PST on ebay fees effective Jan 1, 2023

Summary: ez2curgr8 observed that starting January 1, 2023, eBay began charging an additional 7% fee, which they believe is the Provincial Sales Tax (PST), in addition to the 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) for their province. They are questioning whether this practice is correct since PST typically applies to tangible goods and related services. ez2curgr8 feels that eBay should have issued a bulletin about this change since it affects sellers nationwide. pjcdn2005 acknowledged the concern, suggesting that there should have been an announcement, and asked for an example of where this fee is being seen. snoopwiz inquired whether this charge pertained to a sale or shipment within Canada, and marnotom! noted that a similar topic had been posted elsewhere on the eBay community platform.

I just noticed effective Jan 1, 2023 ebay is charging an additional 7% on fees not just the correct 5% GST in my province. I can only think 7% is PST. From my PST knowledge I understand PST is charged on tangible goods (can touch) and services to tangible items except for legal fees. Is this correct and if so why has there not been a bulletin since this would be a Canada wide impact? Is ebay thinking the ebay fees which i consider to be 'administrative fees' as forming the cost of the tangible item sold where they correctly charge both GST/PST? An ebay rep was based in Filipinnes then I got transferred to a guy in the US so both knew absolutely nothing. What is going on ebay as there should be some justification if you are going to charge sellers more.