Plus they own Paypal so they charge you twice

I thought I had broken even on the auction by badly mis-underestimating the shipping charges. I was doing really well being happy for whomever had just gotten an awesome deal. That's me: so Zen. Then I looked up the my final value fees on ebay, and I couldn't hear that one hand clapping no more. I didn't realize that ebay has started charging a percentage on the shipping amount as well as the final value or I would have thought twice about listing something that weighs 50 pounds. Choosing a second category was presented as costing a small fee, somehow I missed that it would double the cost of all the other 'enhancements' that seemed so reasonable.

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