I sold an item and it shows the buyer paid X for shipping. When I went
to generate the shipping label, the actual cost ended up being X-Y.
Where does that difference go? Does it go back to the buyer? Because it
didn't show as going in my payout.
It's .8745, not 8.745%. .8745 is 12.55%. But viewing these details is
enlightening. The 12.55% fee is charged on the entire total. Then ebay
subtracts that fee from item price + shipping. Not item price + shipping
+ tax as I would have thought. From ...
To take 12.55% off of a value (ebay's cut) you multiply by 0.8745.
That's where that came from. My math also gets me a payout of 787. My
payout was much less than that. That's what I don't understand.
Item was 800. Tax was 72. Shipping was 65. So total was 937. My actual
shipping cost ended up being 32 (ebay has a crazy good deal with UPS it
seems as the rest were double that). So if I do 937 * .8745 that's 819.
Subtract my actual shipping cost an...
I'm trying to use the words as they appear in "view order details" to
make myself clear, but it seems I am not being clear. In view order
details, "Order total" is item cost + shipping + taxes. Correct me if
I'm wrong, but this page
https://www.ebay....
