I feel grossly overcharged with fees

[kewl2442]

I only started again with Ebay just recently. Ebay offered the first 20 listings for free. Strangely enough I was charged over 18 dollars for it dispite of the free offer. I did not use any unusual features or options and my items were all cheap, which means the final value fee could not add up to much either.. Has anything like that happened to you before. Now I have just sold for a little over $200 but they want already $28 charges out of that. I don't know what to do.

[davewil1964]

Go to your My eBay page, click on the 'Account' tab, then select View All Account Activity.

That will give you an item by item breakdown of the fees you have incurred.

It's 30 free per month, btw. Provided you are not a Powerseller, have registered as a business, or have a store.

Every time you commit a listing, you get advised what it will cost you, if using SYI. For Turbolister you get told if discounts apply AFTER you upload the listing.

It is not required to use a poll when starting a thread.

[kopenhagen5]

Keep in mind your first 30 listings are free, but when you sell you are charged a Final Value Fee. This may help -

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/sell/fees.html#Insertion

[lane-ends]

Thats why Ebay looks like a way to make "easy" money, but it aint.

[lane-ends]

By the way your titles sound like good sales lines , but the first step is to appear in search returns, so you need more search key words such as item colour, size, long sleeve, top, cardigan, sweater, shirt etc..ie words that people will put in searches. No one puts it stunning,fabulous or other descriptive words. They are wasted in titles. pack your title with as many relevent words, even if you are stretching the relevence. Your items needs to be found first and foremost before you have any chance of selling.

For example if you are selling a blouse, you use blouse, shirt and top, as all 3 will get you picked up in 3 individual searches. stunning blouse will get you picked up in 1 search, the word stunning will get you picked up in none.

[comcol]

try selling desktops on this rip off site now. Fees have nearly doubled to ridiculous levels. Ebay is celarly protecting certain sellers on here whilst attempting to ruin the business of all others. They only want a handful for each catagory. Thus, why the so called "best match" was brought in.

[digital*ghost]

Sounds like the correct fees to me. You have 23 current listings and 28 completed listings in the last two weeks alone, so you've exceeded the 30 free by 21 (assuming you didn't list anything prior to May 11).

21 x 50c = $10.50, final value fee of 7.9% on $200 is $15.80, so add those two ($26+) and it would seem with a $28 account balance, you weren't charged with anything other than what you were meant to be.

[digital*ghost]

BTW, just thought I should mention that when you have to pay for a listing, the price is $1.50 (not 50c) when you start it at $20 or more, so if/when you look through your fees on your account, some of your listings will cost more than others.

[sharongrey]

I sold an item 2 days ago for $390 and was charged $80.40.

Yet final invoice says $30.91 i have emailed to see what has happened.

[drumbuie35]

I WAS OVERCHARGED BY EBAY MY SEPTEMBER INVIOCE

 SHOULD HAVE READ $6.23 ebay charged me

$43.98 why when i phoned ebay australia they are closed for the week end please what do i do

                                                         cheers james