With the current system I don't think there is even a breakdown of promoted listing fees from final value fees so you have a hard time knowing which orders sold via promoting listings and how much you paid for promoting listings for that order. Promoted listing fee if applicable (dollar amount and percentage promoted fee paid)
30įinal value fee on international sale if applicable (dollar amount and 1.65%)įinal value fee on taxes (dollar amount and percentage for that customers state) This would be for my fashion category and eBay store level.įinal value fee for category (dollar amount and 9% fashion final value fee)įinal value fee transaction charge and processing fee 2.7%, dollar amount and flat service charge of. When they should look like this with each fee itemized. Instead of one grouped "final value fee".įor example current fees looks like this: I very much dislike the way final value fees are stated on the customer order details.
DOES PAYPAL CHARGE A FEE TO BUY ON EBAY FOR FREE
In my opinion, eBay should focus on promoting listings of its top rated sellers for free as a benefit for top performers. I have found myself working harder and harder for less margin.
Or spend my time filling the gaps in eBay and find merchandise no sellers or few sellers have and became ranked in those categories of items. Yes, you do get more sales but why make less money just to sell something faster? I'd rather get top dollar for my merchandise as its getting harder and harder to source that merchandise these days. I have used the promoted listing tool but have since stopped my participation with that. The implementation of the promoting listing tool is not good for eBay sellers. 30 transaction fee and the normal final value fee for your category which for fashion with my eBay store is 9%. Managed payment sellers now pay a flat rate international final value fee of 1.65% on top of the. 30 per transaction fee easily topping Paypal fees by 1-2% on average. Paying a final value fee on sales taxes means that I will easily pay an additional $5,000-$10,000 a year in final value fees a 5-10% increase. Several southern states have very high sales taxes over 9%. Due to the final value fees on the tax your total percentage can vary greatly depending on the state you sold that item too. Stating "most sellers" will see a savings with managed payments is false advertising in my opinion, I do not know anyone who is seeing a savings, the final value fee now includes the total purchase price which is cost of the item, shipping paid and taxes. The eBay / Paypal relationship went out in blowout fashion with Paypal keeping all cancelled / returned item processing fees costing me thousands in a short period of time. Not a big deal, but when 95% of those cases are incorrectly filed by a customer (for example calling an item "not authentic" when I purchased it directly from the retailer myself is ludacris). I have always been in the top tier of the metric structure but there have been cases where during my peak season I may be near a category cutoff. Increasing metrics and eliminating benefits / discounts if strict metrics are not met. If you use promoted listings which I will talk more about below it is significantly higher. I was paying eBay 7.2% in final value fees when I started my business. Here are some of the things I have noticed eBay doing to there Top Rated Sellers.Įliminating 20% final value fee discounts (First it was reduced to 10% then only given to sellers who offered free returns, personally free returns does not increase traffic for me, my buyers prefer a lower price over free returns). I have seen nearly an increase of 25-50% in eBay listing fees over that period of time. I am a one man operation fashion powerseller having sold over 65,000 items the past 6 years.
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