"By my calculations 6% of $3.00 is 18¢. Ebay charged me 4 x 5¢ for a total of 20¢."
Maybe not.
Take a good look at your monthly invoice. My understanding is that eBay would charge you $0.0450 for each listing although it shows as $0.05 on the invoice as everything is always rounded to two decimals.
When the fees are totaled, $0.0450 would be added four times.
"And how is anyone supposed to keep track of that"
It is up to you to keep track or not of half cent charges.
Is that really relevant to you? Do you really have to keep track of fractional cents in fees? For what purpose?
There all types of challenges on eBay. Keeping track of fractions of cents should not be one of them.
", they will make money out of the sellers pockets, above what they are entitled to."
They do NOT. Did you not understand my earlier post explaining how the fees are calculated?
If the selling price had been $0.74 (instead of $0.75), 6% would be shown as $0.04 (instead of $0.044)
Would you complain?
I spent more on liquor, in a lounge yesterday, than eBay will ever half cent at a time me.
Go ahead and save pennies. Tell me when you get a jar full. I collect dollars. It takes me way less effort to collect dollars than it does to collect pennies.
Micro-managers. Humph.
"....save pennies"
It has nothing to do with saving pennies.
It has to do with understanding how billing works instead of claiming "gauge" by eBay. And if one does not understand how things work, then a question should be asked instead of of claiming to be a victim.
It is becoming way too easy for sellers to blame eBay for all sins under the sun even when they have done nothing wrong. There is a lot of distrust and paranoia around here. Thread after thread after thread.
Sometimes I feel one would be better off without eBay than wasting so much time in frustration. eBay is only a venue to sell online. It is not for everybody and certainly not for every product. If it does not work.... time to move elsewhere.
@pierrelebel wrote:"....save pennies"
It has nothing to do with saving pennies.
It has to do with understanding how billing works instead of claiming "gauge" by eBay. And if one does not understand how things work, then a question should be asked instead of of claiming to be a victim.
It is becoming way too easy for sellers to blame eBay for all sins under the sun even when they have done nothing wrong. There is a lot of distrust and paranoia around here. Thread after thread after thread.
Sometimes I feel one would be better off without eBay than wasting so much time in frustration. eBay is only a venue to sell online. It is not for everybody and certainly not for every product. If it does not work.... time to move elsewhere.
Precisely Pierre.
What do I do? Rather than worry about part-cents, I worry about what I can do to maximize my profit, to me, by what I am doing, with my efforts, in my world, with what I can control.
I have found interesting ways to minimize costs, maximize profit, minimize effort, maximize ROI both in terms of time and money.
Parts of pennies? I like $30 wines. Majority of sellers are counting "parts of pennies", and losing money, while I am using parts of my dollars to enjoy the fruits of my labours.
"eBay is only a venue" and I use it as only such. I advertise there, and deal with the costs and benefits in my world.
So, I buy a widget for $6 and sell it for $100, I should obsess about a half of a penny? What is wrong with that picture!
Ya wanna save pennies? Set your thermostat back to 14C in the house for the winter. Flush your toilet every fifth time. Never take a vacation. Well, life means a little bit more to me than that.
