They already charge a final value fee about 10%.
Insertion fee for each item is 50 cents, no matter if it sells at all.
Some items only get a very low viewcount, and it takes months until one piece sells for a few dollar.
For instance in recent months I made about $130 sales/month (not profit, raw sales).
Fees are nearly 25 dollar/month.
This is adding nearly 20% to the so-called "final value fee".
All together I have to pay nearly 30% to eBay. That is a pretty high price/service charge.
I posted about that on the community with no result.
I wrote to customer care about that with no result.
In my opinion there should be a cap on the total final value fee, the percentage you have to pay to eBay. 30% in my opinion is too much demanded. It is also a hidden cost which is not obvious.
Larger shops with higher throughput are having advantage here, they even can get lower insertion fee's.
So the total amount of money eBay is making from small-scale sellers is neglible.
Insertion fee for each item is 50 cents, no matter if it sells at all.
Some items only get a very low viewcount, and it takes months until one piece sells for a few dollar.
For instance in recent months I made about $130 sales/month (not profit, raw sales).
Fees are nearly 25 dollar/month.
This is adding nearly 20% to the so-called "final value fee".
All together I have to pay nearly 30% to eBay. That is a pretty high price/service charge.
I posted about that on the community with no result.
I wrote to customer care about that with no result.
In my opinion there should be a cap on the total final value fee, the percentage you have to pay to eBay. 30% in my opinion is too much demanded. It is also a hidden cost which is not obvious.
Larger shops with higher throughput are having advantage here, they even can get lower insertion fee's.
So the total amount of money eBay is making from small-scale sellers is neglible.