It is absolutely preposterous that eBay is doing this. The shipping amount that I charge is what it costs me to do it. I have to pay that money to FedEx, I'm not "making it". And now I have to pay eBay a stipend on the shipping charges? This is completely ridiculous. How can a company be as UNBELIEVABLY greedy as eBay? No wonder more and more people hate this site.
Enjoy your monopoly eBay. You're lucky that you have it.

I agree with this post. As a seller I always charge the buyer exact postage. It is totally inappropriate to extend a FVF onto shipping charges. I will not definitely curtail my selling. Nine or 10% on items is enough!!!
Ebay should not be making money on postage...this is not right!!!!

This is of course feebays greed driving the changes and has nothing to do with lowering shipping charges. They are trying to close the loop hole where sellers offset the price of an item by raising shipping fees so they can avoid the final value hit a little bit. Now that feebay is going to take some of the shipping money we will only see shipping charges go up and not down since I will be clearly informing buyers that I have to pass on feebays fees to them. It's within my right to charge for boxes, tape, labels, foam, bubblewrap and my time and gas to bring the items to the post office and if buyers dont like the s/h cost they are free to buy from someone else.

Thanks to feebay I have been selling more on craigslist and making a lot more money and keeping a lot more of it too.

I am curious, is the reason for a surcharge on shipping due to federal tax laws or other federal changes? Or is it due to eBay trying to discourage the excessive shipping amounts that some sellers still charge? If I understand this, eBay will be charging on the FINAL price, so that will include the item charge, the shipping charge, and if any, the handling charge. We are strongly encouraged to keep our shipping fees as realistic as possible. As a seller, I see this as another reason to raise my shipping fees, or, alternatively, the cost of my item to include all of the extra fees, and keep it listed as "free shipping". Either way, with our suppliers and shippers raising their prices, and now eBay add surcharges to all of those fees, we are going to have to include even more calculations to ensure we break even.

so now, posting HEAVY LARGER Dimensional rate items will be levied a Tax /fee by ebay on the resulting charges. I'll be removing all LARGE FRAMES before june. Maybe it's time to end International shipping too (that's always a High cost item)

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This is another eBay stunt to collect more money !! What about shipping overseas? It cost almost 30/40 dollars!!!! I will loose atleast 20 dollars per auction on listing fees So ridiculous!!!!! Who ever came up with this adjustment has no clue about sales. Now we have to sell the item at a higher price to get the same profit!

All Ebay is doing is to encourage the "commercial Sellers" to increase their shipping fees to make up for the increased FVF. Instead of policing the flagrant foul offenders all they are doing is penalizing the honest sellers.

Greed will mean more of us will seek other venues to sell on. Ebay has become just like Park and Swap. It used to be hundreds of individuals but now it is just one big commercial marketplace and the individual seller is becoming extinct.

Question:

How can the final value fee be tied to shipping, when shipping is legally not part of the value of the item or the sale?

Shipping is a cost associated with the item that has nothing to do with the items value, but is the cost that the buyer must bear to receive the item and the "value" they purchased. Thus the final value fee is now illegal as it is a misleading fee. The obvious goal of the additional fee is not to keep shipping costs low but to increase ebay profits. By lowering overall fees by 1 to 2% but then adding them to a component of the transaction that is not in any way related to value, but ranges well over 1 to 2% of the total transaction price, ebay has substantially increased its fees.

Additionally, I agree with all previous posts stating that this will increase shipping costs becasue sellers will have to charge more to ensure that shipping costs are fully paid by buyer, ironically also increasing ebays revenues.

They are now in money grab mode after a poor christmas season. But to charge a seller on money the seller pays out to a shipping company, seems way out-of-line and in poor taste. Cut your nose off in spite of your face. ???
I think larger/heavier items will drop on ebay. Nice move there for making money, ebay.

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Whenever Ebay raises their selling rates they explain it as if they are doing me some kind of favor. This is very insulting to their customers, the sellers. They must think most Ebay sellers are stupid. I pray for the day when I will no longer need to use Ebay. I used to like this company, but since their elimination of all payment methods except Paypal and then the last huge rate increase I fell like I am being milked for every penny they can get. I definitely feel like I am not treated well as a seller, and I hope that Ebay will someday pay for their rapacious behavior in the loss of business and customers. Once again, I will celebrate the day I not longer have to list on Ebay. Ebay, are you listening?

EBAY!!

This is highway robbery.
Our shipping costs have to do with weight not value. We make nothing off of it.

If someone sells something heavy the shipping value can equal the price of the product, making the fee double!!

It is a devious way for ebay to increase profit.
SHAME ON YOU!!

I hope someone creates an alternative auction system and knocks your socks off.