Sell 100 items challenge

Moneysavingmomma

I'm loving ebay at the minute, anything not nailed down is getting listed! Hubby is worried he's going to come home from work to find I've sold him to the highest bidder! :rotfl:

Steph312

Hi

Can anyone explain the breakdown of the fees to me please
As in my paypal account a fee (F1) is automatically taken off when the buyer checkout with paypal. But in my ebay account it says new activity not yet invoiced that includes totals of final value fees (F2) and postage fees (F3).
So what is fee F1 and are they anymore fees to expect? As I did select to donate to charity for some items but that has not been mentioned in any of these statements. Thanks for your help

rebeccajlsk

Listed a few things last night...already got a few watchers although no bids - I'm hopeful though!

Lilmiss_2

I'm going to have a go at this, really making an effort to get debt free and make some extra money!! Will help with my 1 debt 100 days challenge / sealed pot challenges too

So 100 things to go then! Challenge starts here

fairyclicks

Steph312 wrote: »

Hi

Can anyone explain the breakdown of the fees to me please
As in my paypal account a fee (F1) is automatically taken off when the buyer checkout with paypal. But in my ebay account it says new activity not yet invoiced that includes totals of final value fees (F2) and postage fees (F3).
So what is fee F1 and are they anymore fees to expect? As I did select to donate to charity for some items but that has not been mentioned in any of these statements. Thanks for your help

As far as i can tell this (F1) refers to the fee paypal charge for receiving money for goods (i think it is 20p + 3.4% of total from memory)

F2 is the final value fees for ebay - usually 10% but can differ in some categories

F3 - i assume this is talking about the fact you now get charged a fee on ebay which is inclusive of the postage amount.

That is mostly a guess (mixed with experience of ebay fees) as it is a bit hard to understand the statement - where did you get this from?

Other fees can be payable on ebay - listing and upgrading usually are the most common ones but you should get notified about this as you list.

fairyclicks

Welcome all newbies to the challenge i hope you enjoy it and find it helps with decluttering and money making

I sold a job lot of beads for the paltry sum of £1.71......never mind at least its another little bit in the pot and something else gone

Juliajojo

Can I join in too please, I desperately need to declutter my house, otherwise it will be me who will be moving out.

mm123

Guys I too am trying to declutter my house, sold a load of stuff at a baby fair and on ebay. But to be honest Im not sure ebay is worth all the hassle. You need to be sure of selling high value items. And even by the time you pay insertion fee, final selling fee which include postage! and paypal there is not much left.

I recently sold a few items at just 99p what a waste of time 99p free insertion fee as a free listing weekend but paypal fee was 37p and ebay fee of 38p equals 75p. So made a total of 25p and I still have to package it in brown parcel paper, what a waste of time why bother.

I can see why people are moving away from ebay onto facebay and gumtree as you keep all the money..Or bumping up the postage fee to make some more money.Just a thought.

j.smith1981

I'd gladly take this up, already designing a flat theme to wordpress for my server hosting, well web hosting (shared) on my server shouldn't be too hard, just need to reinstall my stuff on there and be sorted.

Selling shared hosting I mean using my VPS (perfectly legit), just as long as there's nothing of course untoward on there, even checked with a free advice offering from a local solicitors offering free digital advice, actually went down the list of their terms and conditions with me.

I think there's some glitch to the way I config'd wordpress, wouldn't take long to sort out though.

Be really cheap too just for the start off maybe half price

Steph312

fairyclicks wrote: »

As far as i can tell this (F1) refers to the fee paypal charge for receiving money for goods (i think it is 20p + 3.4% of total from memory)

F2 is the final value fees for ebay - usually 10% but can differ in some categories

F3 - i assume this is talking about the fact you now get charged a fee on ebay which is inclusive of the postage amount.

That is mostly a guess (mixed with experience of ebay fees) as it is a bit hard to understand the statement - where did you get this from?

Other fees can be payable on ebay - listing and upgrading usually are the most common ones but you should get notified about this as you list.

Oh thank you for explaining this