I was surprise to find out that ebay "now" charges taxes..
This happened I think about 8 months or over a year ago. You can thank Amazon and wal-mart lobbyist for that. Also it used to be the sellers responsibility to collect taxes if they sold above some value a year. The argument was people where collecting taxes from the buyers and not paying the sales tax they collected.
ebay started automatic tax charges to avoid market liability claims form its competitors and hoping to hold off any more future oversight or regulation if they "failed to act". If you read their investor reports it 80 pages of fear of oversight from US and EU courts.
with all fees from ebay and PayPal you are looking at %20 loss..
anecdotally, I found my cost on fees and shipping to be around %14-16. As apposed %11-%15 from around three/four years ago. That has a lot to do with the weight of items. Semantics, really. Depending on shipping weight, associated selling cost, frequency of sales, it can be around %20.
As well, the USPS has raised the price on first class and started charging for parcel dimensions on standard shipping(Jan 2019).
Seems so overpriced to me..
Cost and sale price are not representative of an items intrinsic worth. A total sale price is market value.
Sale price - fees - shipping = worth
$1050 - $150(ebay fee) - $30.75 (paypal fee) = $914.25
$800-900 seems pretty typical these days
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Higher associated sale cost can inform market participants to charge a higher sale price. Increases in taxes, sale cost, or duties do not add intrinsic value to an item. They add more cost.
An item is not worth more becasue it cost more to sell. It's important to separate the intrinsic from the artificial when assessing worth vs, value vs, price.
Due to the size and weight of Cabs, the market price *tends* to represent a more realistic supply/demand curve equilibrium.
Where items like, pcbs, parts, other collectibles, comics, toys, cards, console games, etc. , are much easier to influence a markets perception of intrinsic value due to the ease of exchange. Ebay is a platform to influence and much as a exchange.
I'm of the opinion that high ebay associated cost is beneficial to the long term of collectible 2ed markets. I see a single corporate entity Being the single industry standard for market value assessment as high systemic volatility for secondary collectible markets. What happen when for what ever reason, ebay is no longer the defacto price guide?
Ebay helped brake up regional price squeezing and help normalize collectible 2ed markets when it started. Now the market is different. I think there is greater overall benefit from a more decentralized collectible(happy fun time stuff) exchange.