Made my first sale on eBay, now I'm confused by eBay final value fees

[bspes-f2ttqxod3m]

Hi there! I just recently made my first sale on eBay (hurrah!). A simple PS2 memory card, put up for sale during a promo for free insertion fees. The buyer paid a buy-it-now price of $10 with a shipping cost of $15.48 (Canada Post Expedited), of which it says on the Paypal invoice that eBay took a fee of $1.04. This is fine. I received an email today saying that an automatic payment had been made to eBay for the item I sold this month. I check the Paypal invoice and it says I've made another $2.68 payment ($1.05 final value fee + $1.63 final value fee on shipping). I'm confused why another payment was made when eBay already got a payment when the item sold? I tried looking at the faqs on final value fees but it still didn't make anything clear for me. It just seems now that I'm paying a lot of fees on something that didn't sell for that much in the first place. Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Spencer

[pjcdn2005 · Accepted solution]

For domestic sales, Paypal charges 2.9% of the total plus a .30 transaction fee so the $1.04 was a Paypal fee, not an ebay fee. Paypal fees for a sale to a US buyer is 3.7% . For other countries the fee is 3.9%.

In most categories, ebay charges a 10% final value fee on the item price and shipping. They are also required to charge gst or hst so in your case that would be 5% added to your fvf.  You are right though...fees can really add up. 

https://www.ebay.ca/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/selling-fees?id=4364&st=12&pos=1&query=Sellin...

[bspes-f2ttqxod3m · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot! I didn't realize that the first fee was a PayPal fee. This answers all of my questions 🙂