Question Re: Ebay commission on postage in Member To Member Support DO NOT DELETE

Ebay commission on postage

pcw60 — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:10:13 GMT

I sold an item of £3.00 and the postage was £7.00 ,i was disgusted to found out that Ebay charged me 16.4% commission,daylight robbery,Why is Ebay charging commission on postage? and i find the new layout is confusing and difficult to work with.I will proberly stop selling as it is just not worth it.

Re: Ebay commission on postage

arkwebus — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:46:03 GMT

This has really been done to death. EBay has charged fees on postage for at least 15 years.

I could be said that it is to prevent a seller setting his price at 99p with £10 postage.

Many of us sell as "post free" [not free at all, more "included"] which means that we get charged on the whole price and the buyer is not troubled with any postage queries.

@pcw60

Re: Ebay commission on postage

plpmr — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:45:04 GMT

"Why is Ebay charging commission on postage"

Adding to the answer already given -

You have been a member for 17 years and have only just noticed - after a decade?

Re: Ebay commission on postage

red_magpie — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:54:01 GMT

I don't understand what your question.

You've been selling here for years. EBay and PayPal's combined fees were about 15% on the total sale price, including postage. Under managed payments, there's very little difference in the amount charged, now that payments are processed through eBay only.

If you want to ask why eBay charges fees on postage, you're about 10 years too late!