If you have been selling on eBay for any length of time, you will quickly become accustomed to fee changes and / or increases. Unfortunately, the price of your inventory won’t decrease, so you will need to take proactive steps to keep your profits from falling as fees increase. The answer isn’t always to raise your prices. Here are some suggestions for reducing other expenses that you may incur as you operate your eBay home business.
Pay close attention to eBay Insertion Fees and the tiered pricing. For example, pricing an auction item between $1 and $9.99 costs 35 cents. Pricing …read more

Part of running a business is knowing your expenses, so that you can then track your profit. Do you really know how much you make per item per sale? eBay and Paypal fees are always changing, so you must take these factors into consideration when calculating your profit.
If you look at the numbers regularly, you can make educated business decisions about pricing adjustments and when it is time to stop selling an item and move on. I came across this free spreadsheet on the eBay Groups board. eBay member unclejoeadamson has it all figured out based on listing …read more

If you receive more than $3,000 a month through your Paypal account, then you can apply for a lower fee rate. You must apply for the rate, it is not automatically applied to your account. The normal fees for monthly sales (incoming funds) to Paypal are:
$0.00 USD – $3,000.00 USD 2.9% + $0.30 (per transaction) USD
If your sales (incoming funds) are $3,000.01 USD – $10,000.00 USD, the fees are 2.5% + $0.30 (per transaction) USD. If your incoming funds are $10,000+, the rate drops to 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction.
To apply for the lower rate, visit this link, sign …read more