mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@johnrj1226 wrote:One more thing, PayPal recently (aroudn the first of the year???) increased their processing fees from 2.9% + 30 cents to 3.45% + 30 cent. This doesn't affect eBay seller now as the eBay & PayPal divorce is now finalized. The sent out an e-mail notification to anyone with an PP account - debit or credit. I read the e-mail.
It pays to read - so their are no surprises.
Actually the PP fees are up to 2.89% plus a .49 per transaction fee now.
" However the price of that fee is not tacked on to the state sales tax." You keep missing what EVERYONE is telling you. CCCs do charge their fees on the ENTIRE amount received regardless of what the money was for. They do NOT care if it is for Sales Tax or merchandise, you charge it to the card, they will charge the fee to the merchant.
"It's no where on my receipts from Walmart or any other store. " Of course NOT. Walmart doesn't have to tell you what they pay their vendors anymore than any other company has to. They don't have to tell you their negotiated rates with CCC. You won't find these fees stated on ANY of your receipts from ANY B&M or Restaurant. That does not mean the merchant wasn't charged fees.
"The tax fee isn't a transaction or processing fee. The tax fee is charged as if it's part of the item I sold. " What difference does that make? How is the distinction between those two statements even important much less relevant? YES the FVF is charged on the ENTIRE amount the buyer pays with or without sales tax. Whatever the buyer pays is the amount the FVF will be charged on without exception.
"I know That's the processing fee because it's not taxed and has nothing to do with what I sold. It has to do with ebays merchant fee with the banks." Not that it is important, prove it. You want everyone else to back up what they state, then you back up yours. And why does it matter? As far as I know Ebay has never publicly published their contracts between them and the various CCCs. But that only means I was never able to find them. You must have found them to know this, so please provide the links.
"You people continue to be happy paying the extreme high fees. " I and others have told you repeatedly that we do not like the FVF being charged on the sales tax, not the full FVF. But you ignore that consistently as you want it to seem as if you are the only one that sees the truth or sees the reality of the fees Ebay charges for some reason. Your inability to acknowledge this information does not prove that to be true at all. What it does prove is you only want to listen to yourself.
"I just sold 2 items today. After the fees and everything out of pocket I might get 60% of the money I actually sold the items for. " There is NO category on Ebay that charges a 40% fee. So you are attributing something to Ebay that is inaccurate and certainly misleading. But if you also took your price of the product out, a 60% profit is certainly nothing to cry over, it is to be celebrated. Or you are simply being unrealistic about things around here.
With all the information shared to you on this thread, it is puzzling you are still holding this argument so dear. Either you aren't listening to anyone but yourself or you are doing this for entertainment. Wasting the time of people that come here to actually HELP others.
@lf32_54 wrote:eBay will charge 10% of the selling price of any item you successfully sell, including postage, and if your buyer pays via PayPal you will pay extra, so make sure ۔ Check out our eBay Sailing Trucks Guide for more tips.
What?? This is NOT TRUE. Sellers on Ebay do NOT pay more fees when a buyer pays via Paypal. We pay ONE fee to Ebay PERIOD. And it is NOT 10%. For most categories and sellers without a store it is 12.9%
I'm not sure where you got your information but it is incorrect.
