Selling charges are extreme! For the item worth C$1,420 I was charged C $447.78 !!!

[ivs_8886]

The item sold and my funds put on hold for 20 days!!! This never happened before! It does not worth to sell anything here! The problem with delivery - Canada Post extremely slow, tracking was late. Another problem  with shipping: if a customer pays for the shipping, when why do you charge my account for the same?

[reallynicestamps]

This is the watch?

First eBay as a Buyer Protection (and their own) puts a Hold on new and occasional sellers.

Until you've been selling for 90 days and sold 25 items your payments will be held until tracking shows delivered, or in 30 days if there's no tracking. They can hold the payment for the full 30 days if you're selling in a high risk category. 

Your selling fee will be 15% on a watch up to $1000, and 6.5% on the rest of your customer's payment.

Note that fees are based on the payment not on the selling price.

Payment includes shipping and the buyer's sales tax.

So to the $1420 (?) sale add what you charged for shipping and what the buyer paid in sales tax.

What was the total?

The fees should be 40c flat service fee.

On the first $1000, 15% or $150.

On the rest of your customer's payment, 6.5%.

You are paid the shipping fee by the customer, and you use that money to buy the shipping label.

Was shipping more than the $30.63 I see advertised on the listing?

This is not part of the $447.78 you paid in fees.

The buyer was charged sales tax by their government. This passed through the payment, but is not part of your fees.

Are you adding the sales tax as part of the fee? Don't.

Are you adding your shipping cost as part of the fee? Don't.

Did you opt for Promoted Listings? That was an option and your choice.

Did you opt for Promoted Listings at eBay's suggested percentage? That was an option and your choice.

Did you opt for Promoted Listings at the minimum 2%?

$447.78 is a lot more than the ~$183 I would have expected to be the fee on a $1420 +$30 shipping sale.