If you have a "Donation Due" and you pay it before it goes to MIssion Fish do you still have to pay the 5% handling fee to Mission Fish?  Is there any charge that you have to pay if you donate after your sale but before it goes to Mission Fish?

I am extremely disappointed to learn -- only by reading this post -- that Mission Fish charges a minimum of $1.00.

The math just doesn't add up.

I had a starting price on an item of $0.99. As it turns out, that's what the item sold for. My "donation" amount charged was $1.00.

I can't believe that when all these donations are batch processed that the system can't be more efficient than charging me MORE in my donation amount than I actually received for the product.

Add to that $1.00 one must also remember that eBay charged their final value commission on the sale (albeit 9 cents with a 2 cent credit, presumably for the donation) AND that PayPal charged an additional 42 cents for the transaction!

So, if an item doesn't get any competitive bids and sells for an opening bid of $0.99, That 99 cent "sale" just cost me $1.50!

Bottom line: THE ONE DOLLAR MINIMUM DONATION HAS GOT TO GO!

With all the sales batched together, this Fish organization needs to find a better operating system, or The Salvation Army (my charity of choice) loses.

If I sell a thousand $.99 items, that's $247.50 the Salvation Army loses, because I'm not going to opt in on charitable giving unless it's at the 25% rate I specify.

By the way, The Salvation Army truly is "doing the most good" and their operation is the most credible and efficient and lean charitable organization in the world.

Change this policy!

There's plenty of money to be made without gouging sellers. When I sold an item for $150.00 last week, my donation was $37.50. So this Fish outfit can easily balance out their operating costs on their overall bookings.

I'll relate just one more example of how these percentage-based operations gouge people: When I was CEO of a charitable foundation, I had a donor make a pledge of $500,000. She then wanted to pay her pledge with her American Express card. The transaction fee? ... $24,000.

TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!

It's not right.

Is there a way to change my listing to disable the donation? I'm not happy about the fact that (I feel) ebay has misrepresented the amount of credit they give you vs the donation given and I want to change my listings so that I'm not donating anymore. I also wasn't aware that there is a minimum $1 donation, which means I lost money on a sale that I was only breaking even on anyways. I tried to revise my listings and it won't let me change that particular item. Do I need to end my listing early?

When I purchased an item it asked at checkout if I wanted to donate to the "ASPCA" NOT MissionFish! 3% or 5% is HUGE!

Another fund raiser scam. I will NEVER donate through EBay again and tell as many people as I can not to either. That is just skimming. They are making millions collecting and resending your donations. Just send directly to the ASPCA and they get 100% of it.  

you can forget anymore donations from me - this means that I just lost close to $100 in one month - your $1 minimum and the ebay fees and the postage

I am done with this donation account

Damn shame. I too, would like to do good, but these testimonies discourage me from even considering going there. There are just too many hands in the pie and the efforts of humble salesman go unnoticed as well as blocked, it seems. PLEASE FIX THIS. Maybe THIS is precisely why donations have gone down. The execs involved truly need to hurry to address this  pathetic glitch, be it intentional or not.

  I feel bad because I´ve been seriously contemplating donating but do not! Ebay is an organized establishment. WHY then does this persist. GIVE CREDIT WHERE ITS DUE, PUT UP THE RIBBONS, PUT THEM WHERE THE SELLERS SAY TO PUT ÉM, AND GET ON WITH HELPING PEOPLE; EVEN if one of the underlined  reasons why the ribbon issue exists, is because of the possible blockage of ads, Any listing associated to the donating of funds to someone´s preferred charity SHOULD be be all means treated as sacred ground to be Respected, Cherished, Humbly approached and just utterly revered. Anyone, seller or buyer, who helps others, should be given red carpet treatment as if they were royalty. I just cannot give this subject justice. I want to give, but tremble at the idea of unnecessary complications. I got enough!    

I must be blind or eBay makes things more difficult to understand than need be.  I gave over $500 last year to ALS.  I want to know if they know it comes from me?  My cousin died in 2008 from ALS in Seattle and I need and want her family to see that I am donating to it in her honor.  Please tell me in a way that I can understand, how to make this happen.

I don't mind paying a fee for eBay Giving Works to do all the paperwork and send the payments in.  It is one less thing for me to do and gives a few people a job ( I hope).  I just need to know that my cousin's mother sees that I really am giving.

Thank you.

Hi.  I just finished my first listing/sale as a direct seller for my favorite charity.  Ebay and Paypal have some major issues, and the number of issues and the very slow response time to address it, has made me wonder if I even want to sell with the "option" to donate.  The problem is, if I sell without the "donation option" and then choose to donate 90%, I will not get the discount from ebay for the fees/listing, etc.

My problem?  I am not given the option to select the % I want to give when setting up a listing.  I have called 5x in the past week and have a glut of items that I cannot sell on behalf of the charity until this problem is resolved. 

Another problem (ebay and Papal point to each other), the % (90) that I promised on that first sale has not been deducted by ebay or paypal and it's sitting there when it could be going to the charity.  This has been over a week.  I was told that this is an internal issue.  Ok.  But how hard is it for ebay/paypal to resolve these issues in a timely manner. 

Finally, when I call for service, the operators don't seem very polished.  Of the 5 I've spoken to, I could only understand 1 of them.  And they keep apologizing over and over for putting me on hold several times.  That became very annoying.  I had to tell them - "no problem" each and every time.

I feel very "let down" by the companies I've become loyal to in my private sales.  I'm going to persist because I want to help my charity, but I assume that these "internal" issues would discourage most anyone else from participating in ebay giving works.

After 4 years of donating I have charges to a credit card that is not linked in any way to EBay. No one has answers, eBay, PayPal, or the third party "Donation Center". It’s crazy how you can list all your products with a donation, but can’t remove the donation at any time. I can change the price, listing information, shipping information, etc... but can't click on the "No Donation button". Let's be honest, we as sellers’ contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to this company called "eBay Giving", yet they have NO phone number or address, and can only be contacted by email?!? That's a red flag to me.. No I'm questioning where is my donations going based on this... I've worked so hard to build my eBay business, and now have to continue donating, or delete my listings and relist. Sounds like a gym membership if you ask me, once they got you, you can't leave. I spent 6 hours on the phone with eBay, transferred to papal, transferred back to eBay, and no one had answers or could help. They all said you can delete your listings, and relist. That's losing all my years of hard work. They stated, you can email the donation center, as that’s the only way to speak to them. What company that collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from eBay sellers is only available using email, with NO address or phone number. I think they need an investigation, and we need them removed from our listings, without having to relist. This is so unfair! I think it's time for an Investigation!!