I am totally confused with regards to postage fees and how ebay charge them.

[badge*button_pro]

I can see as my items are sold ebay add the fvf. As I sell a lot of items and combine the postage for multiple buys I am worried about how this is charged. Why am I charged fees before I send invoices ? how do ebay know how much postage I am charging ?. Am I been charged postage on each little item when i actually rarely  sell just one of my item to the same buyer. I hope this makes sense to you. Thank you in advance 🙂

[harley_babes_hoard]

you are not suppose to be charged until the buyer pays but that is not the case. I had two sales last week where I had combined postage but they charged the FVF on 4 lots of postage instead of 2.

[badge*button_pro]

I thought the fees would be charged either when the buyer actually paid , or when I sent a final invoice. This is so confusing

[mbselections00]

And so wrong !!

[egglesdtp]

Ring ebay and explain that you sent the buyer a combined invoice, which shows the correct postage. They may back down and refund the excess FVF as happened last month for me.

[peri-landlubber]

I have found that eBay charge fvf on shipping, by charging an equal portion of the combined postage to each item.

[stampingpaws]

Hi,

I was so fed up with this new postage policy, combining invoices, EBay overcharging FVF, etc I offerred

 FREE POSTAGE WORLD WIDE. Hers how I did it.

First I sell Stamp Albums on CD so I post out a CD in a padded bag $1.40 to Australia, $2.60 (now $2.75) to Europe and USA)

I totalled up my sales, worked out the amount of postage, averaged the amount of postage acoss all items, increased my selling price by this amount, re-worked my profit margin to get a final selling price.

No discounts on postage if buying more than one - its already "free"

Sales went up, problems went down.

[egglesdtp]

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@peri-landlubber wrote:

I have found that eBay charge fvf on shipping, by charging an equal portion of the combined postage to each item.

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Yes, but they sometimes get me totally confused when I try to reconcile my sales reports by not dividing that FVF equally between all items sent together. I had one sale in Sep where the buyer purchased 5 items for a total postage cost of $13.50. The postage charges allocated to the five items were $0.00, $6.23, $1.73, $5.54 and $0.00. The middle three items were all sold for $10 each, so it's certainly wasn't proportionally divided according to item cost.

[egglesdtp]

Easy to do if all your items fall into more or less the same category, and can be posted for a smallish postage cost. Not so easy for sellers with a wide range of items.

[misterforgetfulsbooks]

shouldn't your ebay fee be dropped by the appropriate amount you refund your buyer after combining the multiple sales?

ie: 4 x DVD's combined into a satchel and give your buyer a refund for combining the post totalling $8 therefore you should be reimbursed the fees on the $8 you refund to your buyer.