Sellers Guide to eBay Fees

eBay is not a free service.  The fees you pay when you list an item, and when a sale closes, are what give you the right to sell your merchandise on eBay, and they’re used to pay the expenses involved in maintaining the marketplace.  That said, fees are generally charged on a sliding scale based on the category of the item you’re selling, the opening value of the item and the final sales price.  If you use one of the sales options like Buy It Now, Fixed Price, or Dutch Auction, the fees may change a bit.  There are also fees determined by how you list your item on the system, such as number of photographs or style upgrades.

 You’re probably thinking, “That sounds like an awful lot of fees, Greg—why should I give eBay so much of my money?”  What you are paying for is “exposure”.  Please understand that eBay gets at least a billion page views per day and about $2,000.00 in goods changes hands every second. 

 That’s why eBay is worth what it charges: it gets you exposure most other sites can’t match, which is more likely to result in your getting a higher price for your items up front, and thus a greater profit after fees.  The system works for me, and I ask you to believe that it can and will work just as well for you. 

 Most people know that getting traffic to a website is a major challenge.  eBay makes that part of it easy – and you pay them to do it!