Ebay fees

neilwoods

Not sold on ebay for a while now. So am going to be listing s few items soon.

Question is about the final fees. Is it better to sell an item for £10 with free p&p for £1 fee. Or £6.99 with £2.99 p&p for 69p fee.

Just not sure if the p&p is included within the final fee or not.

starrybee

FVF's are taken from the sale price only, not postage.

However:
Putting your price of postage up to avoid fees is against ebay's t+cs.

Also buyers tend to prefer to see lower postage costs (even if the final amount is the same!) so you risk low stars or even low sales if you bump your postage up.

graspthenettle

Sorry, I don't do maths but if its any help -

FVFs are 10% and don't include p&p

Paypal fees do include p&p

Listing fees are cheaper for £9.99 than £10 which is why you will see all the .99s its not because we're trying to trick buyers - well, not all the time anyway.......

neilwoods

I know trying to avoid fee is against there t&c but 2.99 from 10 is hardly trying to avoid fees (not by much). Understandable if it was £0.01 and 9.99 postage.

40p here and there all adds up. I know everyone likes to see the word FREE when they buy something, but items i am going to sell are about 500grams to 2kg so postage will be in the range of £4 or £6 anyway

Crowqueen

Depends on how much it costs to post.

If you overcharge on postage - and buyers are very concerned about any discrepancy between postage price and stamp cost to you - then you will get marked down.

However free P&P will get you automatic 5* DSRs for P&P. I prefer to list this way for that reason. I don't mind paying fees because as a buyer I usually prefer to see postage included. I feel it is indicative of a seller who cares about paying more to reassure buyers somewhat they are not overcharging.

It's up to you, though. Just don't charge an 'arbitrary' amount for P&P (a first class small packet rate is £2.70, for example, £2.99 is even pushing it). Weigh the item in the packaging materials and charge exact stamp cost.

RFW

graspthenettle wrote: »

Listing fees are cheaper for £9.99 than £10 which is why you will see all the .99s its not because we're trying to trick buyers -.

There isn't a difference between listing at £9.99 and £10. The price changes are after 99p, £4.99, £14.99, £29.99 and £99.99.

You can also factor in that 'free' p&p is supposed to get your items higher up in searches.