What's up with paying selling fees on the buyers tax?

[tryubik-useonlyasdirected]

I get why we pay seller fess on item price and shipping charged but shouldn't the sales tax, something between ebay and the state the buyer comes from be paid by eBay? It's independant to the sellers transaction.

a minimalist example:

[john_koenig99]

Don't even get me started...It's absolutely ridiculous, but it's their site and their rules, so...We can just take it or leave it. 

[byto253]

This has been posted and discussed and ranted at many times.  It is just a backdoor fee increase, and it is not going away.  Easiest way to keep your sanity is to look at the total selling cost, including the fee on taxes, and decide it if makes sense to list on eBay or/and what items to list on eBay.

[itolduandso]

It's lesser of the evels. It's walk in the park. I happily suck up the selling fees on tax compared to what I need to suck up now. A year ago I thought I am sweating, now I appreciate that good live I live 12 months ago.

[msau4301]

"A year ago I thought I am sweating, now I appreciate that good live I live 12 months ago."

Ditto for me!

[marnotom!]

eBay bases its Final Value Fees on the total transaction value, and sales taxes add to the transaction value; they are not independent of it as they are charged at Checkout.  (Just be grateful that duties and tariffs aren't part of the transaction value.)  eBay actually dropped the FVF percentages slightly when they introduced this.

It's a bit like credit card processors charging their fees as a percentage of the transaction value.  If you go to a restaurant, the restaurant will be paying FVF on the meal, any taxes associated with the meal, and your tip if you add that to your credit card payment instead of paying it in cash.

As @byto253 says, it makes more sense to see if the total of the fees you're paying is realistic before getting overly concerned about how the fees are calculated.

[byto253]

Well, we revisit old threads and responses. 😁😎  As I have said before, 13.5% as a fee to handle the cash for remitting tax funds is a loan shark rate that credit cards would love to be able to get.  Ergo, in my view, most of it is a back door fee increase.

[reallynicestamps]

As @marnotom! pointed out, the practice of charging fees on the entire purchase, without breaking it down, is Standard Practice in the payment processing industry and goes back to the invention of the credit card by Diners Club back in the 1950s.

And every credit card does it.

Moneris was our processor when we had a shop, and we paid them fees on purchase price, shipping charges,international fees, and sales taxes when anyone used Visa or MasterCard.

I am not sure whether debit cards were included in that although I suspect they were, and at that time (we closed in 2014) etransfers were not a thing.

https://go.moneris.com/choosemonerisgo?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_id=mar-25-014-1738000&ut...