What am I missing here? I sold a paperweight for $ 4.99

[divwido]

I search for the fees for this $ 4.99 paperweight and the fees shown are $ 1.97.   That's what eBay shows.

How?

[katzrul15]

What is the shipping and tax?  Where is it going?  Were you hit with the 1.65% international fee?

Under payments tab in Seller Hub, find this transaction.  It should break down all fees.

[divwido · Accepted solution]

I guess  that difference has to with the $ 9 billed shipping.  I think I would have been money ahead to throw it in the trash.

[nobody*s_perfect]

Remember, the FVF is a percentage of the total payment including shipping  and sales tax. So the final value fee would be 12.55% of $4.99 + the shipping cost + the sales tax based on the buyer's location

[simba6]

Yep. Low price items that cost much to ship are not worth listing here.  And, you also risk losing shipping if a SNAD is filed.   In some cases you can "bundle" such items into a lot and sell them that way.

[wastingtime101]

It doesn't matter how many times a day posts like this pop up. I am always surprised when someone with a long eBay selling history doesn't realize that fees are charged on the total amount of the sale.

[nocoolnamejane]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

It doesn't matter how many times a day posts like this pop up. I am always surprised when someone with a long eBay selling history doesn't realize that fees are charged on the total amount of the sale.

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Never mind from someone with over 25 000 posts on the community boards? 🤔

[powell-memorabilia]

He has to be goofing with us.  Dude sells a lot of low end items - no way he hasn’t seem this type of FVF before.

[fern*wood]

That's okay.  Most of us have brain fog once in awhile (or often) and you've been through a lot recently.