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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2450644, member: 27832&quot;]Whoa, slow down.</p><p><br /></p><p>The post you quoted is from <b>2005</b>. Around that time, eBay had raised their fees <i>by</i> 50-60%, not <i>to</i> 50-60%, and only on certain kinds of auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years now, eBay&#039;s seller Final Value Fees have been <b>10%</b> of the final price (including shipping and handling). If you&#039;re going to be selling a lot, you can open an eBay Store, and get lower rates -- 6% on coins, I believe. You lose around another 3% of the total to PayPal fees, so the final hit is around 13%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, life was better for sellers when final value fees were 5% or less, but those days are long gone. (So are the days when FVF didn&#039;t include shipping costs, and sellers could leave negative feedback on abusive buyers, and PayPal kept your balance in a money-market account that yielded 5%. And when you could buy gold for under $400 an ounce.)</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay&#039;s current policies make some people reluctant to sell there, including me. But plenty of people are still making plenty of money there. I&#039;m not sure the answer is to sell on a third-tier online auction where the fees are 5% (or 0%), but the audience is a hundred times smaller, and final bids are 20% or 40% or 90% lower than the prevailing eBay price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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