Over the last 6 months I have really dived into these discussion boards reviewing EBAY fees, increases and whatever. I want to present a hypothetical situation which some of the result applies to all of us. One note, I had this discussion with a friend and from past experience. Let's say a person purchases an abandoned storage unit every month. Your costs were to purchase is $400/month. Thats $4800/yr. So, let's say you donate roughly half of the storage unit to goodwill, the other half you sell on a platform and lastly you have rented a storage unit for $125/month to house your items that you purchased. Tax implications, you have a LLC it's a business. Tax write-offs include the storage unit u rented, any use of your car to and from a facility to ship your products, pick up supplies, maybe you rented a U-Haul or used your car to pick up your items, and the list goes on. So, my final statement is, does a .35% increase in seller fees on a platform really play into the overall numbers? No, in this case it does not. In other case's maybe so but I doubt it. What we sometimes forget is all the extras that can be applied to our taxes that we are not accounting into the equation. I am sure some people will contradict me but so be it. I know the numbers based on this situation.
mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
