Some Interesting Notes On How Ebay Calculates Its Fees

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kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 9:46 pm So, my wife has been listing some of our duplicates and coins we've upgraded from on ebay for a couple of months now. Had about 20 sales so far ( ebay dot ca limits on new sellers seem to be SIGNIFICANTLY lower that ebay dot com limits and get raised by lower amounts....). I had done her up a spreadsheet to keep track of things and had it calculating the ebay fees, PayPal fees etc. So I figured I'd go through the last 2 invoice and compare the numbers to see how things matched up. The first thing I noticed was that every so often (turned out to be about 30% of the time on my statistically insignificant sample) my calculation was one cent less than ebay's. Never one cent more. Always one cent in their favour. I'm chalking this up to the fact that they calculate their fee on the item and on the shipping charge separately whereas I'm calculating it on the combined total. But I can't help wondering how much an extra penny on 30% of their annual sales would work out to be.... The second, and more interesting, thing I noticed was to do with the shipping fees. She had 2 items that were sold to people in the US. Valuable items that were shipped with tracking and the shipping cost was about $3 more than it would have been within Canada. The listings have the Canadian (Domestic) shipping charge first, then in the International Shipping section there is a shipping method of Tracked Packet - International for most of the world and a second shipping method of Tracked Packet - USA for the US. So when the buyer is in the USA they pay the third shipping method price. HOWEVER ebay only charges their fee on the FIRST shipping method. So they don't collect their $0.18 on the $3 difference. So overall, I think we're coming out ahead. Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 12:10 am kuh85,it's quite refreshing to see someone post something positive about ebay.Doesn't happen too often on forums. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 01:06 am I stopped reading after the first sentence... the mere thought of my wife (willingly) touching any of my coins, and helping me with "those darn coins"... is almost funny. What is your secret? "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 01:14 am Marry the most wonderful woman in the entire world and give her absolutely everything her heart desires. Simple really. Report this Post to the Staff
SHAFTA9a Bedrock of the Community Canada 10743 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 06:29 am Good for you, kuh_85.. Report this Post to the Staff
pennysaver Pillar of the Community Canada 937 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 5:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
jkol2369 Pillar of the Community Canada 607 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 6:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
tripoli Pillar of the Community Canada 867 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 8:39 pm do you have a percentage yet that ebay is taking off your sales total? After you factor in your fees, paypal fees, what they screw you on FX etc? Report this Post to the Staff
kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 9:33 pm She's running a basic store so there's a monthly fee of $15.95 which gives you 150 free listings (auction or BIN). Without the store listings would be $0.20 per after your 50 monthly freebies. If an item sells the final value fee is 6% for coins (if you have a store). Paypal takes $0.30 per transaction plus 2.9% of the value. When you start selling you are only allowed to sell 10 items per month or $1,000. After a month you can get raised to 15/month & $1,500. After the next month maybe 35 or 50 and $3,500 or $5,000. Then 100 items & $10k. So it takes a while to get ramped up. Probably should have waited a couple of months to get the store but haven't bothered doing the math to confirm at exactly what point the final value savings become more than the monthly fee. All these numbers are for ebay dot ca. The limits apply to new sellers only. We were rather surprised when they told her that your buyer feedback is completely irrelevant to your trustworthiness as a seller. On the one hand it's been locked down tighter than it was when I was selling a couple of years back but on the other hand the fees are lower these days. Report this Post to the Staff
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