@paulsurf88 wrote:
Dear Ebay- 33% of my last sale for a whole $10. You do have to be joking by thinking adding in the cost of postage to your site will keep small sellers like myself bothering to write decent ads, maintain a good standard for your site in honesty in listings, honesty in everything really.
Item sold for $10- it is a book I no longer really require, it has a worth to someone out there, the postage cost in 3kilo bag from Australia post was 13.40.
I added $1 to cover bubble wrap, selotape and 10 days of time waiting for my listing to end...
Not much sells- but I use the FREE listings, only.
Ebay - fees are sitting at 2.42 - just for that one item, paypal then took 89c of the 24.40 deposit into paypal, lets imagine I withdraw that from paypal to pay for the bag at the PO - then I will lose $1.50 for withdraw a sum less than $150...
I am scratching my head as to why I even bother, and you have the hide to still list me as a power seller....
Us little people are worth nothing to you it seems, and I cannot imagine what you are taking in fees from bigger sellers.
So you sold a book for $10, you charged $1 for handling, you used the most expensive option available to post.
$2.42 eBay fees and 89c Paypal fees and, hopefully, $13.40 AP fees. $16.71. Profit of $7.69 for something you don't want anymore. So 23.1% in fees. Not quite 33%.
For something you could have given to your local Op shop or chucked in the bin. Your waiting time on an auction is worth nothing, as there is no requirement to do anything until the item sells. $1 for bubblewrap and stickytape is allowable, but well over the cost of same, so you need to add the difference to your profit.
Unfortunately ebay use a rolling 12 months for determining PS status, and you obviously still qualify.
Btw - you could send the same book in a 3kg eBay satchel for $11.91 with better tracking, or maybe even in a B1 box for $7.15 + box ($1.75 in singles). Which would lower your buyer's costs and shave a couple of % off your fees. If I had the book I could have sold it for at least $1 less and made more profit, so your issues seem to be self-inflicted.
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