Ebay Sellers Fees?
 

Just wondering how much ebays sellers fees are?
The reason beeing I am buying my PDA off ebay and I was planning on buying the Ipaq 2110/2115 and by accident I have gone and bid on the 1940/1945 (a far inferior model). Im hoping to try and get out of it by paying the sellers fees for the item. from what I hear the sellers fees are dynamic based on the starting amount, length of auction & final amount of item. The Item started at £1, 1 day listing and finished at £107 + £29.99 delivery (US import)
any ideas? or can somebody show me the formula for working it out and I will do it myself?

EDIT: it also appears the seller has described the product wrong, could I get out of the transaction on these grounds?

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i think you can (maybe, best check ebay help if you havent already) get out of it.... as for the seller fees though, they are only going to come to about £3-£4... i think i had something like £3 fees to pay when i auctioned off my jukebox zen... got £200 for that.

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if its desctibed wrong then you should be able to get out of it, try speaking to the seller telling him that you have this loophole so he will back out

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Listing fee = £0.20
Final Value Fee= 5.25% of £29.99 + 3.25% of £77.01

Also bear in mind that if they enhanced the auction in other ways there will be extra costs:
Homepage featured- £49.95
Featured Plus- £9.95
Highlight- £1.50
Subtitle- £0.50
Bold- £0.75
Gallery- £0.15
Gallery Featured- £15.95
Slide Show £0.60
Buy it now- £0.06
Scheduled Listing £0.12

Also, if the item was listed in more than one category, insertion fees and upgrade prices will be doubled.

hth
MB

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Thats Reasuring, thanks, I'm just hoping the seller will be reasonable.

After a further look at the product it is misleading rather than all out wrong, basicly in the main description it says it is WiFi capable, but further down in the detailed description it says it is WiFi capable with the addition of a WiFi SDIO card (Not included) so it actually isnt WiFi capable. I didnt see that, but still technicly the description isnt incorrect (If somewhat misleading).

Thanks for that, would it be possible to tell any of that from seeing the Item itself?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MEWN:IT <--thats it

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If you have bid on something by mistake then AFAIK you can just retract it. Ebay do not consider this a problem unless you start doing it a few times, in which case they will become suspicious that you are abusing the system (this assumes of course that the auction has not ended).

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Auction has ended sadly :( , Though I did not see an option to retract a bid before hand.

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I see on the guys feed back that many of these products are refurbished and people did not know.. :erm:

Feedback reports

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Thanks for your help so far people. How do you think I should handle this next part? you see I havent told him any of this yet and to be honest im not sure what to say, should I lie and say somebody placed the bid for me in error but im still willing to pay the sellers fees? (To try and make him sympathise) or should I be completeley honest?
I really dont like doing this, I have never been a non-paying bidder before and I dont like doing this, I have always believed that even if bought in error you should take responsability, and if the item was similar I would but It cant do more than half the things I need it to so its just not acceptable to me. Still don't like doing this though :(

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[QUOTE=ZrByte]Just wondering how much ebays sellers fees are?
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...are%3F&spell=1

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It has a subtitle... there was no slide show or gallery addons (first picture is free) but without seeing the listing in the category itself, i can't think of a way of telling what other extras they have used.

If it appeared in the top section of the category listing, then it was featured... and if it was on the homepage then it was homepage featured... Highlighted auctions and purple backgrounds on the listing page, and bold is... well i won't patronise you ;) Buy it now was not used by the look of things.

And finally... it was only listed in one category :)

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Ive just been looking through that myself :) , I noticed that a lot of people have said that too, though he did make it clear in the description for the one I bid on by accident, I was aware of this and it wasnt a problem for me. It is a little worrying though that he didnt mention the need for an adaptor to convert the AC for use on UK mains, and I didnt see any mention of the absurdly long delivery times (Longest ive seen in his feedback was over 20 days).

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[QUOTE=mnorris]Thanks, didnt even think of that, though I always come here for help first :)

It wasnt in the featured section (Thankfully) though I dont remember if it was listed on the homepage. Thanks for the rest of the info though, very helpful with regards to paying his sellers fees.

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Ah hah... if it was not featured, then it wasn't homepage featured either, because they appear at the very top of the category :)

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:dozey: NO worries thats what we are all here for TO HELP AND GIVE different points of view :tu:

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Why does every thing you post on here contain a google link? :confused: :erm:

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when you know where your going I will tell you:o

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1) You can retract a bid you have placed if you put it in error.
Eg. You typed £99.50 instead of £9.50, or you realise you bid on the wrong item, etc.
Bids can be retracted right up to the last 1 hour of that auction.
More info and the place to retract your bid can be found here:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/que...tract-bid.html



2) Ebay seller fees vary according to 2 things:

a) The amount the item is listed at.

b) The finishing price the item goes for.


So lets say you place your item at auction with a starting price of 99p you will be charged 15p. If you start it at £5.50 you will be charged slighly higher, eg. 30p.

There is a chart detailing costs here:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/account/fees.html

You are then charged a set percentage on top depending on what price your item finishes at.

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When you have something useful to post please do, otherwise don't waste everyones time posting stupid remarks and constant links to google.

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By the way, you're going to have to pay duty and VAT on this beastie too. It's shipping from outside the EU.

I'd write to the seller and just be honest. Tell them you were bidding on the wrong item by mistake, you're very sorry, you'll pay their listing fees for it to be relisted.

Better still, offer to pay the difference between what you bid and the next lowest bidder. He can send them a second chance offer as you don't want it.

By the way, it was technically listed wrong, as the headline says it includes WLAN, so you could use this to your advantage if need be.

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I realised this shortly after I realised I had bid on the wrong one, Ive now ordered the correct one and its beeing delivered from Pontefract, much better im sure you'll agree :) .

Ive mailed him and offered just that, ive tried to be as honest as possible, ive also asked that in light of my offer to pay his sellers fees that he doesnt leave negative feedback. (Hopefully he wont leave any)

Hadnt thought of that, only £5 difference, not that bad if it comes to that.

Yeah I noticed that, though if you read down a bit further it says "Wireless ready with the addition of SDIO WLAN 802.11b card*" so technically he didnt lie, though he was missleading.

EDIT: By the way your all getting green reps, thanks for your help, though you will have to wait until I get back from work ;)

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After reading this thread i went to the Ebay website & did some further reading (especially on the selling part) Ebay takes their payment depending on how the seller displays his/her advert, the seller is also encouraged to use Paypal which when used depending on the final closed auction price & also takes a slice of the pie so to speak, its a wonder the seller has anything left.

I noticed looking at alot of the ebay selling adverts most sellers leaving out the option to pay using Paypal even on the buyer winning the sale using small amounts as low as -£13.

Surely everything sold on Ebay should be classed as secondhand regardless of whether its been used or not opened?

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It's only the same as a high-street retailer taking credit cards....

The seller might pay to advertise their products (eBay is far cheaper than most other advertising methods) then when you go any buy your product and pay by your card, the retailer is charged a percentage of the price. They rarely pass this extra cost on to you, unless they're travel agencies.

And of course we all have a choice whether to take PayPal or even use eBay in the first place. Personally I've found it a good way of getting rid of a pile of stuff I no longer want. I'm not one for car boot sales and you will invariably get more money for selling on eBay.

The truth about Ebay
 

I am sick of hearing how wonderful Ebay is and i think it's time people knew the truth about this evil company. I successfully sold a few things on Ebay and decided to become a full time seller. I bought a job lot of DVD's from a reputable dealer and started advertising them on the site. As soon as i received payment i posted the DVD and nobody waited longer than two days. My feedback was excellent. After two weeks i had 26 positives and a 100% record. Then one day i logged in to find my account had been suspended. The reason Ebay gave me was that they had received a complaint that i was selling fake goods. This of course was utter nonsense, all my goods were genuine. So who complained? certainly none of my customers and Ebay were not letting on. I received an e-mail asking me to send a copy of my bank statement and my passport to prove my identity. Exactly how this proves my goods are genuine i have no idea but as i had invested a considerable amount of money in stock and had no other way of selling it i reluctantly sent the information and waited, and waited, and waited for my account to be reinstated. After three weeks i complained and received a standard reply e-mail (don't you just hate that?) with bills coming in and a nagging wife telling me to get rid of the DVD's that were taking up all our spare room i took the decision to register in a different name and start selling again. I opened a new bank account and used a friends address. For three weeks everything was going well. I had started from scratch and built up another 100% record this time with 51 positives. I was earning, Ebay were earning and my customers were happy, but Ebay couldn't leave well alone. They suspended my account again. This time because someone with the same name had been suspended and it might be me, ok it was me, but how the hell could they possibly know that? there are about 50 miles between my address and the friend i used and two different bank accounts. I told them i had no choice but to register as a new user because they had taken so long to reinstate me. They wouldn't listen and have now banned me for life. I now have £2000 worth of DVD's that i can't sell, QXL and ebid are a waste of time. Ebay are the only auction site people use. A few other things you should know about this evil company, they charge an insertion fee for each item, they then charge a fee if the item sells and they charge again when people pay through Paypal, yes Paypal is owned by Ebay. They are also very reluctant to disclose exactly what these fees are. Go to their help page and type in "how much are seller fees" and you will get a list of ways to pay, without any mention of how much. Ebay are evil and the sooner someone publicly shows the truth about them the better. I have just received a bill for £123 sellers fees. Now i know they are taking the p**s

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:welcome: to the site


what you need to realise here is reselling dvd's unless of course you have permissions is a breach of copyright and even if the goods were genuine,you would be breaking the law

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It's not a breach of copyright. I bought them from a wholesaler to sell retail. I have been a market trader for 20 years and always bought my stock from wholesalers.

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They don't make money by banning customers. None of my customers had a bad word to say about me and many of them bought several times. Ebay banned me because of one complaint from someone who remains annonymous, i am sure this person was not one of my customers because anyone with a brain would first complain to me as the seller if they were not happy and i did not receive any requests for a refund. Surely the sensible thing to do would have been for Ebay to buy a DVD from me using an alias and have it checked. That way they would know my merchandise is genuine.

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Did you by any chance use the same computer to create the second account that you used to create the first account, carry out your sales and email ebay to ask what was going on? If so they would simply have seen the same IP address against 2 accounts that were registered in different names.
Ebay isn't the quickest at reacting to and dealing with complaints properly at times, unfortunately by opening the second account you gave them an excuse to close you down immediately. I suppose you could appeal the original account suspension but they may still refuse you access to ebay again over the 2nd account.
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Dunno if it's still valid but this number was listed for Ebay last year
0700 500 3229
More info here
http://upce.toffee.net/

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Purenuman - This is part of the problem, people assume Ebay must be right just because they are a big company. There is nothing more to tell. They say there was only one complaint, but as i said, nobody asked for a refund so it couldn't have been one of my customers.

Paul - I use two computers at home and one at my sisters and one at my daughters so i suppose e-mails and listings must at some point have come from the same computer for both accounts. I gave them three weeks to reinstate my first account which i think is more than reasonable. As i intended to make my Ebay trade my main source of income i simply can't afford to wait ages for them to sort themselves out so i had to open a new account.

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Do you have a licence to sell retail dvd's then? And was you intending to pay vat seeing as you bought them wholesale?
If the answer honestly is no to either of these questions then in reality you were breaking the law and got your fingers burnt,I do not say I agree or disagree with this just stating fact

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Something else to be careful of is running a company or business from a residential property without checking with the local authorities as to if it is allowed.
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg...cId=1073960216

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I am a licenced trader although this does not specifically cover DVD's. Whether or not i pay VAT is no concern of Ebay's as they are not liable for my tax debts. As i own my home i do not have to obey any tenancy restrictions.

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Follow Pauls link and then tell us you do not have to follow the rules

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No, but you have to be aware of any local government rules and legislations that may impact your use of a residential property for commercial activities.
From the link in my above post
All of which is nothing to do with your problem with Ebay but it is something you need to keep in mind for your own protection (you never know when a neighbour may complain to the local council).
Anyway, have you tried contacting Ebay to try and appeal against the original suspension (which led to your subsequent ban) via any means other than the obviously over stretched email system?

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Ebay have an address in Ireland which i wrote to but that was two weeks ago and so far they have not replied. They flatly refuse to discuss the matter on the phone. It is my intention to eventually do the bulk of my business from home but that is a long term goal and before i commit to it fully i will have to sustain a minimum weekly income for several months and also have at least two reliable sources of trade. Ebay are obviously not worthy of consideration any more. I am thinking about starting my own website to sell from and hopefully someone with sufficient funds will start a rival auction site which will make Ebay realise they need to treat people properly if they want to stay in business.

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As you have already mentioned, Ebay is pretty much the main place online for this sort of enterprise so setting up your own online site would require you getting a site together that looks professional but is easy to alter (for when you need to change your stock lists), then you will need to advertise it. Now most people will set theire sites up and then use Ebay to promote it by throwing some auctions onto the site at regular intervals to drum up interest and to get their site links onto DVD sale pages. Since Ebay have already tracked you once it's likely that you won't be able to use them to promote your site unless you can iron out the dispute with them. If not then you may want to look at using QXL to raise your sites traffic and maybe look at getting yourself listed on Google, Yahoo etc so that your site scores well on searches for DVD sales.
Aren't there government departments set up to help people get off the ground so to speak when starting their own small businesses? Failing that most banks have a small business advisor who can lead you through the pitfalls and help you get a full and proper business plan together so that you can see clearly what is ahead of you.

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Getting the site known is probably the hardest part. I thought Ebay and QXL banned links to websites. I remember a few months ago i tried placing a link from my QXL ad to the imdb site so people could read about the films. QXL removed it and threatened to ban me if i did it again. I have no idea why this is not allowed as it saves me a lot of work. They also ban sending e-mail and website addresses in replies to questions from members.

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The best form of advertisement on an auction site is a good reputation for quality goods and no reports of failure to deliver etc. Do either of the sites stop you from having a link to your site in your profile? That's the easiest and best way to promote interest in your site, someone buys from you or likes the dvds you are selling, they look in your profile and see the link, link gets clicked and the buyer now knows where your site is and the full scope of your DVD stock. failing that you can always use your site name (example dvdsales uk) as the account name like here EBAY link.
The search engine scoring can be affected by use of keywords in the HTML of the site, good use of HTML coding can make a big difference in your listing on a search engine.
After that you can always try getting yourself listed on free directory services and sites local to you, build up your custom locally as well as further afield.

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This is something i will have to look into. I had considered making a site and promoting it with adverts in Loot and free newspapers but the cost of advertising is ridiculous. Link exchanges are a possibility but there is a lot of competition in the DVD business and nobody wants new people coming in.