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getyouritemfast · ‎03-10-2016

I was charged 10% on the item that I sold, on top of it another 19.44CAD on paypal?

Is this normal?

Why different and so much fees? Iam very disappointed... around 86CAD (ebay+paypa)l fees on a 660CAD sale...

esclyons · ‎03-10-2016

that sounds about right 10% for ebay and 3 % plus .30 cents per transaction. for paypal, roughly without a store you pay approx. 13% in fees. 13% of 660$ =85.80

nan*55 · ‎03-10-2016

Yes that sound right.

pjcdn2005 · ‎03-10-2016

It's a good idea to know what the fees are before you list.

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

http://www.fees.ebay.ca/feeweb/feecalculator

femmefan1946 · ‎03-11-2016

It's unlikely, given the population of the Territories, but you cannot charge extra for shipping there beyond what you have advertised in your shipping and handling.

Besides, customers using mobile devices are unlikely ever to see that addition to your description. Phone buyers tend to be impulse buyers (which is good!) and go by photo, title and price alone.

To cover these costs you either have to raise your asking price to allow for the occasional Northern sale, or have a lower asking price and use Calculated Shipping.

Calculated Shipping is available when you use the Advanced Sell Your Item form.

Use metric measurements. Canada Post went metric in 1974 and everything else is guesstimating.

pocomocomputing · ‎03-11-2016

@femmefan1946 wrote:
It's unlikely, given the population of the Territories, but you cannot charge extra for shipping there beyond what you have advertised in your shipping and handling.
Besides, customers using mobile devices are unlikely ever to see that addition to your description. Phone buyers tend to be impulse buyers (which is good!) and go by photo, title and price alone.

To cover these costs you either have to raise your asking price to allow for the occasional Northern sale, or have a lower asking price and use Calculated Shipping.
Calculated Shipping is available when you use the Advanced Sell Your Item form.
Use metric measurements. Canada Post went metric in 1974 and everything else is guesstimating.

I would not call it guesstimating. I would call it conversion over sizing.

The eBay Sell Your Item form uses whole numbers for the dimensions and weight fields. When entering the data, you are supposed to round up to the next whole unit, an inch or a cm, an ounce or a gram.

An inch is 2.54 times the size of a cm so it is a crude measure. An ounce is 28 grams so it is a crude measure.

In real life outside ebay, the imperial (pounds,ounces, feet inches) is just as accurate as the metric system ( kg, grams, cm).

However, inside eBay and PayPal, because their systems use whole units, metric is more accurate than imperial because of their implementation. If ebay allowed decimals for inches and ounces, then they would both work accurately.

So when you measure a package that is 8.2 x 6.7 x 4.5 inches it is rounded up to 9 x 7 x 5 inches. The same package measured in cm is 20.8 x 17.0 x 11.4 would be rounded up to 21 x 17 x 12 cm. The 9 x 7 x 5 when shown in cm would be 22.9 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm which has added a cm or two to the measured 21 x 17 x 12 cm. The package increased in size when inches are used! When using a shipping service with volumetric weight overrides, the small difference in dimensions might make the item jump a weight class and have a higher shipping cost needlessly.

Same for weight. A package weighing 8.6 ounces would be rounded up to 9 ounces. But 8.6 oz = 244 g and 9 oz = 255 g. Oops, passed the 250 g weight break for Small Packet, Tracked Packet, have to pay more for shipping cost.