http://www.paypal8.com/what-would-be-the-ebay-and-paypal-fees-for-this.html PayPal Blog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:14:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.paypal8.com/what-would-be-the-ebay-and-paypal-fees-for-this.html/comment-page-1#comment-1607 Aron R Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:21:48 +0000 http://www.paypal8.com/what-would-be-the-ebay-and-paypal-fees-for-this.html#comment-1607 Try typing "ebay paypal calculator" into a search engine like Yahoo's or Google's. You'll get a great many hits for free fee calculators. If you wish to calculate this manually: eBay's listing of fees:http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.htm… PayPal's listing of fees:https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr… A quick and dirty rule of thumb is that on an average transaction between $50 and $200, for a buyer who pays you via PayPal, the total fees - eBay's insertion and final value fee, and PayPal's fee to receive money - will be in the range of 6-11% of the final sales price. Note that there is a way to avoid PayPal fees if you have just a "personal" account, but buyers won't be able to charge their credit card to pay you via PayPal; they'll need to pay you via an immediate withdraw from their checking account, via an "eCheck" (which can take a week or more to clear), or from their balances at PayPal. One other thing to be aware of: sometimes bidders will be more comfortable bidding on an auction that offers PayPal, due to the buyer protections, particularly if you're a new member on eBay. And it can be a hassle for some buyers to get to a Post Office, grocery store, WalMart, etc. to pick up a money order, and they'll often be charged a modest fee (typically about $0.50 to $1.10) as well, which can also discourage some bidders. For that reason, you might in some cases realize a slightly better price if you offer PayPal. If you offer both, you could steer buyers to use money orders by offering a modest discount for using that payment method. Try typing “ebay paypal calculator” into a search engine like Yahoo’s or Google’s. You’ll get a great many hits for free fee calculators.
If you wish to calculate this manually:
eBay’s listing of fees:http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.htm…
PayPal’s listing of fees:https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr…
A quick and dirty rule of thumb is that on an average transaction between $50 and $200, for a buyer who pays you via PayPal, the total fees – eBay’s insertion and final value fee, and PayPal’s fee to receive money – will be in the range of 6-11% of the final sales price.
Note that there is a way to avoid PayPal fees if you have just a “personal” account, but buyers won’t be able to charge their credit card to pay you via PayPal; they’ll need to pay you via an immediate withdraw from their checking account, via an “eCheck” (which can take a week or more to clear), or from their balances at PayPal.
One other thing to be aware of: sometimes bidders will be more comfortable bidding on an auction that offers PayPal, due to the buyer protections, particularly if you’re a new member on eBay. And it can be a hassle for some buyers to get to a Post Office, grocery store, WalMart, etc. to pick up a money order, and they’ll often be charged a modest fee (typically about $0.50 to $1.10) as well, which can also discourage some bidders. For that reason, you might in some cases realize a slightly better price if you offer PayPal. If you offer both, you could steer buyers to use money orders by offering a modest discount for using that payment method.

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