FEES, including taxes for selling Canada to the U.S. hit almost 20% of actual selling price of item | Selling

shallow_karl · 2025-06-07T23:04:00.584000Z

A $100 item shipped for $25.00 to the U.S. will incur fees of around $24.62 (19.7%) because despite the blamket claim of 13.6% fees on "selling" prices, the fees levied on shipping, foreign shipments and taxes (both paid by customer and seller) boost the actual cost of selling to 20%. It works out better for costlier items, as cheap items are hit harder and cheap items carry the same listing cost as higher-priced items. Must make it hard for commodity-based products with lower prices and low margins to be profitable at all?Add-on the percentage charged when Ebay sends money to a bank, converting it from U.S. to Canadian and including the listing prices, the percentage is even higher. I wonder if Ebay will add another fee if they have to collect tariffs?

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FEES, including taxes for selling Canada to the U.S. hit almost 20% of actual selling price of item | Selling | eBay Canada EN