I've just been looking at ebay shops.
I didn't realise it was a monthly payment subscription - either £14.99, £49.99, or a whopping £349.99 per month!
The 5p listing fee is if you're on the £49.99 per month subscription, but you can get a 1p listing fee - if you pay £349.99 per month. Otherwise, it's 20p to list.
The Final Value fee when the item sells is 9.9%. And, of course, there's your PayPal fee that needs to be taken into account as well.
So, ebay take money when you list, they take money when you sell, they take money when you receive payment, and they take a monthly fee as well. When exactly does the seller, y'know, the person who actually does all the work, make any money out of this?
Example: Using an ebay shop to sell ten items costing £10 each:
10 items @ £10
Listing fee = £2 (10x 20p)
Final Value fee = £9.90 (10x 9.9%)
PayPal fees = £5.40 (10x 3.4%+20p)
Monthly fee = £14.99
Total cost = £32.29
Total sales = £100 (10x £10)
What you end up with = £67.71
ebay percentage = ~33%
So, ebay end up with a third of your money - and that's before you think of things like your manufacturing costs.
Blimey! Someone tell me I've done my sums wrong, please!