hiwhy does ebay take commission on shipping cost as I sell items for auction

[creamandgreen]

why does ebay take a commission on shipping fees?. I have been told by ebay staff by phone to add postage onto price of item & tick postage free. All my items are auctions so if I started item off at .99 cents with postage at $14.80 The buyer would recieve item for nothing & it would cost me more than the item is worth. I don't mind paying commission for final valuation fee 10%. But ebay forced people selling into opening  pay-pal accounts. Pay-Pal   take their commission on total amount deposited by buyer which includes shipping costs. then ebay take their commission out of the total deposit (item final value sold & shipping costs). Do they expect the smaller ebayer members to compete with all the bigger companies that mark their products up when bought & add their propfit percentage plus shipping costs into the price of their items before selling at a fixed price. Example Myers, david jones, target all have postal account where they can send any item anywhere in australia for about $5.00 how can I being a smaller ebay seller compete with that. We the smaller ebay seller are getting charged commission twice on the same final value fee & shipping by ebay & pay-pal. Could you please look into this matter as it is unfair to be charged twice for the one total price by both companies.

thankyou

[englishrosegardens]

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@imastawka wrote:

           So, in the long run, it's simply semantics, and newdeals

has just been messin' wif y'all

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This is what I said hours ago.  I don't know why people have wasted so much time arguing about something that can be looked at in so many different ways, or to argue with someone who contradicts themself so often.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@jensmanchester-australia wrote:

go-tazz - the op is basing their concept of profit on gross profit not net profit.

For example if they purchase an item for $5.00 and sell it for $20.00 they are saying they have made a profit of $15.00 and that $15.00 is their money to put in their pocket to spend however they want.

Out of the $15.00 profit, which in their mind no longer belongs to the buyer as that is their money to spend, they are saying they are paying the ebay fees, paypal fees and any other costs associated with the sale of the item (ie Internet costs, stationary costs etc etc).

They are also saying if a cost goes up - ie the ebay fees were to increase, rather than increase the price of the item they are paying the extra costs out of their gross profit. They are perceiving it is as coming out of their pocket as at the end of the day they have less money left over, after all costs, for them to spend.

Most people who run a business understand it is the net profit which is the important figure - not the gross profit as gross profit does not take into consideration the expenses.

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Jen, obviously with almost 54,000 feedback, you have no idea what you're talking about. It would be blatantly obvious to someone with 140 feedback that they know more about running a business than you. I thought you would have known that? Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame.

One can only assume that 247 is running his business at a loss to be paying the fees out of his own pocket. The only reason I can think of someone doing that is a tax dodge.

Here's the horse a few months before it died

Here it is again a few days before it died

Here is the horse being scared to death

We all know what happened then.

It's all getting a bit too much really!