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So I recently sold and item on EBay for ~450 and found myself paying a free listing fee but with a sellers fee of ~$42. Is this normal for selling minis? And if so how are people avoiding the 10% fee if at all? I was away from Ebay for a bit so things seem to have changed.

Thanks!
~QW

You list for free now but pay EBAY if it sells. You also pay is you slap a reserve on it and it dosent sell. To advoid EBAY fees, sell here or on Dakka.

Don't forget the charge you get when the person pays by paypal. That goes to ebay too.

Also only the 1st 50 auctions are free unless you pay for more.

Imaginos wrote:Don't forget the charge you get when the person pays by paypal. That goes to ebay too.

To add to this NEVER send money as a gift when buying from a member on BT or Dakka. If you do you may have trouble getting the money back if things go bad. Only mark as gift for family members.

The only time I gift money is to give a benefit to the other trader if they ship first. So I will gift the payment upon receipt and review of the items.

I almost always put 'Gift payment is appreciated but not required' as part of my summing up e-mail for a transaction when I'm selling. It is completely optional for the buyer, but my feedback rating should give them some confidence that I'm not a jerk.

I will also negotiate gift payment (or payment of fees) if someone is asking for a big discount or a deal. i.e. "I'll do that for $40 shipped by Paypal Gift or $42 shipped by normal paypal"

Plenty of people take me up on it and I have never had a problem. Never forced, but certainly appreciated.

I'm not sure if it still works, but people used to sell items cheap on EBay, and charge more for shipping after. You paid a percentage fee of the selling price, but that percentage wasn't calculated with the shipping.
Example: sell item for $500.00 + $10.00 for shipping=$510.00; 10% selling fee ($50.00) means you're taking home $460.00
Sell the item for $50.00 + $460.00 for shipping =$510.00; 10% selling fee ($5.00) means you're taking home $505.00

Of course, doing it that way assumes anyone looking at your listing understands why your shipping costs are soooo high, which means you're going to scare off a lot of potential buyers who don't understand that.

Yatsuo wrote:I'm not sure if it still works, but people used to sell items cheap on EBay, and charge more for shipping after. You paid a percentage fee of the selling price, but that percentage wasn't calculated with the shipping.
Example: sell item for $500.00 + $10.00 for shipping=$510.00; 10% selling fee ($50.00) means you're taking home $460.00
Sell the item for $50.00 + $460.00 for shipping =$510.00; 10% selling fee ($5.00) means you're taking home $505.00

Of course, doing it that way assumes anyone looking at your listing understands why your shipping costs are soooo high, which means you're going to scare off a lot of potential buyers who don't understand that.

Alot was doing that so Ebay Changed it now they charge on the total amount including shipping thats why alot of listings now charge more but offer free shipping as the "free" gives them a boost in the search results

ALSO - charging less for the items and more for shipping WAS against eBay rules... it was a reportable offense called, "Fee avoidance," that could get your listing yanked off eBay and no refund of your listing fee because "you broke the rules."