Had a buyer buy 12 items last night. He was forced into immediate payment for each one. He selected express post, which I have listed for $11.50. An over payment of $126.50. I paid 12 lots of 30c PayPal fees. Plus an extra $12,52 in fees, with 1.25 in GST on top of that. PayPal gave me the part refund of their fees minus the 12 lots of 30c.
I am really dirty about this because I don't offer immediate payment for this reason. I know the buyer was forced to pay because I asked. I suggested to try and use the cart for multi purchases in future to avoid that, and he said he'd never heard of the cart!
Most of my items I make a pretty good profit on. These were things that had been listed for ages so I'd dropped the price a fair bit and whacked them on as BIN's. With those extra fees, I didn't even break even. I've now added bank deposit as an option on my other 2 accounts to see if that makes a difference. I only had it on my main account.
I'm going to ring eBay and get those fees refunded because I shouldn't have to pay that because they've been tinkering with stuff. I know this has been happening to others for a little while, but it's the first time it's happened to me.
