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Selling on EBay and payment received via PayPal.

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CheekyChops | 12:30 Wed 20th Aug 2008 | Shopping & Style
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Not sure if this is the right section but here goes...

I have recently decided to try and raise some money and also declutter my house by selling my junk on EBay.

My first 2 items sold last week and as well as the instertion fee and a final value fee charged by EBay, I have been charged a fee by PayPal for each payment.

Does anyone know why?

I have previously sold 3 items before, in April and May this year, all three for a higher value than the 2 I sold this week but those 3 didn't attract any fees from PayPal. Is this fee a new thing?

One item was only �6 and PayPal have deducted 40p and the other was �7.87 and 47p has been taken. The ones earlier this year were �24.99, �63 and �38 and no fees were taken from them.

I'm confused. They are only low value items and by the time I have paid insertion fee, final value fee, PayPal fee and fee to trf funds from PayPal to my bank account, it hardly seems worth the effort!!
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PayPal get charged if your buyer uses a debit or credit card to fund the payments, exactly the same way as a shop does,

They pass these charges on to you, plus a bit more. Don't forget you have sellers' protection, the buyer has buyers' protection all backed by PayPal - they can't do it for no money.
Here is the fee calculator

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside
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That's fine, I just couldn't understand why the first 3 things I sold earlier this year didn't attract fees. Would this be because they would have been via a bank account and the two this week were via card?
I don't know why you weren't charged the first two times.

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