22-12-2020 6:52 PM - edited 22-12-2020 9:38 PM
Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could help clarify a point about what happens to Post & Packing charges after eBay has calculated their monthly fees. My cousin has been selling lots of his old stuff on eBay, and this month he's been getting a 50% discount on the delivery charge by using Hermes. He never knew when this would end so decided to just charge the basic delivery charge to the customer.
He was talking with me today and can't understand how eBay works it out, as the total fees were charged correctly, around 11%, but there was no extra money in his Paypal account for the remainder of the delivery fees charge.
I've only sold a few things on eBay and not for ages (that's another story... related directly to Paypal itself). Anyway, he says he charged his buyers a total of around £200 for delivery, but the actual cost with the 50% reduction was around £100, but he does not have an extra £100 in his Paypal account.
Does that money go back to the buyer or does eBay keep it? He thinks he should have an extra £100 in his Paypal account but it's just the money from his sales. So what happens to the extra?
Thanks guys.
Edit to correct typos!
He's probably forgetting that Paypal charge 2.9%+30p on the total payment received,this is probably the difference in what he was expecting and what actually arrived in his pp ccount.
eBay then charge 10% on total sale in their monthly invoice.