ebay

[cde21]

How does eBay figure out the seller fees? I sold some tail lights for under 70 bucks and my seller fees are 8.00! I haven't sold anything in a while, and was just wondering if this sounds about right?? TIA

[TX21]

Some of it is figured on your listing. Pictures, reserve price, buy it now are all options that cost something. Then I think they take %3 of the total sale price. Then Paypal takes another %3.

[mustangguy289]

Some of it is figured on your listing. Pictures, reserve price, buy it now are all options that cost something. Then I think they take %3 of the total sale price. Then Paypal takes another %3.

3% my ass.....

[mustangguy289]

Here are fees for non-auto related stuff.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

ebay motors:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/motorfees.html

For MOST items it is 9% up to $50 for an auction style listing.

[cde21]

Here are fees for non-auto related stuff.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

ebay motors:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/motorfees.html

For MOST items it is 9% up to $50 for an auction style listing.

Damn, that shit is weak. I had no idea! Thanks for the info. I knew my listing fees were under 2 bucks and PayPal already took their share. Craigslist it is!

[TorchRedStang]

It's a total ripoff and one hell of a monopoly. Paypal fees are 4% last I checked. The last few things I have sold on e-bay I have had to pay about 12% in fees to ebay... so... 16% of the money I received went to e-bay (since e-bay owns paypal). I need to create a new alternative to e-bay with lower fees... only to be bought out by e-bay once it takes off! LOL

[gearhead78]

Ebay is a double edge sword. They have stupid high fees but I still seem to get the most buyers and money from that place. I have tried to get myself off of it several times but I keep going back because I make more money and sell more stuff there even after paying the rape fees.

[TX21]

Ebay is a double edge sword. They have stupid high fees but I still seem to get the most buyers and money from that place. I have tried to get myself off of it several times but I keep going back because I make more money and sell more stuff there even after paying the rape fees.

I have bought a few things off of www.ioffer.com its kinda like ebay but for cheaper stuff.

[A_A_G]

Reason why I haven't sold anything on ebay in 5 years. I still buy things, but their seller fees are crazy high!

[mustangguy289]

seller fees are better than all the calls/ texts/ and no shows you get from craigslist.

I only use craigslist for items that are too big to ship. I can promise that you will get a much higher selling price to cover the selling fees on ebay compared to craigslist.

[mystic96]

Can't you just add the fees onto the total sale price? I buy a lot of parts for my Grand Prix from a vendor who only uses Paypal and I pay the 3% paypal fee to him.

Seems like you could just relay that to the buyer somehow through email that they're responsible to cover the fees also.

<---Never sold anything on ebay so I don't know if that's acceptable or not

[Cooter]

only thing I sell on ebay is vehicles... they dropped their sales fee BIG TIME a while back when CL started kicking

selling anything other than a vehicle sucks... I can sell on CL for 15% less and be almost equal on my net.

I buy a ton of shit on ebay though