04-30-2013 09:58 AM
Am I the only one that is concerned with ebay's recent increase in final value fees? Ebay is making it hard to make even a small profit off items sold!
04-26-2015 04:57 PM
04-26-2015 05:29 PM
04-27-2015 07:54 AM
took all my profit 10% are they out of their mind I'm done never selling my stuff there again
04-30-2015 09:23 PM
And that's 10% on the sale price and another 10% on the shipping. I sell things for 6 to 8 bucks and the shipping is usually around 6 dollars as well. Add the insertion fees and paypal fees to that and you are looking at about 20% all together as you don't keep a dime of shipping costs. I've sold about 500.00 this month and my ebay fees (not counting paypal fees) are almost 150 and that's with a bunch of free listings. I'm fortunate that I'm still making profit but it's a lot of work for very little money. Now that we only get 20 free listings that .30 cents really adds up. On clothing the sell through rate on ebay is only 10 to 15% .. so I'm paying huge on things that won't even sell.
04-30-2015 10:08 PM
Alibaba and Taobao will replace ebay in the future. Because the basic business is totally free!!
05-03-2015 05:50 PM
05-04-2015 10:50 AM
05-04-2015 10:52 AM
05-05-2015 09:48 AM
Just sold 1 item on ebay for $495 after not needing to in a while. Used the "FREE" listing and ended up having paypal nab $14.66 off the top leaving me $480.34. Then out of convienience and appreciation for the sell, I used the specialy overpriced shipping ebay offers through UPS to send the item out. $27.17 for ground shipping leaving me $453.17. Thought I was doing okay losing $41.83 for the item until I got an email notifying me of ebay's "USE FEE"
$49.50! 10% of the Buy It Now cost!! Leaves me with $403.67 for an item that went for $495.00
$91.33 to sell and ship a GoPro camera!! **bleep** ebay!?!? I am done selling on ebay. Never again and I wish there was a way to dispute their "USE FEE" and shove it right between the crack between ebay and paypal.
05-05-2015 07:26 PM
Sadly, ebay has become nothing but a rip off. It is a lot of work to get things listed, sold, packaged and shipped. Then to have to pay them the exhorbitant fees plus Pay Pal. It just isn't worth it anymore. they are a bunch of thieves. Venture capitalists is what I think they call themselves.
05-05-2015 09:07 PM
05-05-2015 09:09 PM
05-06-2015 05:49 AM
The final value fee of 10 percent is too high! The final value fee on shipping is ridiculous!
My item sold for 640.00 + 70.00 shipping = 710.00
- 20.89 Paypal fee
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689.11
-145.00 Actual Shipping
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544.11
- 64.00 Ebay Final value Fee
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480.11
- 7.00 Ebay final value fee on Shipping
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473.11
- .30 Ebay Listing Fee
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472.81
05-07-2015 03:58 PM
05-07-2015 05:56 PM
We are but 350 people in a sea of hundreds of thousands......I can gaurantee you that Ebay cares not one little bit!