Why does Ebay charge fees on Shipping & Sales Tax

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  • @RockstarFlipper
    @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Guys and Girls don't sweat the small stuff and keep moving

    • @Chicago48
      @Chicago48 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't sweat the EB fees. I sweat the up and up increase in postage costs. The USPS must be stopped.

    • @russjordan243
      @russjordan243 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      eBay fees by percentage are NOT small stuff… especially when you have to do promoted listings just to get seen anymore.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@russjordan243 13-14%. Poshmark is 20%. Amazon is 18-25%.
      I mean….its normal and cheaper than most. 2% promoted is 16% total. Still fine

    • @cribbyj1722
      @cribbyj1722 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Needs to be a competitor!

    • @shanabarrett5310
      @shanabarrett5310 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Chicago48have you gone to the USPS website and read about the 10 year plan. I felt the same way until
      I understood a little better what was going on. Prices should go back down once they are out of the hole they are in.

  • @memoryroom6388
    @memoryroom6388 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Given that eBay knows exactly how much we paid to a shipping service, why does eBay charge us a fee on that amount alone? Because they can. If big-tech companies could put everyone in chains and suck their blood out, they would.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Obivously you didn't listen to any part of this video

    • @memoryroom6388
      @memoryroom6388 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@RockstarFlipper I did!

    • @humility-righteous-giving
      @humility-righteous-giving 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i just had a return were they did not reimburse my fees, they seem to have made new policy that its ok for them to rob me more, i don't sell much anymore,i had so many returns ,its like ebay is applying pressure to end my store ,i am objectively being robbed by paying fees on sales tax,shipping cost and now they have made it ok to rob me my fees it seems, of cause i called costumer service and voiced my grievance but i probably spoke to a wall,,yeah she will submit a request to reimburse me my fee on that return and they probably won't

  • @gobeklipepe
    @gobeklipepe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    As always, this channel keeps us informed in reselling news information. 📰 💯

  • @DorisPlagens
    @DorisPlagens 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I'm just happy to get a sale!!!!

    • @memoryroom6388
      @memoryroom6388 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And that is great. But you are not the one that keeps the overloads checked, and keeps your nice life. It is those who question and persecute that do that for you.

  • @mergeform
    @mergeform 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    eBay fees should be price sensitive, 7% on under $5 items like it used to be in the beginning. Also sensitive to the proportion of shipping cost paid to buy eBay labels vs the item price. Supporting small business is all upside.

  • @KatisonYoutube
    @KatisonYoutube 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for explaining.

  • @BambiColors
    @BambiColors หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the information. I appreciate it sir. Im a new seller trying to figure out why out of $360 my payout is $250. I knew the answer already, just wanted to see the technical reasons.
    We all know the policy is steal from the poor and give to the rich. We still have to eat it regardless if we want to sell on their platform, but we can discuss it all the same. Better than pretending its all for our benefit.

  • @PJFAZE
    @PJFAZE 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Poshmark was great to get my feet wet, cuz it says right out, "Sell for $25 & receive $20" But Ebay, it's an unknown equation, I haven't the foggiest idea what it will be. It reminds me of going to Canada & paying with American money and just hoping they gave me the right amount back in Canadian. I just make sure that everything is weighed so that I don't short myself on shipping like I used to. I don't miss those days ! And buy so low that I can loose.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It isn't unknown... you can google their fee structure and use it

    • @PJFAZE
      @PJFAZE 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RockstarFlipper Ok, but the sales tax, that number isn't known until after they purchase. And it will be different every time. I'm not complaining, but it would be nice to see the fee total while I'm waiting for the buyer to pay. No one could ever know all that tax info! For example some shoes in Massachusetts are taxable & some are not! Go figure! - Nope! I don't want to. But if Ebay could just make the buyer pay after I've accepted their offer, that would be great! ;)

  • @tdog999100
    @tdog999100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I live in the UK and I'm not a seller as a business, I hadn't even used Ebay in years, I was selling a saxophone and they charged me over £30 that I did not expect, needless to say I will never use Ebay again.
    Edit: the item was private property and tax was already paid on it when I purchased it, crazy to think I'm taxed again to sell it on.

  • @Scarden80
    @Scarden80 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great explanation thanks!!

  • @packerfan10
    @packerfan10 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For a while my city had the highest sales tax in the US at 10.25% I sure miss the loophole days of buying items and not paying sales tax! Supreme court messed that one up.

  • @STARFLEETC0MMAND
    @STARFLEETC0MMAND 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    🤣
    Used to sell thousands of 1¢ items back in the day, it was fun while it lasted.
    Can't share the other tricks that currently work.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh i know them all, but I am NOT sharing them worldwide

  • @russjordan243
    @russjordan243 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I appreciate your explaining why eBay began charging fees on shipping, but when you do shipping thru the eBay platform and they know exactly what you’re paying for it, why do they still charge fees on postage costs? Because they’re greedy is the only answer I can come up with. And it’s not like they haven’t done a LOT of stuff over the years, particularly since 2008, out of sheer greed.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@russjordan243 it’s very easy. $1+$99 shipping. Period. Everyone would do it.
      Or they would mark items at 1000lbs. And charge $1 + $500 shipping.
      To many ways to scam

  • @mst5533
    @mst5533 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the breakdown

  • @outfishing6934
    @outfishing6934 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fee's on taxes kill me. I've been selling on Ebay for over 20 years and I don't mind most of the fees. The article I just read said Ebay does about 2 billion transactions a day. If each of those transactions was a 1 dollar that would be 2 billion in sales. Now lets say only half pay tax so 1 billion and the tax rate was est. 8% that $80, 000,000. Now lets say Ebay's fee is 13% that's $10, 400, 000 in fees on taxes. Let's Ebay only actually collects 10% of that 13% as an example. Then they would be making a daily profit of $1,400,000. I'm not sure of the cost to process taxes for all the sellers on Ebay but I'm betting it's not $1,400,000 x 365 = $379,600,000. To me profiting off of taxes is pretty low. All that said I'm stilling selling on the platform and Ebay knows they're currently the best way to go so we all stay.

  • @shanabarrett5310
    @shanabarrett5310 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you think about it. You don’t really get a discount on eBay shipping labels when, in my case, 15% is taken out of the price as a fee.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shanabarrett5310 $6 label 13.5%. $.81
      You are getting like a $3/$4 discount from retail
      Also if they don’t do it every single item will be $.99 and $50 shipping. 🤷‍♂️

  • @danew637
    @danew637 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    short answer corporate greed.

  • @tangiechapman6219
    @tangiechapman6219 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have a Facebook portal 1gen somebody wants 40 bucks should I hold onto it or sell it and it’s brand new factory seal never been out the box

  • @DS-Mi
    @DS-Mi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I completely agree. I'd figured this out on my own with regard to fees on sales tax. I'd much rather pay eBay FVF on the tax and let them do the paperwork and remittance of sales tax to all the states my items ship to.
    Since promoting listings is an option, I don't really have an issue with them charging FVF on that, either, if it brings more sales.
    jmho

  • @Astral_Dusk
    @Astral_Dusk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty sneaky sneaky how they tax that tax - or rather, fee the sales tax and then ship it off to the state essentially.

  • @bearkiti9974
    @bearkiti9974 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ebay could do an opt in for people who want to be only charged the fees on the sale price(how many people actually read the fine print on opt in/out). Conditions would be they would be responsible for the sale tax reporting to every state(Ebay would still inform IRS of the amount that should be paid by seller), they would be required to input accurate box dimension and weights for items and HAVE to use calculated shipping with no flat shipping fees and required to purchase shipping labels through Ebay. I think it would be hilarious how many dishonest sellers would mess this up. And actually if they really tried Ebay could make it pretty much foolproof but why would they take away a revenue stream?

    • @johnathin0061892
      @johnathin0061892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      State laws require eBay to collect the tax, eBay cannot opt out of doing it for anyone. (You can argue those laws are not legal because the Wayfair decision by the Supreme Court was illegitimate, and it absolutely WAS illegitimate, but eBay can't do anything about it.)

    • @ThrifterGuy
      @ThrifterGuy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If Ebay didn't collect it they are liable for it. Either way the tax man gets their money.

  • @ookingramseyoo
    @ookingramseyoo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hate that they do the shipping tax when shipping is already so high & that's why we add it... Those days are long gone where people over charge for shipping, especially with this shipping calculator, just seems scummy af.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if they didn't people would go right back to it $1 item $99 shipping

    • @ookingramseyoo
      @ookingramseyoo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RockstarFlipper Or they can do like Mercari and not allow you to put in your own price for shipping and actually use what you get for shipping to go towards the label. 🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @NocturnalRS
    @NocturnalRS 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've only ever sold a product on ebay once and it cost me about $4 shipping and this was 2-3 months ago. Now as of recently I'm randomly being charged $4.27 out of the blue and little to know explanation is being given to me. I just know that my bank is calling it a "Preauthorized debit" or something with a random users name. I can't even go back and look at my sales history because it's deleted for some reason?

  • @Artificial_Intelligence00
    @Artificial_Intelligence00 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Since eBay charges us fees on the sales tax the customer pays, How can I find out what my profit will be prior to listing the item? Different cities have different sale tax.

  • @paidinfull5950
    @paidinfull5950 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wasn’t happy because I didn’t know and just sold one item for 220.00 eBay charged buyer 247.00, I ended up with 191.00 had to pay shipping then ended up with around 186.00 that to me is way too much. Luckily I was in the item at a good price and it’s okay but what if I accepted 220 because I had 200 in it? Crazy

  • @Astral_Dusk
    @Astral_Dusk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gotta calculate the fee ahead of time and slap it on the target total, no surprises allowed

  • @jessicacunningham8379
    @jessicacunningham8379 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anytime you have to pay tax it sucks !!! And promoted doesn't help my sales. FYI!

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Promos help with saturated items

  • @z50com
    @z50com 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From a business viewpoint, FVF on shipping was a GENIUS idea

    • @memoryroom6388
      @memoryroom6388 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So was slavery.

  • @psg1975
    @psg1975 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    5:10 I wonder if you might be off by 10x here :)
    $0.35 x 100 = $35 not $3.50.
    Cheers,
    Julien

  • @davidkelber3485
    @davidkelber3485 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They are doing the work. I'm good with it. I take an item, set an amount I want to get, and multiply that by 1.45. I then add $2 to set my listed price. I expect people to offer $2 less, so I get the price I wanted to get. That formula has been working well for me the past couple years.

  • @tka1528
    @tka1528 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So which ever state you sell from you the seller collects the sales tax in your state and eBay collects it in all the other states, is that right?

  • @liverust5
    @liverust5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty simple cap the damn shipping fees per category and drop commision on shipping. Doesnt matter anyway as ebay is going towards no selling fees and buyer fees which will kill sales

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@liverust5 never happen. Theres a reason Amazon owns. They take care of buyers. Mercari and posh with buyers fees are dumb asses. eBay won’t ever do it.

  • @oiiReAPeRz
    @oiiReAPeRz หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was told it was 20% sales tax deducted , so it looked like about 6% tax taken right

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@oiiReAPeRz huh? 20% sales tax deducted. What? eBay collects and pays sales tax for you. Most states are 6-9%

    • @oiiReAPeRz
      @oiiReAPeRz หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RockstarFlipperI’m in the uk do you know if it’s the same %

  • @royazoulay5557
    @royazoulay5557 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When you say “ 7:04 shipping label” does eBay charge you for the shipping itself and you only attached to the package and send it out?

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@royazoulay5557 we the SELLERS ALWAYS buy the label. The buyer does not
      If a buyer pays you $30 +$9 shipping. YOU get paid $39. Then you buy the label for $9 and attach it after printing

  • @janicecopeland9083
    @janicecopeland9083 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because they can!

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because if they don't sellers will scheme and scam

  • @Cat_Meow650
    @Cat_Meow650 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Give updated loopholes ! 🎉 not fair that ebay double dips onyo profits

  • @cribbyj1722
    @cribbyj1722 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man it seems like the transaction fee has gone way up!!

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not much its still cheaper than Amazon and Poshmark

  • @chrishedlund3196
    @chrishedlund3196 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    S9old a coin for $35 and the fees were $5.04. Seriously. Almost 15%.

  • @I_am_neo777
    @I_am_neo777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But what if your not a us resident n shipping from outside the us

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry i am unable to comment accuretly on out of country stuff

  • @mesopotamialover905
    @mesopotamialover905 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just started selling on ebay last month, you mean next year I do not have to do tax with my country here in europe? because ebay is already taking from me the sales taxes?

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry i don't know how europe works. In America they collect and pay SALES TAX for us.. We still have to do our federal taxes

  • @JohnSmith-bq1sj
    @JohnSmith-bq1sj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Be happy and pay your taxes. 0.35 times 100 is 3.50 huh?

  • @shanabarrett5310
    @shanabarrett5310 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So…..shipping fees we pay now came from early sellers. Nice.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shanabarrett5310 it would happen right now with current sellers. It’s absolutely how it should be done.

  • @davidbell9130
    @davidbell9130 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hate when im charges that tax

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They have to by law... otherwise you would have to register in all 50 states and do it

  • @bigpapi2658
    @bigpapi2658 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s not worth it anymore!!

  • @FlaminHotChips
    @FlaminHotChips 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sold an item for 42$ I ended up with 32$ wtf that’s so lame

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah why is it lame? 15% is $6.30 and any promoted you did or the label... you can start your own website and spend millions on marketing

  • @philcastora6564
    @philcastora6564 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well you must have been watching the Facebook group that Facebook group I was talking in today about this very subject. You are being so apologetic for eBay. The problem we have is eBay making a profit off of the sales tax. So let's start with your standard fee of 13% and you promote at 8% eBay is going to take 21% on top of the sales tax money that you never even see. What eBay needs to do is not profit off it and charge a flat standard fee like the credit cards would for processing of 2% it is absolutely ridiculous if you agree with eBay taking 20% profit. I am someone who makes six figures so $100,000 dollars someone would pay $1,400 in sales tax. eBay would turn around and take an additional 1400 away from the seller.

  • @mihalyfreeman5928
    @mihalyfreeman5928 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ye big deal about their fortune costs they made 10.1B in 2023!!!!!

  • @CMRetroGaming
    @CMRetroGaming 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You would think the geniuses at eBay would have a system that recognizes that a video game doesn't cost $80 to ship. I think they create their own problems sometimes and when they have to fix it, it rarely helps the sellers.

    • @johnathin0061892
      @johnathin0061892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They had a system like that in place, very very briefly. A per-category fee free shipping cap would have been a reasonable compromise. But they had a virtual monopoly on the second hand market and could do whatever they wanted, and did.

    • @CMRetroGaming
      @CMRetroGaming 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnathin0061892 Agree. The sad thing is say I wanted to "not ship to California or zone 8" because I didn't want to pay the extra fees because shipping is more and their taxes are higher. I couldn't opt out of that. I guess there's a reason they are called FEE-BAY lol

  • @Keyneron
    @Keyneron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    does not seem legal, and is tax liability

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Keyneron it’s 100% legal

    • @Keyneron
      @Keyneron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RockstarFlipper lol I know, other "tech" companies do the same thing. the problem I have is that if you get the money you are able to invest it but it is money you never see, they get to invest it. I also understand your point as well. I will bet that Ebay has a huge lawyer bill/legal department

  • @lsgsrob2102
    @lsgsrob2102 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This one I never understood why people get so mad over lol.
    Every payment processor charged on the full amount. Your gas station gets charged a fee on the tax just like your grocery store.
    Like most other little things on ebay, people get so worried about things that just don’t matter and that won’t help them make more money instead of focusing on things that do such as sourcing the best possible items you can.

  • @johnathin0061892
    @johnathin0061892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The real answer is, "Because they can, and there is nothing we can do about it".

  • @michaelpatrick5224
    @michaelpatrick5224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    .35 cents per transaction? Where did you come up with that? I wish it was that low. Nope not even close. Case in point. I had a sale $5. The shipping was to california and came to $8 so now we are at 13. Ebay then charged 13% on that, plus en extra 40 cents for sales over $10 it came to $2.33 in fees, with free listing. I made a wopp9ng $2.66 on that sale. If all they charged me was 35 cents as you said in the video I would gave neen fine. But no, I'm now at 50% of any gross income. Wtf. Now, granted some of my larger sales have been only 25% but on average they are collecting at least a 1/3 of my gross income. That's killing me. I'm still learning, only been doing it for 1 months. But when I talked to them, they told me that was standard. On my latest sale, I made the mistake to sell boots. The sale was $8 but the shipping was $16 due to box size. Only 2 pounds though. So on $24 they got me for $3.50. I was left with $4.50. I may be missing something big, but ebay is turning me over and having a party.

    • @RockstarFlipper
      @RockstarFlipper  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When did i say ebay charges $.35.......and only $.35

    • @michaelpatrick5224
      @michaelpatrick5224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1st, please understand i am a little soar at thd fees, not you. Just frustrated over all. 2nd you mentioned at 5:01 in the video 35 cents over thousands of transactions. It makes it sound like you mean ebays only charging 35 cents. You then go on to say they are only getting so much. But the fact is, that was on the very low end. My $5 transaction went to $13 with shipping and that ended up costing me $2.88. I hope I am doing something wrong and I need to watch more of the videos to learn more, but can at least see why I am a bit confused by such a low amount in your video?

    • @michaelpatrick5224
      @michaelpatrick5224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RockstarFlipper Sorry, I thought I replied already, but I guess that did not go through. I do want to say that I am just frustrated with the system. Not at you. But I did want to add some context where you mentioned at 5:00 Mark you mentioned 35 Cents over thousands of transactions. That I felt greatly undermined how much they collect. Maybe I am misunderstanding, and granted I am loosing context because this was a week ago, but not once has my fees been anywhere near .35. What I am saying is that you indicated that the 35 cents they collected for registering for each state when paying the sales tax and that is why it was included in the fees. So I guess you were just focusing on the portion of the fees that included the sales tax. I think that is what I got hooked up on. I think I might have misunderstood that you were only talking about the fees they raise on the taxes, not including the fees they get you on adding shipping to the mix. In any case. in all my fees, nothing, not even my $5 items I sold have been less than $2.30 in ebay fees. My highest item I just sold or $125, $140 including shipping and taxes, resulted in $17 in fees. I am surmising here because I am busy at the moment, but they are making crazy money in fees right now. My end profit (item only cost me $5) was $90 and change. Anyways, as I said, just frustrated here, and your 35 cent comment just felt like you were minimalizing eBay's high fees a bit by only saying .35 cents over thousands of transactions. That is just so much on the low end. Thanks or listening.

  • @Durango8
    @Durango8 6 หลายเดือนก่อน