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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2221425, member: 15929&quot;]Kinda.</p><p><br /></p><p>PayPal charges 2.9% + .30 per transaction on the entire amount that the seller receives. That entire amount includes the sales price, any shipping fee&#039;s &quot;charged by the seller&quot; and any Sales Taxes collected.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay, on the other hand, charges the seller a Final Value Fee on the final sales price AND a separate Final Value Fee on the Shipping charges that the seller collects from the Buyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for the Final Value Fee on the Sellers Shipping charge is that a lot of sellers (and some still do it) will put an item up on eBay for .99 cents and then charge the buyer $19.95 for shipping and handling.</p><p>Under the old eBay fee structure, the seller would pay a minimum Final Value Fee for the item sold and not a single nickel on the Shipping Values charged to the buyer.</p><p>The buyer, would get all pissed off because s/he didn&#039;;t read the fine print and the seller would just walk off with more money than if the item was sold for $19.95 with $1.00 charged for shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, since eBay and PayPal work hand in hand with regard to shipping, I see absolutely NO REASON for eBay to continue this &quot;money grab&quot; for sellers that charge reasonable shipping and handling as the amounts paid for generating the shipping label are right there for eBay to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, it&#039;s a criminal money grab and I do not like it one bit as it does impact my bottom line. But not there&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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