@hideawayvideo wrote:
What are the Final Value Fees for Business Sellers with a shop in % terms and any other extra charges?
e.g. If I sell a DVD to someone for £2.50, eBay will take...? Out of the final sale.
Thank you.
Having a shop (or not) makes no difference to the final value fees. The upfront listing fees get progressively less expensive for different shop levels but FVFs stay the same. Here's ebay's info page for business seller fees: Fees for business sellers | eBay
There's no simple answer because ebay deliberately make it as complex as possible to try and stop sellers from realising just how much it costs. Ironically, ebay call that "simplifying".
So, for a DVD sold as a business seller, the final value fee is 30p + 9.9%. But that figure only stands if you're VAT registered. If you're not VAT registered then you need to multiply all fees by 1.2 to get to what it will actually cost you. So then the FVF becomes 36p + 11.88%. But, on top of that, you also get charged a regulatory operating fee of 0.35% (that one's a special perk of being a business seller - private sellers don't get charged for that service). Of course, that becomes 0.42% once you've added the VAT.
So your final value fee (assuming no VAT registration) is now 36p + 12.3%. But that only stands if your sale is to a UK buyer. If your buyer is abroad or their account was registered on a foreign ebay site then you pay an international fee on top as well. That fee is an extra 1.05% for Eurozone & Northern Europe, 1.8% for Canada and USA and 2.0% for all other countries. Remember to multiply them by 1.2 if you're not VAT registered so they become 1.26%, 2.16% and 2.4% respectively.
But we're not done yet. If your buyer is in a country where import VAT (or its equivalent tax) is charged then ebay have to collect and remit this VAT at whatever rate each country charges it at (it varies but 20% is fairly average). But ebay make sure that they make money from doing this job for the various taxmen by charging business sellers the full FVF percentage on the tax that ebay have to collect (that never goes anywhere near the seller) as well as on the item price and the postage price. Off the top of my head, countries with this import tax in place (at a variety of different rates) are all of the EU, Norway, Australia, New Zealand and most states in the USA.
So, if you sell with "free" UK postage and the buyer of your £2.50 DVD is in, and registered in, the UK then your FVF (assuming you're not VAT registered) will only be 36p + 12.3% of the £2.50 - which comes to 67p. If you charge postage on top of the £2.50 then you'll also pay 12.8% of the postage charged.
If the buyer is not in the UK then that 67p will increase but it'll be different for every country.
So, simple answer is in red above but even that is far from simple.
