Typical Ebay Fees on a low cost card.
 

I recently sold a card through Ebay and wanted to keep track of all fees and costs involved with selling the card. Here are the details:

I sold the card for $77.11 plus $5.00 for S/H. Total: $82.11

EBAY
Bold Listing: $2.00
Gallery Plus: $.35
Final Value: $6.94
Final Value on shipping: $.45

PayPal
Final Fee: $2.68

S/H
Post Office: $4.65

Total Fees: $17.07 or just under 21% of sale price

In the end, if I wanted to make a 25% profit on this card, I would have had to bought it for less than $52.01. Just a little reality for those of us who not only collect, but also try to turn a profit every once in awhile.

A couple of those fees you could have sliced. In my opinion, bold is not necessary for any card that will sell for under $500. That saves you $2. Also, it looks like you sent it Priority Mail. First Class is around $2.00 for postage. You can tweak it down a little bit.

Here's another comparison (before the changes in USPS shipping costs):

Card sold for $75 + $3 S/H. Total: $78.

Ebay
Final Value Fee: $4.75
Final Value Fee on Shipping: $0.12
Top Rated Seller 20% Discount: $0.95


Paypal
Final Fee: $2.56

S/H:
Post Office: $1.64 (for PSA graded card)

Total Fees: $8.12 or ~10.5% of the sale price

Sell it on the BST and avoid the eBay fees. Pass the Paypal fees on to the buyer and pay only shipping (or heck, pass that on too:D)

Best place to sell but not everything sells here.

I'll agree with everyone else... no way you should spend $4.65 to mail a $77 card. In fact, you actually lost ten cents on shipping ($5 - $0.45 = $4.55 > $4.65).

Mailing one raw card with no insurance with shipping provided by paypal is $1.64 (3 ounces); a graded card is about4 ounces and costs $1.81 (I think my numbers are correct). I don't insure under $100; just doesn't make financial sense. Even if one in 100 packages was lost I'm still better off without insurance. Anything over $100, I do insure (round down to nearest hundred usually).

I think I'm generally between 11 and 12% to sell a card on eBay. I generally opt for BST here first...

What happened to the listing fees? I thought they started back up in our categories in January...........or did I miss an extension of free listing?

It's also kind of hard for me to tell somebody else whether they should or should not Insure an item.........or that they're using too much packing and should keep the weights down also.

I tend to err on the side of caution when I think necessary, because of past experiences. As long as the costs are posted right there in the auction/listing.

Also, you are totally misrepresenting shipping as Costs of Goods Sold. Since the $5.00 you received for shipping less $0.45 fees is almost exactly the same, they should be ignored. So your fees are really $11.97 or about 15.5%. Take off the Gallery and Bold which I didn't even know they still charged for (evidence that nobody sees them) it's around 12.5%.

First 50 are free each month then sometimes the run specials. On the average, it costs 12 to 15% of an item to sell on eBay. My big beef with eBay isn't s much the cost but is how little eBay protects the sellers interests. Seems like buyers can do anything they want (ethical or unethical) with no consequences and the sellers have little or no protection for their reputation. When confronted about inappropriate feedback issues, ebay's common reply is that this doesn't violate feedback policy even when you have the emails and information to prove that a buyer is not being truthful.

As of yesterday First Class postage rates were raised a little bit. It now costs $1.69 to send a 3oz. package. (One slabbed card in a bubble mailer)

I have a store so I don't get any free listings unless they are running a category specific promotion, though the lower final selling fees make up for the lack of free listings.