Ebay Final Value Fees - help plz!

DebtClearer

I've just been billed £17 by ebay! I have looked at my list of fees and ebay have charged me £4 as a "final value fee" for a coat I sold as well as a £1 insertion fee. These types of fees are present through my invoice.

This seems a huge amount of money and with paypal deductions I'm left feeling much less happy about my sales. How much does ebay typically take off your sale?? Are the final value fees totals which also include the insertion fee etc?

Not happy!

steveE2

FVF are 10% of sale price

insertion fees vary depending on start price

£0.01 - £0.99 Free *

£1.00 - £4.99 £0.15

£5.00 - £14.99 £0.25

£15.00 - £29.99 £0.50

£30 - £99.99 £1.00

£100 or more £1.30

Then you have to add any picture charges etc

ulsterbeef

Ebay state how much you will be charged when you do a buy it now listing. They appear at the bottom of the page before you click list. If it was an auction it will not give an exact price.

Also, each category varies in amount they will charge as a fee so its impossible to tell you how much they charge.

As for insertion fee, did you add a load of pictures? If so, try HTML coding pictures. That is when eBay descriptions have pictures instead of in the pictures section. Its free, you can have larger pictures and have as many as you like and is allowed.

baffcat

Ebay are very upfront about the costs of selling on their platform.

If you were selling through a local paper, as almost all us old gits have in the past, you'd find out the cost before agreeing to insert the advert.

Why do people think it should be any different for selling on ebay? Didn't you look to see how much it was likely to cost? Didn't you think it'd be useful to know how much you'd pay if your items sold, or indeed even if they didn't?

It took me less than 10 seconds (on an exceedingly slow broadband line) to find this page Ebay fees.

It's galling to feel like a fool, isn't it? Been there, done that, but it's a good way to learn.

DebtClearer

Guess I had never really sold anything on ebay on any value until this week.

So these people selling cars....they are losing 10% of it? Then potentially even more money once paypal take their slice?

No_Eye_Deer

DebtClearer wrote: »

Guess I had never really sold anything on ebay on any value until this week.

So these people selling cars....they are losing 10% of it? Then potentially even more money once paypal take their slice?

No, motors have a max eBAy fees of £35.00, I believe.

The hard part is to run a business and pay tax as well. Thats another 20% of your profit

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techspec

A good guide is around 15% with paypal.

But how much would you have got before Ebay?

Unless your a car booter - NOTHING!

(if you are a car booter - ALMOST NOTHING :rotfl:)

GamerInfo

No_Eye_Deer wrote: »

No, motors have a max eBAy fees of £35.00, I believe.

The hard part is to run a business and pay tax as well. Thats another 20% of your profit

.

That can't be true - im currently selling a £700 item and ill be charged £70 in fees - bit unfair for someone who's selling a £2,000 motor to be charged half of what i am just because our items are sold in different categories!!!!.

I thought there was a £75 cap on fee's - as i recall this used to be £35 - so if there is a £75 cap it should be for ALL categories regardless of item type.....

No_Eye_Deer

GamerInfo wrote: »

That can't be true - im currently selling a £700 item and ill be charged £70 in fees - bit unfair for someone who's selling a £2,000 motor to be charged half of what i am just because our items are sold in different categories!!!!.

I thought there was a £75 cap on fee's - as i recall this used to be £35 - so if there is a £75 cap it should be for ALL categories regardless of item type.....

I got it from this page
eBay Motors Fees
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/motorfees.html

I have never sold a motor on eBAy. Someone who has, may be able to confirm if that is right or wrong

RFW

No_Eye_Deer wrote: »

I got it from this page
eBay Motors Fees
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/motorfees.html

I have never sold a motor on eBAy. Someone who has, may be able to confirm if that is right or wrong

I'm not a car seller either but I do know that Ebay motors has a number of different rules/fees to the rest of Ebay.

Poppy9

When I sold a car on Ebay a few years ago it cost me £17.50 as Ebay had a promotion on. Easiest way I've ever sold a car.