Sellers on ebay lose at least 12% of the sale. Ebay takes 9% of the final total including shipping, and paypal take 3% of the total. That is funny too because paypal is owned by ebay so ebay gets all the fees. Now your first 50 listings are free and after that you have to pay insertion fees, lets say you want to list another 50 items well that will cost you about $30-$40. Many people may say hey you get 50 a month for free thas good enough, but the listings only last 1 week so lets say you list 50 items and only 12 sell, now if you want to relist those items the following 3 weeks youre looking at about $100 in fees. So to make a good profit from there is really hard now. now you will have to sell $100 in items just to pay your ebay fees. i really dont get the them charging you fees on Shipping too. If i charge someone $1 over the actaul shipping rate to cover the amount ebay takes just on shipping not my profit, they leave negative feedback or now they are considered dsr, so now every single sale i lose 12% right of the bat by taking a hit on the shipping. The reason they do that though is people were avoiding fees by listing there item for a buy it now of $.01 and then charging $100 for shipping when it might cost $1 to ship. That scam ruined ebay for many legitimate users. Ebay is getting worse and worse in my opinion, there new system makes it damn near impossible to be a top rated seller, i was until this month a top rated seller, i have 100% feedback, 5 stars in shipping fees, shipping rates, items as described, communication, well every category. I elected to indicate on every listing that i have 1 day handling, which i do ship every item the day after payment and upload tracking number. Well i had 4 people pick up localy that even left great feedback, well ebay didnt record me uploading tracking for those items so they penalized me by taking it away and guess when the next time they review my account to be eligble again 3 months. Yet a guy who has multiple negative and neutral feedback with tons of shipping issues, and bad items,but the guy uploads tracking number for everything still keeps his, makes no sence. Sorry for the rant i just want to educate people on fees because when they pay $50 for something they think i get the $50 nope i offer free shipping on almost every item, which i just figured in the shipping in the price, people dont realize how much shipping fees really are these days. On a $50 part i may get $30 profit. Which isnt profit either thats just how much i get out of the $50. The seadoos are not free and my time to remove the parts, go over the part, clean the part and list the part should count for something, not to mention getting bubble wrap, bubblemailers boxes, and my time at the post office.
