Ebay Fees

In my opinion, they are unbelievably complicated!  I have at times studied the charts and still come up with the wrong answer.   You have to know what category your item belongs in.  If you have a store and sell an item at auction it is a different price from if you don't have a store. The insertion fees vary depending on whether you have a store, type of listing  and type of store.  You have to scroll all the way down on the ebay charts to make sure you are seeing all the variables.

Take the time to figure things out.   Don't forget to add on the  30 cents per transaction and 2.9% for paypal. ( By the way,  I checked out other alternative companies such as propal and the cost was exactly the same as paypal. )

Here is one fee calculator:

http://www.rolbe.com/ebay.htm

Here is the one on the ebay web site:

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/Feecalculator.html

Store owners got the fee increase on shipping as of July 6,  2011.  It really is a huge increase for sellers of craft items.  I checked out other alternatives.  There are many alternatives to ebay.  The problem is that the amount of traffic is much lower.  No matter how much less the fees are,  if you aren't selling much you aren't going to be making much money!

Here is a list of some of the alternatives:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/205872039439503?view=doc&id=206583379368369

Webstore and ebid seem to be the most popular from comments I have heard.
It means learning a whole new system.  Do you have the same items listed on both web sites?  What if the item sells twice then and you have one item?   Listing is very time consuming.  I read that it is possible on some of these sites to upload your listings from ebay.  I haven't checked that out myself.