What in the world has happened to Ebay fees?

[blykins]

I sold a set of my rocker arms and the fees were $69???!!!!

I'm getting ready to yank everything off of there.  Ridiculous.

[Hemi Joel]

Final value fees are now up to 10% on car parts, and you are charged on the shipping and handling too. And now in our state, the buyer has to fork over another 8% for sales tax that ebay automatically adds to the invoice. Legally, you do not owe sales tax on an occasional sale of a used item, but Ebay does not discern that for you. So you get stuck with it anyway.

[Hemi Joel]

Also, if your auctions get rated as "item not as described" they will charge you another 5%.
If they find your contact info in the auction, or you somehow otherwise provide your contact info to buyers, you will be charged an additional 5%.

[e philpott]

Brent , give me a email at ericphilpott@att.net , I’m interested in a TKX , shifter and clutch for the Fairlane

[AlanCasida]

Final value fees are now up to 10% on car parts, and you are charged on the shipping and handling too. And now in our state, the buyer has to fork over another 8% for sales tax that ebay automatically adds to the invoice. Legally, you do not owe sales tax on an occasional sale of a used item, but Ebay does not discern that for you. So you get stuck with it anyway.

I haven't sold anything on there in a long time but didn't it used to be like 4%.

[Blueoval77]

Man dont get me started , and they are forcing people to link bank accounts directly and all kinds of other ignorance....Personally im done with Epay... It was becoming quite the circus before this last straw... Scammers paradise.

[JamesonRacing]

Before ebay MasterCard, the charges were the ebay selling fees, then PayPal fees.  It's a single selling fee now, typically around 11% of the total.  Sales tax is applied to the total, based on the buyer's address.  The seller doesn't handle the sales tax, as ebay pays it to the state government. 

We all saw the sales tax charges coming....too much state revenue being bypassed with interstate sales to be sustainable.

One advantage with ebay is the shipping cost savings by shipping through ebay.  There's a lot of things I couldn't sell with "free shipping" without the reduced shipping cost.

[allrightmike]

There does seem to be a whiff of greed with ebay these days. As an example, I have an email watch for '60 Starliner used parts. What do I get? Key fobs, model cars, necker knobs, chevy parts,old oil cans and parts misrepresented as fitting a Starliner. Some search engine!

[gregaba]

I sold a set of heads for $1050.00 2 months ago. Ebay charged me $220 seller fee.
No more selling on there.
Greg

[machoneman]

I sold a set of heads for $1050.00 2 months ago. Ebay charged me $220 seller fee.
No more selling on there.
Greg

Wow, that is huge Greg! I'm amazed to hear all this as although I buy there, my gal sells dolls, doll clothes and other items on a drop ship basis. She's a very small time seller now but hopes to go bigger. Yet, I have seen that her margins are pretty small, perhaps due to these ridiculously high fees. Yeah, this will end up hurting them.

I had in the very distant past (20 years now?) sold a lot of Ford-related engine and trim parts on Used Racing Junk.com
Haven't even looked at that site in ages but it may be a good place to sell.

Maybe, for sellers here, a good idea to list all the fav non-E-Bay sites other might peruse for future sales. Ford, Merc, truck, performance websites? 

[jayb]

I used to sell all my products on ebay, now I only put the books up for sale there occasionally.  The fees are just too high.  I also have noticed recently that the prices on some of the new products are higher than they should be.  Used to be that some companies would buy products to resell and you could get a discount on them if you bought them on ebay, compared to buying them direct from the manufacturer.  But I recently bought some sheetmetal for my Fairlane Cobra, and getting it direct from AMD was about 10% cheaper than buying it on ebay. 

There are lots of people out there who favor convenience over value, and I think ebay is targeting those customers.  It is very easy to buy from that site, kind of like Amazon...

[blykins]

I just took everything off of Ebay.  Forget that. 

[garyv]

I've managed to clean out a lot of stuff over the last 2 years that I have no use for on Ebay but like everyone else the last thing I sold the
fees were way to high.   I have one item left and when it's gone I'm done.
I have been using Facebook marketplace with decent luck to sell stuff locally and no fees.

garyv

[gregaba]

I have sold on ebay since 2004 and it used to be an OK site except for the glitchs getting paid in the early days.
I will have to go back to Craigslist and deal with all the scamers but I did sell a good set of 351C heads there with no fees.
Greg

[Barry_R]

Facebook Marketplace is far better than Craigslist, but the functionality is so sketchy that it still makes ebay attractive.  If Facebook ever gets it's "poop in a group" it will eliminate ebay from the world...