I'm a new seller and I was under the impression that when I sell items I am not charged for anything. But I was billed for shipping.

[marg_myerscough]

My item was sold for only $1.30 but I got charged for a shipping fee. I thought as a new seller the first 50 auctions are free?

[ok_so_im_50]

You do not charged an insertion fee for the first 50 items per month. You are charged a final value free on all sold items.

Thanks to unscrupulous sellers who had 99 cent starting prices with $200 shipping to avoid fees, ebay decided to punish all sellers by making everyone pay a final value fee on shipping as well as the final price of the item.

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

[007steveb16]

You get to "list" them for free, that is all that is free.