I sell stuff on eBay all the time, mainly thrift finds, but it more of hobby than anything else so I haven’t really been keeping up with all the little internal charges the apply against the sale until the other day when, as a favor, I sold a watch for the head of my real estate firm. I then had to break out the charges for him to tell him how much it cost him to sell it … and wow!
I thought my total transaction costs would be around 7 or 8%, they are actually around 12%. I also see they snuck in a new fee to charge me a percentage on my shipping costs! What bastards!
Watch - Sold - (290.00)
$ 1.00 for pictures – eBay charge
$ .45 final value charge for shipping
$ 26.10 - eBay final selling fee charged by eBay
8.85 - Paypal fee charged by Paypal 36.40 – Total cost to sell
Net $ 253.60