Kingman, KS
Quoted from Playdium:For Ebay sellers, you need to read this.
I have been trying to figure out the fees I am being charged for my recent sales. Nothing was adding up correctly. The new policy is that a 12.35% commission is charged on the total sale, (including shipping fees), plus .30 for the transaction.
However, I noticed that I am being charged more than that. I just spent a half hour on an online chat with Ebay to get an answer. What they are charging is 12.35% for the item, plus the shipping you charged, PLUS the sales tax collected by Ebay!
Why the hell would I pay a commission on tax dollars collected by Ebay?
How can this even be legal?????
I had the same questions a few weeks ago before finally figuring that out. The 10% final value fee before was always on your sales price plus the shipping cost. Paypal would charge their fee on the entire transaction including the tax collected (which still sucks). But now that ebay took it over they charge the final value fee (normally 10%) on that sales tax also. It definitely adds up over time.
