be charges for labels purchased for sales that had not yet been processed.  Labels charge immediately. Buyer payment takes time to be available.

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@naturalgrey 

 

Others have stated it, but to make it very clear.  The buyer paid YOU for the shipping. That's how it works on eBay. Seems there is another site where the buyers pay the site which can cause confusion when coming to eBay to sell.

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@naturalgrey wrote:

I am very confused about shipping costs.  I sold a dress for $59.99.  The offer said $59.99 + shipping $9.80.  The buyer was to pay the shipping.  In order to ship the dress, I needed to purchase a shipping label for $8.05.  The amount I received from eBay was a total of $53.25.  eBay shows $61.30 -$8.05 shipping label = $53.25.  Why am I getting charged for shipping?  Will ebay reimburse me for the $8.05?  


Looks like your numbers are fine - Keep in Mind, the buyer paid the shipping cost up front - The money you are getting back is minus the fees you are being charged on the TOTAL PRICE of the sale - Many people believe they are paying 13.25% of the items price when in fact it is a percentage of the total sale.

 

Quick breakdown:   59.99(Item selling Price) + 9.80(Shipping) + 5.23(7.5% Sales Tax) = $75.03 (Total Sale).

13.25% of 75.03 is 9.94(final Value Fee) +.30 (Transaction fee) = $10.24( total fees) (17.06% of the Items Sale Price) - Since ebay pays the sales tax for you and you never even see it,  what you get back in this scenario is 69.79(selling price+shipping) - 10.24(Total Fees)= 59.55 (payout). Now you have to pay for shipping which is included in the payout sent to you:  59.55(payout) - 8.05(shipping) = 51.50 (net after fees and shipping).

 

Since you did profit $1.75 in shipping, the percentage you effectively ended up paying is 14.15% of the item selling price, not the 17.06% shown above if you were to break even on the shipping. This is very much inline with the "effective rate" @dbfolks166mt  shows in the breakdown they presented - the only difference being I used a tax rate of 7.5% as opposed to their 6% and yours is likely different than ours. Click the drop-down list next to your order and click on "view payment details" to see the specific numbers you were charged and it will stand in relation to what you are seeing in these posts.

 

But as you can see, you will be paying more than 13.25% in fees off the top of your items selling price. Hopefully this convoluted example clears things up for you - Cheers

 

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