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@mattiemaes wrote:Does anyone else question the new fee structure?
1) charging 30 cents final on all sales, I thought I got free listings?The .30 cents per ORDER fee is for sold items. This is same fee that paypal charged in addition to their 2.9%
2) charging final fee % on taxes collected? This is not me making money?
I am not a fan of being charged 12.35% on the sales tax that is collected and remited. However payment processors do charge their fees on the total amount that they process. Paypal charged their 2.9% on the sales tax too.
3) need to link to checking now -PayPal provided me an account and I could transfer in and out if needed.
This might take a bit of getting used to but I am not too worried about it. My money will go into the ebay Manged Payments account then I will choose to have to have payouts once a week. You can choose daily if you prefer. The delay in the funds reaching your bank account is because of processing times by the credit cards and banks. If you use a major chain bank I have heard that funds are available sooner.
4) charging final value on shipping fees - have been. This is because some users are overcharging on shipping and eBay did not want to lose their fees on that profit - even though we honest shippers now get gouged trying to be fair with shipping.
This is how final value fees worked since 2008. When ebay went to the flat fees of 10% that we currently have that actually reduced the selling fee % for lower priced items. If memory serves that is also when they started the 50 free listings a month.
With COVID I really don’t want to open another checking for ebays convenience. Somehow the charts don’t reflect my store cost and shipping supplies and time? Maybe this hobby is becoming too expensive,
Ebay can't know what your shipping supplies cost so they can't factor that into the sales reports. You have to crunch your own numbers and see if the bottom line makes sense for you to keep selling on ebay or not.
dissappointed. And they call it a customer service initiative?
am I juSt missing something here?
@gmckee3 wrote:If you are a community volunteer you have to try to be credible.
The .30 cents per ORDER fee is for sold items. This is same fee that paypal charged in addition to their 2.9%
Its not true. Paypal charged for the transection when money exchanged hands. Ebay charges even the sale is canceled.
However payment processors do charge their fees on the total amount that they process. Paypal charged their 2.9% on the sales tax too.
Another not true and against the law.
I don't know what "ebay community volunteer", but to defend ebay's idiotic decisions must be profitable.
Let me give you another one to defend:
When a seller gives a buyer a bad feedback to try preventing another seller headache, ebay count the feedback a positive, because there is no negative option. So unless you actually read every feedback for every buyer, you will never know if somebody using the system
@gmckee3 It is correct that Paypal charged their transaction fee when the payment has occurred vs ebay's .30 cents when the transaction takes place even though there is NOT yet a payment.
However, PayPal's fee of .30 cents was nonrefundable no matter how soon you canceled the sale if the buyer paid. Since PayPal stopped refunding their 2.9% too this makes a full order cancelation with MP actually better if you have to refund a buyer for a returned item OR cancel a sale as buyer requested.
Neither eBay or PayPal refunded fees though for partial refunds. So if you have to make a partial refund you still do not get your fees back.
I am sorry to say that I am correct that PayPal did charge their fees on the sales tax since November of last year when eBay stopped collecting the sales tax as a separate payment from buyers.
It is NOT illegal for a payment processor to charge fees on the sales tax. Do I like it, NO.
When the market place sales law first started the buyer would see a charge for payment that went to the buyer and a separate charge for the sales tax that ebay collected and remitted.
@gmckee3 wrote:Ebay don't refund the fee even when buyer cancel the sale BEFORE he paid. How is it better? I refuse all cancellation, let ebay deal with buyers:)
I'm working with my lawyer on fee on taxes, we will see.
Ebay used to refund their 10% if a buyer paid before a sale is canceled. Paypal did not refund THEIR fees even on refund request cases filed for returns or INR's
I know that MP refunds 100% of the fees ( less the .30 cents) when a buyer requests to cancel because I had a $98 sale right after MP started where a buyer requested to cancel. This saved me the nonrefundable PayPal fees that I would not have been refunded before.
I personally cancel when a buyer requests to do so because of eBay's lenient not as described refund request policy. A buyer that you refuse to cancel the order for can turn around and SAY an item is not as described and you MUST pay return shipping and refund the buyer.
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When a seller gives a buyer a bad feedback to try preventing another seller headache, ebay count the feedback a positive, because there is no negative option. So unless you actually read every feedback for every buyer, you will never know if somebody using the system "
Feedback is not a MP issue which is why I didn't mention it before. Leaving a NEGATIVE comment in a POSITIVE for a buyer is a violation of policy. The buyer can report the seller and have it removed.
Ebay USED to allow negative for buyers but what happened was a the buyer that received negative feedback just turned around and left negative feedback for the seller.
Personally I'd like to see buyers stop receiving ANY feedback as it's pointless.
Even back when a buyer received negative feedback that did not stop them from making a last minute purchase on an auction OR a buy it now so you had no time to review the buyers feedback.
