Charged With Inflating eBay Prices

Over inflated shipping charges - The eBay Community

Sellers pay fees based on the total amount the buyer pays. This includes item price, shipping & handling costs and sales taxes paid by the buyer.

Solved: Inflated shipping costs? Is this fraud? - The eBay Community

No, it's not fraud. The shipping price is clearly visible on Ebay listings. If a seller wants to artifically inflate their ship cost all it does is hurt them.

eBay shipping policy in regard to excessive, overpriced, or inflated ...

If a $10 item has $100 shipping eBay charges fees on $110. It's been this way for years many states charge tax on the shipping as well. And eBay does not issue ...

eBay fees are ridiculous and make no sense : r/Flipping - Reddit

Pretend a seller deals with extremely high volume. The item is truly worth $0.99 and costs $5 to ship. The seller is honest and charges those ...

Are sellers allowed to inflate shipping charges or...

My question is, do bidders see that $ 0.50 handling fee as separate on the listing page? Or does ebay roll it into the calculated shipping fees? I know there ...

What's with the ridiculous shipping charges? : r/Ebay - Reddit

the lower cost and higher shipping is the seller trying to avoid ebay's percentage-based fees for the sale by making their money in the " ...

Solved: Ridiculously Overpriced Items and Shipping Fees

It appears there are many fraudulent accounts and items being sold on ebay. That is, the price for an item and shipping is unrealistically high.

Ebay is charging 50% final fees! How is that fair?

We all know they are not charging 50% and we all know that the fee is 13.25% of the total paid by the buyer. However, if you sell an item for $1.00 and the fees ...

Seller uses other accounts to inflate price - The eBay Community

What you have stated is mostly true. However, MANY times I have witness high volume sellers inflating their own prices. They have many listings of the same item ...

Buyer wants me to lower price and inflate shipping

Maybe their state doesn't charge sales tax on the shipping cost. Message 2 ... I guess if you don't consider having your eBay account suspended (Because it is ...

As sellers why are we being charged a percentage o...

Rather than driving yourself crazy about why a company charges for certain things just figure if you want to sell on Ebay it averages out to 15% cost. Unless ...

Solved: Outrageous shipping charges - The eBay Community

... charging outrageous shipping fees (examples: $30 S&H for a. ... So at a 10% sales tax rate and 12% FVF, inflating shipping cost saves you 1.2% in fees.

eBay fees are INSANITY! Am I the only one?

... charged me a 14.6% fee INCLUDING fees based on SHIPPING! ... Those inflated fees and shipping costs force sellers to raise prices, further alienating buyers.

Transaction fees - The eBay Community

It is customary for payment processors to charge their fee on the total payment. They aren't processing only part of the payment, they are processing the entire ...

Why is stuff so expensive on eBay now (I used to be able to get ...

There are two reasons: sellers play games and offer a low price realizing that some people won't investigate the shipping charges before they ...

Why does ebay take a percentage of the shipping cost as a fee?

If so, those fees (duty, sales taxes, service fee) appear to inflate the shipping charge although the money goes to an entirely different provider. Message ...

Final Value Fee includes shipping cost, Why? - The eBay Community

A deeper explanation is that, when eBay first started this site they charged their selling fee on only the item's selling price, the highest bid. But word got ...

Ebay Showing Different Prices For International Buyers

A lot of things happen when you use an Ebay site foreign to that of the seller. Prices are translated into local currency and that tends to be ...

eBay accused me of price gouging - The eBay Community

"Price gouging" seems to be eBay's blanket term for anything that violates their recent rules pertaining to the current COVID-19 pandemic. eBay's "Price gouging ...

9 eBay Seller Fees and How to Reduce Them - Crosslist

An insertion fee is one of eBay's most common listing fees and refers to the platform charge to upload a listing. eBay provides sellers with 250 ...