Ebay fee's question ... help ease my mind

[strikeratt]

Might be in the wrong forum if so lock it but ...

When you get paid through paypal does ebay automatically take out it's fee's?

That's all thanks :D

[wubb]

PayPal takes out any PayPal fees, but no eBay doesn't automatically take out eBay fees from each PayPal payment.

Your eBay fees (insertion fee, any upgrades, final value fee, etc) show up on your Seller Account page in My eBay and you can pay them with a credit card (billed each month) or make a payment from your PayPal account. Probably other payment methods, too.

[strikeratt]

PayPal takes out any PayPal fees, but no eBay doesn't automatically take out eBay fees from each PayPal payment.

Your eBay fees (insertion fee, any upgrades, final value fee, etc) show up on your Seller Account page in My eBay and you can pay them with a credit card (billed each month) or make a payment from your PayPal account. Probably other payment methods, too.

Thanks for moving this (if it was you :D )

Thank you I found the Seller Account page. So in other words not only does paypal take out the 3% but ebay takes out some massive fee's to?

In the end that's about 8% of the final price of the item. Subtract the price that you purchased the item for and I made about 5$ off each item ... joy :(

[Drnick]

yeah.. ebay's fees are getting CRAZY. They go up every year (sometimes several times per year) and they have a horrable support department.

I used to run an Ebay selling business, and let me say they are one of the worst companies I have ever done business with. When you think about it, ebay does pretty much NOTHING. you get the item, you make the listing, you take the payment, you ship the item. all they do is charge you to put up you item, then charge you for "upgrades", charge you again when your item sells (final value fee) and THEN they charge you on the paypal payment (ebay owns paypal).

I stopped doing the ebay selling part of my business because It wasn't worth the time and aggrivation for what little money it took in.

[sandman007]

yeah.. ebay's fees are getting CRAZY. They go up every year (sometimes several times per year) and they have a horrable support department.

I used to run an Ebay selling business, and let me say they are one of the worst companies I have ever done business with. When you think about it, ebay does pretty much NOTHING. you get the item, you make the listing, you take the payment, you ship the item. all they do is charge you to put up you item, then charge you for "upgrades", charge you again when your item sells (final value fee) and THEN they charge you on the paypal payment (ebay owns paypal).

I stopped doing the ebay selling part of my business because It wasn't worth the time and aggrivation for what little money it took in.


To say eBay does NOTHING is ridiculous. They provide the entire backbone for your auctions to even exist. I can only imagine the work that goes into maintaining and updating a site as complex as eBay. I'm not a huge fan of eBay and their fees, but I can at least understand and respect the work that they do to create and maintain it.