how come it was free now greedy charge to sell, excessive fees but in case it does not se

[luxt_crys]

 a small fee is fine but 100$ for a couple days is ridiculas will be usuing a different site in future

[femmefan1946]

Listing is 30 cents but there is a long running promotion that gives sellers 50 free listings every month

If eBay does its job and finds you a customer, they get fees.

In most categories that is 10% of the selling price PLUS 10% of the shipping price.

In addition if your customer's payment is processed by Paypal they will charge you 30 cents plus 2.9% of the payment.

If you were charged $100 as a selling fee, you must have sold something that your customer paid about $1000 (price+shipping) for.

It is also possible that you used a lot of different options --all of which are non-refundable and all of which, in my opinion, are useless.

The one that is least useful and less understood is Reserve on an auction, which will be charged even if the item does not sell.

If you list an auction with a starting bid of 99 cents and a Reserve of $1000 you will be charged $100 whether it sells or not.

If you list an auction with a starting bid of $1000 and it does not sell, you will be charged no fees at all. And no one can bid less than $1000 so the opening bid is a sort of reserve.

  for a couple days

Hmm- did you run a three day auction? Fees are higher for those because eBay discourages them. They were all too often used by scammers who would take the money and disappear. They are seen by very few bidders in the short time period. And buyers are already wary of new sellers with little feedback selling expensive items with little time to consider.

If none of these apply to you, leave the auction number and you may learn where you went wrong.

[ypdc_dennis]

The OP could have also been attempting to set up an auction with a high reserve of $2500 or more.

Another useless option costing "4% of reserve price Maximum charge of $100" -- when starting the auction at the minimum acceptable price (the reserve) is the far less annoying way to run an auction.

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[ypdc_dennis]

Ignore the previous comment, I see the OP was trying an eBay Motors "free" listing which has a completely different set of rules from the rest of the eBay.

The only thing "free" is the basic listing, everything else has costs.

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

with listing reserves being either $40 (under $75000) or $99 (over $75000)

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[tyler@ebay]

Hi everyone,

Due to the length of time that has passed since this thread began I have locked it from future replies. If this is still an issue that warrants discussion, don't hesitate to begin a new thread!