eBay: NO Insertion Fee and NO Final Value Fee on ONE item listed through mobile app Feb 12-14 YMMV

funny, I've sold 40+laptops and desktops on ebay, 1500+items on amazon, and I never had a single buyer claiming I sent them a brick.

That is why I said it ranges between 10-15% INCLUDING Paypal, and 13% certainly falls into that. Also, if you sell your item on ebay after a certain amount, it will be higher than 10%. Because his item is $900, i thought it might be different.

Perhaps you misread and thought that I meant paypal and ebay both charge 10-15% separately, when I actually meant 10-15% together since both are owned by the same company.

I put the $900 final price and it gave me: $81 total ebay fee. $26.40 in paypal fee. Total fee: $107.40. Fee Percentage: 11.93%. So I am not wrong. It falls in the range of 10-15%. So I am not wrong, but thanks for the info. Will use it in the future to calculate ebay fees for my selling.

funny, I've sold 40+laptops and desktops on ebay, 1500+items on amazon, and I never had a single buyer claiming I sent them a brick.

I've had buyers who got refunded, only to see them selling that exact same item that they said they never got under the same account they bought said item. I'm getting more flakes on ebay than craigslist these days. Although I make take advantage of this one promo, I've got a $400 item to sell....

I think it also depends on what you sell. People buying laptop parts tend to have more fraud and are willing to lie just for a few bucks, and people buying video games are the nicest, from my experience.

I used to sell a lot on eBay and had encountered quite some crooks trying to defraud me, and a lot of times they did succeed. And yes there was a crook who bought an expensive motherboard and literally sent me a brick back, claiming that was what I sent him, and eBay sided with the crook of course, and I had to pay his return shipping for the brick.

depends on if you do buy it now or auction
auction is standard 9% + 3% paypal (12%)
buy it now is that greater the price of the item, the lower the percentage.
example, for a $100 electronics, you would pay $8.50 ebay fee (Effectively 8.5%+3% paypal = 11.5%)
for a $1000 electronics, you would pay $51 ebay fee (Effectively 5.1%+3% paypal = 8.1%)
for a $2000 electronics, you would pay $71 ebay fee (Effectively 3.65% + 3% paypal = 6.65%)

If you read my follow-up posts, neither of us are wrong: you used auction-style listing, I looked at fixed-price listings. Different costs.

In my general experiences with CL, you often have to mark stuff down lower to get a sale. Ends up being a wash vs Ebay sale, even after factoring in all their associated expenses. CL usually comes out ahead on larger/heavier items though. But otherwise, stuff listed on Ebay sells much quicker.

I wish I had the luck some of you seem to have on CL. It's mostly a time waster. People all gung ho for sure coming to pick up the product but never do and never return a call after you call them to see why they never showed up or to see if they're still interested. etc, etc.

So has the promotion actually started yet for US sellers? It says that the promotion begins at 12:00:01 PT. I just listed a fixed-style listing and got charged a $0.50 insertion fee which has me wondering.

The promotion should start in about 20 minutes, PT

ETA: Should be live now at 3:02 ET/ 2:02 CT, which would be 12:02 PT.