Selling at a loss
Sale £1.99,. P&P £4.02, Fees £2.53: Earnings £3.43. P&P cost £4.00 Huh?
Selling at a loss
Sale £1.99,. P&P £4.02, Fees £2.53: Earnings £3.43. P&P cost £4.00 Huh?
17 replies
Seller_amUAzjvL5uIzu
The fee on an individual plan for that sale should be £1.99 inc VAT.If you are paying £4 to post then up your price.Whats your question?
Seller_f5cnodyVjLD4S
Order BMVD, UK to Europe
Book/media item sold £1.99 cr
shipping credit £4.02 cr
Total £6.01 cr
• -£0.90 (15%) category referral fee
• -£0.50 closing fee
• -£0.75 individual per item fee (non-pro account)
Total £2.15
• +£0.43 VAT 20%
£2.58 Total Fees Debit
£6.01 credit - £2.58 fees = £3.43 credit
Total fees are £ 2.58 inc VAT
As Russ says, you will need to increase your item price alternatively find a cheaper shipping method for orders to Europe or stop selling to Europe - up to you.
Seller_YSVJTvJFHSin4
I suspect a lot of (mainly non-pro) sellers are doing transactions like this all the time where they are selling at a loss. What’s worse, you have not included the cost price of the item you sold when you acquired it, or the costs involved in storing it before sale, or the costs of ink and paper for your shipping documents, all of which would make your balance on this transaction even worse.
Rather obviously, your selling price is too low. A pro account would allow you to avoid the individual per item fee. That would leave you in very modest profit on this exchange (though of course the monthly cost of a pro account has to be factored in).
