Clarification on ebay fees

STEFANOS4784

Hi all,

I have a HTC Sensation XE phone i am selling and notice they go for around the 400 notes mark on ebay.

After paying all fees to ebay, paypal how much would i be looking at actually receiving were i to decide to take this route and say it did go for 400?

Any help greatly appreciated as i haven't used the bay for quite a while now. :?

bobtbuilder

You will get charged 10% of your final selling price up to a maximum of £40. You will also get charged an insertion fee. This fee varies depending on your starting price. Adding a reserve price will add another 3% of the reserve amount to your fees.

Full details here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html#eg3

STEFANOS4784

Ah, not as bad as i first thought, somehow got it in my head it would end up being about 25% of the selling price after all fees :roll: . Many thanks.....

Pokerface

Paypal fees will be around 4% also. So you're looking at around £56 in fees (paypal will charge you the fees on the shipping funds you receive also).

STEFANOS4784

Hang on, so is there then a fee to use paypal? I have sold something for 99p on BIN, so an 8p fee for that, brings to 91p then 10% final selling fee which brings to 82p but when i look on paypal my balance is 76p :?

cheapiehybrid

I just sold an iPhone on ebay for £300. The fees came to £40.90. That includes a listing fee of 40p, a final valuation fee of £29.88 and £10.62 paypal fees.

Pokerface

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

Hang on, so is there then a fee to use paypal?

Yes there is.

Why do you think eBay bought Paypal years ago and now insist that all sellers MUST accept it as a form of payment!??

Paypal fees are 3.8% of all monies received I believe (varies depending on the type of account you have?)

That is why - when selling on the forum - people ask that funds are sent via Paypal GIFT - as there are no fees on this type of transaction (as long as the funds come from the sender's bank account or paypal balance).

It's a racket.

STEFANOS4784

Ok, many thanks. Think I'll try trade-it first. Robbing 8@$7@£6$ :arrow: