Registering for eBay is completely free, but opening an eBay store requires paying a corresponding monthly store fee based on the selected store level. In addition, you need to pay an item listing fee to list items on various eBay sites, and you need to pay a certain percentage of transaction fees after the item is sold. Therefore, the basic cost of selling on the eBay platform is the listing fee plus the transaction fee. Depending on the listing format chosen by the seller, the fees incurred will also vary. Sellers can also add some special features to items, but they need to pay corresponding feature fees.
The following will take the US site as an example to introduce the charging standards of the eBay platform. The charging standards of the US site are divided into non-store sellers and store sellers. Non-store sellers refer to sellers who only list items for sale on the US site without opening a store on the US site; store sellers refer to sellers who have opened a store on the US site.
The fees for non-store sellers on the eBay US site include basic fees and special function fees. The basic fee refers to the item listing fee and the transaction fee after the item is sold. The special function fee refers to the seller’s Some special features added when listing items.
1. Basic fees
A certain percentage of listing fees must be paid when listing items on eBay’s US site, and corresponding transaction fees must be paid after the items are sold. Therefore, on eBay The basic costs incurred by selling items on the US site are listing fees and transaction fees.
2. Special function fee
In order to better display the items and increase sales, sellers can add some special functions to the published items. Of course, adding these features requires paying corresponding fees.