Fees too high

[jesso123]

Fees are ridiculous!!! I'm done with with selling on eBay. Asked buyer to pay by eft to avoid paypal fees or to contact me if there was any issues. Instead they just paid with paypal without contacting me and I was charged $10. I thought ok it's not too bad. But then I logged into eBay and was slammed with a $50 bill. The sale was around 450. Absolutely crazy. I sold the item at cost price to be fair and I've lost $60. I understand a small fee of up to $5 but $50 is just a scam. I will never use eBay again to sell stuff

[eol-products]

For $25/month you can open an ebay store which will give you 500 listings per month. 

[*tippy*toes*]

Of course you're paying insertion fees, you only get 40 free listings per month and you have 82 items listed. You would be far better opening a store than paying $70 a month in isertion fees. Either that, or end 42 listings before they are due to roll over. They will sit in unsold for 60 days. When the time for them is about to be up, schedule them to list at a later date, but remember to reschedule as that start date approaches. I think you can also save them as drafts, but they have a time limit too.

I would also look at some of your postage costs. While you can probably post your cushion covers as a large letter, your body products are going to be over $8 to post. Unless of course you've factored that into your selling price.

Another thing you can do is list your items for auction. That way you get 8 free relists. After 8 months you could have over 300 active listings. That said, your type of products probably wouldn't do well at auction. You'd be far better opening a basic store. 

[nortvent50]

Move along to August 2019 and my combined fees for the two ws a whopping $103.00 on$780.00. Also GST on the invoice when I get it. Now, that's atrocious.

[davewil1964]

Sell elsewhere then.

Amazon seems to be significantly more expensive, as will be B&M auctions, but there are supposedly other avenues.

Nobody is forcing you to list here, and the fees are advertised upfront, so you can't claim you didn't know.

[dazzledayz]

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@nortvent50 wrote:
Move along to August 2019 and my combined fees for the two ws a whopping $103.00 on$780.00. Also GST on the invoice when I get it. Now, that's atrocious.

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That works out to 13.2% which is not unreasonable given you have no IT overheads.

It could be cheaper but not by much.

[da_w0ne]

Just join sell pages on Facebook and sell your items there .. use PayPal goods and service .. 3% fee

[heihachi_73]

I don't think jesso will be responding, given that the OP was from March 2014.

[south.coffee]

There was until recently a possibilty of a decent eBay competitor from New Zealand setting up shop in Australia.  eBay do not have a local subsiduary across the ditch, so the home grown online portal thrived and prospered over there.  Unfortunately that business was sold this year to a British private equity firm but there are suspicions around the purchase...

Gumtree was also a reasonable free outfit until eBay bought it ?  Conspiracy theorists to front of line please.

[supermussolinibros]

facebook market place and gumtree is where the selling party is on at-millenials for example don't even look here EVER. Check this out  https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/ebay-growth-turns-negative

[springyzone]

I would agree they look at facebook but where did you get the idea they visit gumtree?

My adult kids don't. They'd visit ebay well before they would GT.

Marketplace isn't there yet, not as an all round seller of just about everything. Be my guest, try it out.

See if you can find some 0.5cm double sided tape there for sale. or some 1cm pink/orange toned ribbon. Ha! You'll be lucky to find any ribbon at all, let alone a range of shades. What about nigella seeds?

Lots of people sell on marketplace but if you're a buyer, ebay is still where the wider choice is. I wouldn't be here otherwise.