usedto
Lunatic Member
I was taught,
You must use a different ebay and paypal than me. 9% for ebay, 2.9% + 30 cents for paypal. With the math I was taught, that's not damn close to 20%
I know one thing, I will NOT be selling on FEEbay again
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You must use a different ebay and paypal than me. 9% for ebay, 2.9% + 30 cents for paypal. With the math I was taught, that's not damn close to 20%
Champco
Super Member
Man Im sorry for you but all is not lost. You CAN find the phone number and they will give you a call back. Be nice. Poor stupid me did not understand and wish for a do-over. This is my first sale and I have a lot of stuff to sell so can you see your way to negate the charges?? Be Nice. They probably will at least negate some of it. be nice..
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
You were taught? Hmmm, experience is a better teacher. I just looked at my last invoice and compared it to my gross sales.
usedto
Lunatic Member
The "I was taught" is a keyboard error with this crappy notebook I use in the house. I'll give more accurate info when I get in my office tomorrow.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
I bought and sold during the Meg Whitman era, which is widely acknowledged to be the golden era of ebay. The experience has gotten progressively worse since. The near 20% figure are the explicit costs. There is also the cost of returns which ebay almost always approves.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
I average about $1,000 a month in sales and pay about $175 in fees. Paypal is another 4%. There is no need to prove anyone right or wrong. It is what it is.
beat_truck
Addicted Member
Man, I don't know if $46 is worth pretending to be nice and playing phone tag/being on hold indefinitely.
Since it was already automatically taken out of my Paypal, I'll probably just let it go as an expensive lesson.beat_truck
Addicted Member
I haven't sold anything on ebay for many years, so I was a little behind on how things were handled.
And I completely disagree with the buyer being able to back out of the deal for pretty much whatever BS reason they wish and then the seller having to eat the cost. I will not deal with that nonsense. Between that and the fees, I can see why so many people have decided to quit selling on there.
blhagstrom
Mad Scientist, fixer.
It must have been the reserve price thing.
It’s been forever since I did an auction with a reserve price.
I list hundreds of items a month.
10 accounts just for free listing amounts and insurance against Ebay retard that limit the account if crap buyers screw up an account.
Last I looked.
Ebay is 10%
PayPal is 0.30+3%
Listing fees extra once I go past monthly free limit.
I pretty much do only BIN and pad for fees and pad weight on shipping because they take the 10% off the total. Same for PayPal, off total.
People played games with $1 sales and high shipping to avoid fees. Slime ruined Ebay.
Buyer always right has made Ebay a pain once in a while. Some buyers are just impossible.
Since I pretty much only sell trash, it’s all profit and good. I can eat a bad sale once in a while.
The good stuff sells with little hassle.
I just set my price high.
It keeps the riff raff out.
Riff raff tend to be really cheap bastards.
The kind that bitch if you hang them with a new rope.
It’s been forever since I did an auction with a reserve price.
I list hundreds of items a month.
10 accounts just for free listing amounts and insurance against Ebay retard that limit the account if crap buyers screw up an account.
Last I looked.
Ebay is 10%
PayPal is 0.30+3%
Listing fees extra once I go past monthly free limit.
I pretty much do only BIN and pad for fees and pad weight on shipping because they take the 10% off the total. Same for PayPal, off total.
People played games with $1 sales and high shipping to avoid fees. Slime ruined Ebay.
Buyer always right has made Ebay a pain once in a while. Some buyers are just impossible.
Since I pretty much only sell trash, it’s all profit and good. I can eat a bad sale once in a while.
The good stuff sells with little hassle.
I just set my price high.
It keeps the riff raff out.
Riff raff tend to be really cheap bastards.
The kind that bitch if you hang them with a new rope.
beat_truck
Addicted Member
He didn't know the price before he bought them?
People are morons.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
A re-seller bought one of my items and claimed he could not re-sell the item for a profit and opened a return. He posted blurry pictures of my item (my photos are crystal clear.) I am contesting this and expect to lose. Here is the kicker. While the case is open, my items lose visibility and my sales go to zero. I've trolled the ebay community forums and a lot of sellers report the same thing. So, 20% fees and this non-sense are beyond stupid. I give ebay/paypal about $200 a month and they treat me like this? If a viable competitor emerges, I will jump ship and never look back.
www.records
Quality over Quantity
I gave up on eBay a long time ago and have never looked back. I do drop my pants and moon them once in a while.
usedto
Lunatic Member
I believe that eBay motors is a special case where there's a fee just for listing.
I believe AutoTrader etc have the same deal.
I believe AutoTrader etc have the same deal.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
For first six months, 2017
Sales: 9085.15
Fees: 1182.69
That's 13.0%.
This does not factor in the cost of returns. (You pay return shipment fees and eat original shipment cost.)
This does not factor adjustments requests. Don't get them often but I would rather adjust than face a return that I will lose.
This does not include paypal.
My costs are at least 17%.
No, I am not a stockholder or a shill.
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Champco
Super Member
You are forgetting something. The ultimate insult. You get to pay a percentage of the shipping as a fee, the buyer pays for the shipping.
Champco
Super Member
That's "kick" if you hang em with a new rope.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
When Meg was in charge, ebay was still a campy and dare I say a trendy site. It was exciting to buy and sell. (In fairness to today's ebay, buying is still fine because you are in control but selling is a mess.) The fees were not unreasonable, the feedback rules were evenly weighted, and ebay rarely if ever intervened. When Donahoe took over, his first statement was something along the "maximizing shareholder value" line. It has been downhill since.
Champco
Super Member
Reminds me of a sale a few years ago. i got free at the state fair a promo car from the GM tent. I figured it would probably fetch $20-30 on ebay. This in early 2000.
I put it up for auction and it sits at it's original price of about $6.00. Some guy snagges it at the close and I sent it to him right? Few weeks later doing some feedback I look at his account and he had sold it for $80.00. grrrrr. Luck him..
