![]() The fact sellers are ‘allowed’ to make any sales decisions at all (chiefly method, price, terms and ship format) is wholly based on title to the item and they yank on that regularly. They have taken the entirety of the payment transaction mechanics and all payment ‘decision’ away from the seller, except for invoicing and ‘negotiation’ to set sale price and shipping, which has become a virtual ‘job’ done FOR eBay now without compensation, whether sellers realize it or not. ![]() They have zero right to charge Ad Fees on Taxes.”ĮBay has claimed buyers as THEIR customers and the ‘sale’ as an eBay sale. “ Taxes are a government fee, and those are EQUAL to all sellers. These 3rd party sites are getting away with a lot mostly because it would be tedious to TRY to get the info from them, and secondly, it would be an intricate task to keep a records breakdown without an accountant. There is, of course, more control when you sell directly from your own site. Now, if those states ever challenged me for proof (and NY would be the first on board with this!) I would have nothing to prove the taxes had been collected from me. I waited forever to receive SOME documentation that Etsy, for instance, was actually PAYING the State sales tax to those states they were collecting it for. The other issue is that all of these sites, when they do disclose things do it in a language that eludes definition as to how it may affect your sales totals. And what about all of those fractional pennies per charge per sale per seller? I did do a sales breakdown on Etsy sales once & determined that they did not include a tax on shipping for SOME states, because those states did not include it by their own rules. ![]() I'm thinking that they get away with a lot using this method. I have found that the biggest problem with any of these vending sites if that they don't drill down to enough detail for each charge so that you can determine the breakdown of the cost. EBay Charges Advertising Fees on Sales-Tax Portion ![]()
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