eBay fees are too high

Yes I totally agree, a total rip off. Just sold an item in Feb 2010 it sold for £201 I had a reserve and a BIN price of £275. I felt a little disapointed it only made 201 but it was above the reserve... just.
The ebay bill just came £25.62 (10% FVF), then Paypal took another £7.74 WHY payal are owned by Ebay or vise versa. I could have taken it to a local shop and sold it for what I ended up with. I will not sell anything else on ebay. I have a load of things (low value) but by the time I have wasted time listing them and losing most of it in fees I may as well throw them in the bin and get on with some a little more interesting instead!

Agree with the above. E bay fees just too high. I did look at using E bid who are much more reasonable but you just dont get the number of viewers. But am now only using E bay for things I can't sell locally or advertise for free in our regional free ad paper where I can sell things cheaper and still get a higher return. The more of us who do this the sooner ebay/paypal will drop their charges.

Well Jasoin, when it rolls into motion I'll take a look and let you and pass you my verdict.

Kind regards,

I learn a new web will launch, it got all auction function and buy it now, and they ask for no listing and final fee for life, what you have to do is make a very little cash rebate like min 0.50 usd to this network, sound like a very good idea.

I learn a new web will launch, it got all auction function and buy it now, and they ask for no listing and final fee for life, what you have to do is make a very little cash rebate like min 0.50 usd to this network, sound like a very good idea.

I sell a lot of clothes on Ebay and they are quality clothes. Nearly all are classed as barely used but they are clean and pressed.

I undercharge on postage worldwide as this is the attraction to my items, besides being of top quality garments.

So, I sell quality clothes with cheap postage. I'm not greedy but it's nice to see a shirt start at 99 Pence and close at £15.97.

The world is indeed full of stupid people. They are all still buying goods from Ebay! I have noticed a vast increase in the number of listings that are substantially above the prices on, say, Amazon, and that site is selling the goods themselves with a full UK warranty! Ebay were forced to suspend their advertising campaign on how cheap things were on Ebay. The absolute truth was that people did little research into the prices charged and were being repeatedly ripped off. Take for instance a piece of software I recently sold. Amazon charge £55 for a sealed copy. On Ebay the charge was £70 for an opened customer return! And the seller had already found two suckers willing to part with their cash!!! Until Ebay embrace an RRP comparison for all their items, as Amazon do, prices will escalate to the point that people will be paying more for goods on Ebay than on the high street from authorized distributors. Perhaps high prices go hand in hand with high fees? Personally I believe Ebay has become an absolute rip off both in terms of the prices asked and the fees paid. Funny that higher prices mean higher profits for Ebay... However they fly in the face of a site that promotes itself on value retailing - low prices and volume sales. Buyers, as well as sellers, need to wake up. There will be tears when the bubble bursts and Ebay collapses!

All you people that moan about Ebay and use it. Stop using it and if you aren't aware of their policies and rules before you use their platform then this is your own fault.

The world is full of stupid people.

Too true I have just sold a few bits and was not aware of the massive hike in ebays fess to 10% thhen with paypal adding another 4% thats 14% cost, outragous charges they can forget it I am looking at alternative sites that are not so greedy!

Thank god, I do found out this web who is talking about what I am thinking. I always want to complain about this. I got lots of buyers love bargaining items. It is not the pictures can be earned the good price. It is the original price, we can't make it lower prices to the customers. If we want to sell out the product asap, we have to give out the price cheaper and pay by ourself of the insertion fees, Final Value, pictures, galleries, title....paypal and postage. (that mean you are working for EBAY) Also the new policy is unfair to the sellers. As EBAY said to protect the high shipping fees issue, they are going to set it up the shipping fees. I just wonder, are you going to charge us the same % of the final value? or EBAY is going to give us a discount? I think the item start from 0.99 for free insertion fees which is too low. This is absolutely giving a EBAY good excuses to earn more...poor our sellers, buyers thought we are greedy. The greedy one is EBAY not the sellers. Got so many things unsatisfying..... Anyway I stop selling my stuffs at EBAY.
Thanks Host giving this topic.

Even worse for me. Here's the case:
purchased for £-6.89
sold BIN for £14.99 (incl. free shipping)
this seems like super £8.10 profit
now let's do the math:
listing -0.75
final value -1.48
paypal -0.78
shipping -2.25
and now we have £2.84 profit
taking into account the fuel costs (about 2.00 to purchase the item first and later take it to the post office), I have made a super profit less than £1.00 (about 7%) on item listed for 14.99 with more than 120% of initial margin

Fuc ebay and paypal on their robbing fees on seller. Because buyers like to pay with free quick paypal fucing make more money that way.!!!