@aramatic wrote:Perhaps someone has already answered this question, but I haven't found it. Will eBay now base their final value fee on the total of item price+shipping+taxes? I hope not. Charging a fee for a service that isn't provided (shipping) is bad enough, but a tax on a tax??
The base amount for fee calculations has included Sales Tax since July of 2020.
With PayPal, their fee portion included Sales Tax since 2016 (or 2017 don't remember exactly).
eBay fees are NOT a "tax" and what matters is the amount of the fees not how they are calculated.
@aramatic wrote:Fee, tax, surchage, call it what you like. It's a charge on top of a charge and has nothing to do with the service eBay (or anyone else) provides. Including shipping in the final value fee is already unscrupulous; we don't need another money grab. The government's grab is legal, eBay's is just greed.
Would you feel better if eBay stopped using tax for the fee base and instead raised the fee percentage by 2%?
You are selling an old calculator for $10, I think it should be $5.....must be GREED!
@ccm005 wrote:I remember when I started ebay fees were only like 2.75% or something like that. I guess they provide the platform, and we use it for monetary gain so when that kind of situation happens, everyone wants their cut. Us old timers built ebay from the start and now they want to screw us all. The biggest sham is, most of the merchadise on ebay is second hand or used and there is supposed to be NO TAX on used goods. I suppose it's the service they are technically providing, but we the sellers and buyers provide the REAL service. Class Action maybe?? When I started ebay back in 2002, they were still putting up substantial profit so I am tending to agree with one of the posters......ebay greed!
On what planet is that true?
Not in Canada, Not in any country on planet earth that I am aware of.
@byto253 wrote:Yup, government legislation triggered the collection of HST, even from sellers that are sub $30k in sales but eBay's interests are aligned as it provides a nice little back door fee increase for them.
It's a small amount, eBay has always gotten a cut of the GST/HST I've charged, same goes for all the major sellers on eBay and while that represents a small(ish) number of sellers it does represent the bulk of the Dollar volume of goods sold on eBay.
On the downside for eBay, if collecting GST/HST is such a horrible thing that it's going to chase buyers away that would cost eBay more than the amount by which fees go up.
there is supposed to be NO TAX on used goods.
Tell that to Sally Ann--
when I started ebay fees were only like 2.75% or something like that.
When I opened my first account in 1998, we paid upfront for every listing and every picture. That fee was non-refundable.
And there were no Fixed Price sales.
Later there were Stores, but they were not in Search and only appeared if there were not "enough" Auction listings in the category.
While we were allowed to accept personal cheques, cash, or money orders, eBay had no way to determine if the payment had been made and no way to force shipping of the product until they came up with BillPoint at the turn of the millennium.
Fees dropped over the next five or ten years, but have started to creep up to those early levels.
