Hello sports fans. I will be the first to say I am not a mathematician. With that said, this morning, I was going list some items and use eBay’s new .35 cents listing fees for all “Fixed Price” auctions.

FIXED AUCTION: The item I was going to list was 299.99. I added two photos and I was going start the auction later this evening. When I completed the listing, with the above extras, the listing fees were just .80 BUT, if sold, the Final fees, would be $21.00.
So, if sold, the total would be 21.80.

AUCTION STYLE: I thought that seemed like a lot so I switched the format to the traditional auction style and the price changed considerably. The listing fees were higher at $3.60 BUT, the final fees would have only been $11.78.
So, if sold, the total would be $15.38. That’s a savings of $6.42.

Is it me? It’s not a big difference but I will say that the auction style auctions have always worked better for me so why spend the extra money?

Here’s how the eBay fees break-down on their auction style listings

- 25.01- $1,000.00
8.75% of the initial $25.00 ($2.19), plus
3.50% of the remaining closing value balance($25.01 - $1,000.00)


Jim