How much of a percentage does Ebay take on the shipping fee's.

[wackoshopper]

I realize that eBay charges sellers more than when I sold on here years ago but now I hear that they also charge you on the shipping that you get from the costumer  Is that correct and what percentage? 

[dmil8030]

It'll be the same.  The reason there is a fee on shipping now is because so many sellers were charging 99 cents for the item but $84 for shipping, thus paying fees on less than a buck.  Honest sellers who find those kinds of games distasteful would often lose out to those who do not.  So to make things as fair as possible for everyone, - fees for everything.  Here is a very thorough itemization all about seller fees:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/fees.html

And if you skip to the bit about how final value fees are calculated, there is an example of 9% and how that is charged for the total amount after the sale:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/fvf.html#how

[pjcdn2005]

The fee on shipping is the same percentage as the fee on that particular item. Different categories have different fees so that means that the percentage could be between 7.5% and 13%.