Ebay Final Value Fees - help plz!

Crowqueen

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?

Given that fees in most categories are 10%, you got about £35-£40 for your coat - you would not have got that at a car boot sale (lucky to sell stuff for a few pounds), you would have made nothing if you had donated it to a charity shop and you would have made substantially less if eBay hadn't paid for multi-million pound advertising campaigns to get buyers interested in shopping there (which is where the fees go, as well as protecting buyers so they are happy to hand you £35-£40 for something rather than a fiver).

There are cheaper sites out there but few buyers use them so it's either 15% of £40 or 5% of £0.