Ebay charging fees including postage

[bric-a-brac-online]

How does Ebay allowed to charge a final fees which include the postage - I would have thought that the postage cost was only the seller and Australia post - how do they get away with it - loophole in the system may be

[misterforgetfulsbooks]

Well if they were giving a % of our fees to Tony Abbott, I wouldn't feel so bad about collecting them.

[baby*toddler*child]

Ok this is what I see which is postage fees ?

Fees

Insertion fees

AU $18.60

AU $14.10

AU $17.10

Listing feature fees

AU $10.00

AU $8.50

AU $9.50

Final value fees

AU $249.60

AU $187.82

AU $244.47

Subscription fees

AU $66.89

AU $66.89

AU $66.89

Subtotal

AU $345.09

AU $277.31

AU $337.96

[baby*toddler*child]

I di list postage separate but its not showing on my fees page or where do I look for them ?

[pennyforum14]

You appear to be looking at the summary, in the summary the postage FVF are bundled in with the sale FVF.  If you look at your detailed transaction report you will see exctly what you have been charged for each sale.  This is where it is shown as FVF and FVF on postage.

[baby*toddler*child]

Hi no this is hat I see, there is only 1 FVF

eBay

Fees

Insertion fees

AU $18.60

AU $14.10

AU $17.10

Listing feature fees

AU $10.00

AU $8.50

AU $9.50

Final value fees

AU $249.60

AU $187.82

AU $244.47

Subscription fees

AU $66.89

AU $66.89

AU $66.89

Subtotal

AU $345.09

AU $277.31

AU $337.96

Credits

Unpaid Item final value fee credits

AU $6.55

AU $24.06

AU $9.84

Other credits

AU $18.92

AU $35.08

AU $22.59

Subtotal

AU $25.47

AU $59.14

AU $32.43

	Net eBay fees	AU $319.62	AU $218.17	AU $305.53

Net eBay fees as % of sales

12.5%

10.7%

12.6%

PayPal

Fees

AU $136.02

AU $89.98

AU $143.35

Credits

AU $1.09

AU $1.75

AU $1.87

	Net PayPal fees	AU $134.93	AU $88.23	AU $141.48

Net PayPal fees as % sales

5.3%

4.3%

5.8%

eBay & PayPal

Net eBay & PayPal fees

AU $454.55

AU $306

[all.hobbies.shop]

We pay way to many fees

Yesterday I sold 6 Birdkeeper magazines for only $12, I try to keep my prices as low as possible and sell them cheap, I have seen individual mags being sold for $5. But yesterday it was not worth selling the mags at all because of the fees I paid

Final value fee = $1.19

Final value fee on shipping = $2.48 (overseas buyer)

PayPal fee = $1.63

Total paid in fees = $5.30

So $12 - $5.30 = $6.70, this is all I made from selling my mags for $12, why so many fee’s, now I know why they try to discourage sellers being paid by bank deposits because eBay gets paid a second lot of fees with PayPal.

[vicgou0000]

Likewise, I am no longer listing items on Ebay. According to others they say this is legal but ethical definitely not, its just greedy money grabbing exercise. I will sell my items elsewhere.

[lyndal1838]

I am sure that after 2 years nobody is likely to be very interested in this thread.

[2ndhandjanet]

I'm feeling more and more dismayed too by ebay fees. I only just learned that there's a fee for listing's that are "Buy it Now" every 30 days. I thought they were the way to go when something didn't sell but I'll have to rethink things because I think I'm running at a loss too - it's very hard to work out all the fees - I've been refunding postage too, only to have ebay take it off me as well!

[2ndhandjanet]

You're very kind. I've underqooted too at my loss. It's really hard to stay on top of the game - Ebay manages too though of course!