Following on from this post: Know your eBay fee break points
Taking the £29.99 item, I used Fee calculator for eBay UK to give me a rough estimate of the money I would get back from that £29.99 item launched on eBay taking into account the highest paypal fees for the uk.
Listing the item with a Gallery Upgrade (always recommended, why eBay don’t make that standard I don’t know) the breakdown was as follows:
eBay Listing Fee: £1
Final Value Fee: £1.57
PayPal Fee: £1.29
Total Fees: £3.76 ( I am assuming postage costs are covered and no profit is made here)
Leaving us with £26.23. You loose 12.5% of the value of your item straight away. For a £9.99 item it is over 16%. I imagine the closer to the break point in fees the better your profit is (though I would have to create a giant spreadsheet to tackle this, I did once but the prices have changed since then. I might dig it out and mod it.) If I find it I will create a page and list all the prices up to £200 so ya’ll can use it as a reference. ( oh and here is it like magic – eBay Fee and Percentage Lost Calculations)
