To benefit both buyers and sellers and further elevate ebay as the destination of choice for musical instruments ebay has announced a reduced final value fee fvf the final charge to sellers when an item is sold of 3 5 percent for guitars basses and guitar accessories e g amps pedals effective immediately. After your auction or fixed price listing ends ebay charges the final value fee to your account in a matter of minutes.

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After that the fee is a straightforward 30 per listing.

What percent does ebay take. This fee does not apply to above standard and ebay top rated sellers if your rate of item not as described return requests is evaluated in your service metrics as very high in one or more categories you will be charged an additional 5 on the standard final value fees for sales in those categories. What you are seeing is the payment that was made after paypal took their 2 9 out of the payment. Paypal charges you 3 4 of the total sale for sales of less than 1 500 plus 20p per transaction.

For most sellers it s 10 or lower. Paypal reduces the percentage for larger sales you can find the full list here. Sellers with a basic ebay account pay a 10 final value fee for most items with a 750 maximum 12 for books dvds movies and music with a 750 maximum 2 for select business and industrial categories with a 300 maximum and 3 5 for musical instruments and gear with a 350 maximum.

If you don t have an ebay store you are entitled to 50 free listings per calendar month beginning at 12 00 00am pacific time on the first day of each month and ending at 11 59 59 pm pacific time on the last day of the month. That means the listings are free of insertion fees. Ebay takes like 10 and thats including shipping which is odd they take that including what the buyer pays for their shipping like 10 percent of the total.

They have to pay for employees and operation of the site. Very little is free on ebay. I am floored though to find out paypals take.

If your item sells you pay ebay 9 of the selling price to a maximum of 50 00. Also known as selling fees they re a percentage of an item s total sale price. Final value fees on auctions are pretty easy to figure out.