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- Feb 19, 2020
It's more than 12%. Ever since they started charging sales tax to the buyer the seller also has to pay $12% of that too (and 12% of the shipping if it's included in the auction. After hundreds of sales I can tell you it's very close to 15% of the final sold price but you can never predict exactly since you don't know where the buyer lives and how much tax they were charged until they pay.I'm going to go off my hinges and say fuck ebay, he's not wrong but then again so is everybody who doesn't want to be forced to have 12% taken off the sale and have to wait on that money for four days which he needs now, he really really does he needs that money.
TL;DR - yeah fuck ebay
EDIT: quick example how ebay fees kill you:
Say a final price for an item you sell is $76. USPS Medium Flat-rate shipping box is $15 (added to final price). Then the buyer is charged 10% sales tax by ebay. That buyer pays ebay $100.10 total and then eBay determines their 12.35% fee from that ($12.36). Since the seller doesn't get the tax money and the shipping is also out of their pocket the $12.36 fee is subtracted from the $76 sale price and that's what they get from ebay ($63.64). In that example ebay's fees are about 16.5%.
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