Ebay fees have become a crock, PayPal included. Then you gotta pay income taxes on the payouts. So you end up loosing like crazy in the end. Totally not worth it anymore, greedy politicians.
Millions stopped using ebay in the last few years, reporting private persons selling their personnel things to be taxed as income, over charging on their fees, scamming buyers/sellers.
AND, if you sell over $600 tax, shipping included for the YEAR you're gonna get 1099'd on that "income". The old threshold was $20,000 in gross sales or like 250 items sold, you'd be considered a business. Needless to say I don't sell on ebay anymore.
It's a haven for stolen equipment. I had 5 saws stolen and found all on eBay. Police involvement, eBay notified, seller confronted. All still sold to places unknown except for my Jonsered 2171, that I actually bought back.
The shipping fees, the PayPal rules, the taxes etc. I rarely use it now. Eg, an €8 CD can cost up to €25 for shipping! I stopped selling on it years ago and I’ll only buy from sellers that offer low price shipping.
Lots of pretty sharp people and a lot of data blame Reaganomics. Two wings of one damn bird and it’s crapping on our heads while we blame the neighbors. Doesn’t make a lot of sense but here we are. 🤷🏽♂️
Oh man I feel ya. As an Australian you should see the shipping fees they charge. I shit you not when I say it’s $USD50 to ship anything from a small bearing to decal or gasket. It’s Fkin insanity
They charge fees on shipping because people would list items for $1 and shipping would be $200. I believe they should be charging tax based on the location the item is shipped to. However, looks like they probably just picked the highest sales tax in the country and use that as the standard. It is difficult to program in all the state and local taxes per jurisdictions in the country. Many cities have additional taxes above the state tax. They make their own rules and as they keep getting worse, the fees will increase and due to less traffic. Also, even if you indicate the saw is junk, parts only, etc….with buyer protection, the buyer can complain about anything and eBay will side with the buyer and go into your bank account and pull the funds the buyer wants back. There is no negotiation- they get what they want. Sold 2 items on eBay, never again after my second sale. They ended taking 1/4 of the sale.
The worst part is if the buyer claims "item not as described" and then you have to pay shipping to get the item back and refund the buyer, and you lose all your profits.
I have come to view things as a consumer that if the item your wanting to sell is not worth more that $500 it's simply a throw away item, unless you can trade said item with someone for something you want. When your time and maybe a few parts(dollars spent) are needed for an item to make it whole and useful is worth less than $500, in this day and age it is simply not worth the time and effort to sell it.
I just sold my first saw on eBay and my last. I put a reserve on it and didn’t know it was going to be a $40 fee. I’m just going to eat it and keep it at this point
Used to be easier to find items long time ago on ebay now when you sign in and do searching first thing you put is north america only and loose three quarters of your search results because the majority of items are from china or other, sellers get hammered and then quit with frustration and now its much harder to find what you need.
If you just doing ebay as a business and main income source and follow other listing stipulations, ship within 1 days and meet several many other other criteria as a top rated seller you can get a reduction of 10% of your final fees so the big people that can do this only get charged 3.25%
This was eye opening. I haven’t sold anything on eBay in years and…doesn’t look like I will. No way in hell they should be able to charge you a percentage on the shipping or the tax. ESPECIALLY THE TAX.
if you are commercial seller then eBay is expensive. For private use its without any fees. WIth this knowing you have to add all of these fees and taxes on top of what you want to earn and then calculate the prize you have to ask for at the ebay auction
@@82f100swbsame fees as body? In Germany there was little fees for private peaople who are selling on eBay, and since one year or so no fees for private persons, therefor the commercial user fees were rising up to round about 12 - 14%
Yup, they tax you hard. Nothing like paying a 13% fee on the the sale, shipping and tax. I only sell on ebay if I absolutely have to and then I mark it up around 20% compared to selling locally. The saws still sell.
I must be a great buyer, as a farmer i do not have to pay sales tax. Im wondering on the other side, if theyre showing and dingin the seller with the tas
Never a shortage of folks dreaming up ways to take what you’ve earned. Can’t blame them. No money in working for a living. I guess it could be worse. You could have ran a jackhammer for 10hrs in the hundred degree heat, only to have them take 60% of your paycheck for one scheme or another that you didn’t ask for and won’t benefit from, drive an hr there and an hour back using $50 in fuel plus another $50 in wear and tear and vehicle costs and once you get home you just want a beer and a steak that now costs more than you came home with! The strange part is we shame kids these days for not wanting to work for the same money we made in the 80’s. Wish I had an answer but one thing is a certainty, as long as we keep voting for they same folks we always have regardless of which side of the isle they stand on, nothing will change. But at least we can all agree that the red light 066 magnum was the finest 50cc saw ever made! 😁👍🏼👍🏼
That saw is worth $350-$450 in good condition like yours. What other 70cc saw can you buy for $400? I was blown away it sold for $250. And eBay sucks….for sellers.
I'm was being charged 109 dollars for revising my saw 2 times then I just took it off and they charged me again so told them I'm deleting my account and they dropped all the charges just crazy of I was not paying attention to my account I would have got screwed over
Love how we have a chainsaw channel on here where the host just tells shit like it is. No tip toeing around things, if people get hurt feelings, so what. Thanks for shooting straight Boedy.
Yeah it's shady that's why people won't ship overseas the higher the shipping the less you make. I called and complained about it when i figured out what they were doing and they said they did that cuz people were charging outrageous amounts for shipping. I said oh so instead of making it where people can't do that, y'all just say you want a cut of it. It's messed up.
Fuc* eBay I have a ton of tooling and attachments for craftsman atlas lathes. I sold a couple and literally got screwed! I’ll keep the stuff before I sell it on there.
So recently, I’ve gotten into saws and lurking ebay.. a guy had a BEAUTIFUL 61? With 24” bar.. wants “399” I guess it looks good (the price). No buy it now option, not running. He’s gonna be sitting on it. I can snail mail a 365 clone from china for $160. Im like whaaa?? Not even an option to tell the guy or waste my time really. These flippers honestly have no idea. But like the guy that knocked up the prom queen, not me.. The guy in the beginning of Idiocracy.. Some guy is going to happen around it at the right time and get it. I’m just not wasting my time watching it. Guy thinks he’s gonna get rich. A lot of these storage locker and estate sale flippers are gonna learn, so they can later complain, but not on my time. I already know the bar studs and complete top end are junk.. I would only contemplate buying a clone basically for the cases. I know they need a studs carb jug and piston out of the gate. These guys wasting their time on these china copy carbs make me laugh and frustrated at the same time. Like what do you expect? But it’s not like 365’s and 372’s are common. I also hate the idea of sending my money straight to china. lol they’re just melting down their garbage shaping it like chainsaw cases and shipping it right back to us.
Where does freedom exist? such a great question, it will take much more than a day to mull that one over. So if not eBay then what? marketplace with 100 "is this available questions" and no bids, a fair percentage fee would be good, perhaps on a downward scale tied to the number of sales on your account, wishfull thinking I know.
You click AGREE to the fees every time you list something, why are you now complaining? There's regular -80% listing fees offers on eBay, once a month I think, maybe list your items on those days.
Whoa, it's still better here than most other places. Or we would not have millions of people crossing into our country. Which is another issue in it's self. I love America.
We only have what we have because we are printing money, to the tune of $33 Trillion dollars. Inflation is through the roof. Our politicians are idiots! All debt is repaid eventually !
Yep I agree with you Boedy, E-Suck is a total crock of shit just as you said and a total BS rip off. I listed 2 saws on there last October at the same time, both sold 1-2 days later and then I got hit with all this BS. I was freaking pissed. F Esuck.
Ebay fees suck but the price of everything is going up. I don't like fees and taxes at the pump, on my pay check, etc but thats the way it is. I sell used parts on ebay because it has the most exposure to buyers. If you wanna play you gotta pay. I see a lot of whole saws go for cheap and I know the sellers are not happy. It takes time and effort but stripping and flipping can yield much higher profits than selling whole.
You really have to not want what your selling, after their take and shipping it's over. Facebook marketplace is the only reason Facebook is worth keeping.
Is it legal in the USA to tax the Tax and then tax the transportation paid for by the customer again? In my opinion, this is a case for going to court and taking the Ebay administrator on vacation watching the sun in squares. They must have learned at the same school where the Almighty went, who is above the law, Mr. Trump.
Very true it sucks my new saying is We live in the land of the stupid!!!!!!!!! We are going through the same thing. Thank you for this video. I would say more on the bs but I'm stopping Thanks again no what your talking about.
Sounds exactly like the last saw I sold. I hadnt sold in 15+ years, tossed up a runing but ugly 266. Walked away with $180 after all the bs on a saw that sold for $250... Thats not happening again.
Okay well first I would say, if you choose to use eBay as your marketing platform then yes you do have to pay for the service. Though you do all the work that saw would take twice as long to sell if u put it in say local adds for .50cents. Bc it’s eBay (and let’s face it if you need something used for a decent price) your getting so many more looks at said saw bc everyone knows ebay. It’s a commodity at this point. I mean I can’t believe you don’t understand how this works. That’s like if I looked for a modded saw (say a 372) and I saw you had one for X amount on your channel then I noticed that saw didn’t sell. I know you do good work this isn’t a dig at u) then I heard you moved that same saw to Team Walker channel and it sold right away for 80$ more than what u originally asked. Are you not gonna throw Donny some YAK for what his name did for u. Come on NL you’re smarter than this. Plus America isn’t perfect but I’ve been to a few third world countries as a young man in the Army. Trust me be happy with what u got. How about if you lived in a country where after you posted that slight at Merica they came and arrested your a-* suddenly America isn’t so bad. I get it sometime things are frustrating im with u. But I’d like to think corporate regime and America are 2 totally different things. Maybe they are not but I chewed a lot of dirt oversees and like to think that it isn’t America but cooperate greed that has things like it is. Trust me the grass ain’t greener in some of the places I’ve been. Anyway sorry for the hellish long comment. Love your channel Amigo. Keep making videos and I’ll keep watching.
hey boedy i have emailed you twice for your address for the horizontal hustle and no response maybe they are going to your spam? Please let me Know thanks Mark.
I've been getting them, I just lazy and don't spend certain times of my life answering emails. Not your fault, you did nothing wrong. I already looked you up, you live up around Cumming, right? I'll send you an email here soon, just he patient.
Ok just making sure you had'nt heard of me and was scared for me to bring my saw just kidding but i did build one i think i might have about ten of them. got a love for those and 350 's and you guessed it 268's.@@novicelumberjack
Ebay fees have become a crock, PayPal included. Then you gotta pay income taxes on the payouts. So you end up loosing like crazy in the end. Totally not worth it anymore, greedy politicians.
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It's insane that we have to pay sales tax used items. Sales tax was already collected when the item was sold new.
Yea the seller gets screwed with fees!
Thank you! I basically paid to sell my stuff, Ebay is terrible.
I'd say the politicians are paid by the corporations like eBay and so they are legally allowed to get away with this.
Hidden fee of 10% goes to the Big Guy
It makes no sense that their asinine fee includes the price after taxes.
They're literally profiting off of the Taxes.
Millions stopped using ebay in the last few years, reporting private persons selling their personnel things to be taxed as income, over charging on their fees, scamming buyers/sellers.
AND, if you sell over $600 tax, shipping included for the YEAR you're gonna get 1099'd on that "income". The old threshold was $20,000 in gross sales or like 250 items sold, you'd be considered a business. Needless to say I don't sell on ebay anymore.
It's a haven for stolen equipment.
I had 5 saws stolen and found all on eBay. Police involvement, eBay notified, seller confronted.
All still sold to places unknown except for my Jonsered 2171, that I actually bought back.
I quit Ebay years ago because of the ridiculus fees !!
That's why you don't sell things on eBay
My dad makes good money on eBay, but he also watches his margins before he buys an item to resell.
The shipping fees, the PayPal rules, the taxes etc. I rarely use it now. Eg, an €8 CD can cost up to €25 for shipping!
I stopped selling on it years ago and I’ll only buy from sellers that offer low price shipping.
I sold a 346 on eBay and they raked me over the coals too, I will never use eBay again.
I pulled my store off Ebay many years ago for much the same reasons plus a few more.
Thanks for making a video on this topic. It definitely needs to be brought to light of the excessive greed with big corporations or companies
Keep voting Dem. Youll be fine . Lol
Lots of pretty sharp people and a lot of data blame Reaganomics. Two wings of one damn bird and it’s crapping on our heads while we blame the neighbors. Doesn’t make a lot of sense but here we are. 🤷🏽♂️
Dems for Trump 24
What a ripoff
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Oh man I feel ya. As an Australian you should see the shipping fees they charge. I shit you not when I say it’s $USD50 to ship anything from a small bearing to decal or gasket. It’s Fkin insanity
They charge fees on shipping because people would list items for $1 and shipping would be $200.
I believe they should be charging tax based on the location the item is shipped to. However, looks like they probably just picked the highest sales tax in the country and use that as the standard. It is difficult to program in all the state and local taxes per jurisdictions in the country. Many cities have additional taxes above the state tax.
They make their own rules and as they keep getting worse, the fees will increase and due to less traffic.
Also, even if you indicate the saw is junk, parts only, etc….with buyer protection, the buyer can complain about anything and eBay will side with the buyer and go into your bank account and pull the funds the buyer wants back. There is no negotiation- they get what they want.
Sold 2 items on eBay, never again after my second sale. They ended taking 1/4 of the sale.
The worst part is if the buyer claims "item not as described" and then you have to pay shipping to get the item back and refund the buyer, and you lose all your profits.
I have come to view things as a consumer that if the item your wanting to sell is not worth more that $500 it's simply a throw away item, unless you can trade said item with someone for something you want. When your time and maybe a few parts(dollars spent) are needed for an item to make it whole and useful is worth less than $500, in this day and age it is simply not worth the time and effort to sell it.
I just sold my first saw on eBay and my last. I put a reserve on it and didn’t know it was going to be a $40 fee. I’m just going to eat it and keep it at this point
Used to be easier to find items long time ago on ebay now when you sign in and do searching first thing you put is north america only and loose three quarters of your search results because the majority of items are from china or other, sellers get hammered and then quit with frustration and now its much harder to find what you need.
One side is all about taxes till they have to pay up it cracks me up!
Boedy 13% to the Big Guy!
LETS GO BRANDON!
If you just doing ebay as a business and main income source and follow other listing stipulations, ship within 1 days and meet several many other other criteria as a top rated seller you can get a reduction of 10% of your final fees so the big people that can do this only get charged 3.25%
This was eye opening. I haven’t sold anything on eBay in years and…doesn’t look like I will. No way in hell they should be able to charge you a percentage on the shipping or the tax. ESPECIALLY THE TAX.
Yep it is a CROCK dude. Stay away. I sold 2 saws on there last October and it was EXACTLY like what Boedy showed here. Damn was I pissed off.
Tax should be accounted for by the original sale in store.
I understand they are in it for the $ and any service provider should be compensated. But those fees have just become asinine.
More than likely there will a class action lawsuit against ebay and the lawyers will make a bundle and everyone else involved will receive 1.50
I totally feel the same way. I'm being charged fees off the shipping and tax. So I'm paying way more than 15%.
if you are commercial seller then eBay is expensive. For private use its without any fees. WIth this knowing you have to add all of these fees and taxes on top of what you want to earn and then calculate the prize you have to ask for at the ebay auction
I'm no commercial seller. I literally have sold 3 things on there since 2002. Fees every time....
@@82f100swbsame fees as body? In Germany there was little fees for private peaople who are selling on eBay, and since one year or so no fees for private persons, therefor the commercial user fees were rising up to round about 12 - 14%
I sold a knife for over $41. The buyer paid for shipping. I ended up receiving 10$! What a scam! Never again!
Yup, they tax you hard. Nothing like paying a 13% fee on the the sale, shipping and tax. I only sell on ebay if I absolutely have to and then I mark it up around 20% compared to selling locally. The saws still sell.
I must be a great buyer, as a farmer i do not have to pay sales tax. Im wondering on the other side, if theyre showing and dingin the seller with the tas
Kind of like how our government was established years ago and we do all the work!!! ❌
Buy alot on eBay still don't get how I get some good deals with all fees charge everyone now.i used sell bunch on their years ago not anymore
Agree with you Boedy….I quit them years ago when there cut went up and their creative math started to show its effects.
Shoot man i was thinking on buying that saw if you still had it. Next time.
Never a shortage of folks dreaming up ways to take what you’ve earned. Can’t blame them. No money in working for a living. I guess it could be worse. You could have ran a jackhammer for 10hrs in the hundred degree heat, only to have them take 60% of your paycheck for one scheme or another that you didn’t ask for and won’t benefit from, drive an hr there and an hour back using $50 in fuel plus another $50 in wear and tear and vehicle costs and once you get home you just want a beer and a steak that now costs more than you came home with! The strange part is we shame kids these days for not wanting to work for the same money we made in the 80’s. Wish I had an answer but one thing is a certainty, as long as we keep voting for they same folks we always have regardless of which side of the isle they stand on, nothing will change. But at least we can all agree that the red light 066 magnum was the finest 50cc saw ever made! 😁👍🏼👍🏼
That saw is worth $350-$450 in good condition like yours. What other 70cc saw can you buy for $400? I was blown away it sold for $250.
And eBay sucks….for sellers.
Well said Boedy
I'm was being charged 109 dollars for revising my saw 2 times then I just took it off and they charged me again so told them I'm deleting my account and they dropped all the charges just crazy of I was not paying attention to my account I would have got screwed over
Could not agree more
Love how we have a chainsaw channel on here where the host just tells shit like it is. No tip toeing around things, if people get hurt feelings, so what. Thanks for shooting straight Boedy.
Yeah it's shady that's why people won't ship overseas the higher the shipping the less you make. I called and complained about it when i figured out what they were doing and they said they did that cuz people were charging outrageous amounts for shipping. I said oh so instead of making it where people can't do that, y'all just say you want a cut of it. It's messed up.
Tax the tax. 😂
Im top rated seller and each category has its fees. Sucks yup. However i make some of it back on shipping.
Fuc* eBay I have a ton of tooling and attachments for craftsman atlas lathes. I sold a couple and literally got screwed! I’ll keep the stuff before I sell it on there.
Has anyone sold stuff through FB marketplace with the "ships to you" option? Do they charge fees, taxes, etc like eBay?
You spent a week working for less than the lowest minimum wage, only made $60 when Ebay made half as much and you did all the work for them...
FeeBay
Flea Bay is RIDICULOUS!
So recently, I’ve gotten into saws and lurking ebay.. a guy had a BEAUTIFUL 61? With 24” bar.. wants “399” I guess it looks good (the price). No buy it now option, not running. He’s gonna be sitting on it. I can snail mail a 365 clone from china for $160. Im like whaaa?? Not even an option to tell the guy or waste my time really. These flippers honestly have no idea. But like the guy that knocked up the prom queen, not me.. The guy in the beginning of Idiocracy.. Some guy is going to happen around it at the right time and get it. I’m just not wasting my time watching it. Guy thinks he’s gonna get rich. A lot of these storage locker and estate sale flippers are gonna learn, so they can later complain, but not on my time. I already know the bar studs and complete top end are junk.. I would only contemplate buying a clone basically for the cases. I know they need a studs carb jug and piston out of the gate. These guys wasting their time on these china copy carbs make me laugh and frustrated at the same time. Like what do you expect? But it’s not like 365’s and 372’s are common. I also hate the idea of sending my money straight to china. lol they’re just melting down their garbage shaping it like chainsaw cases and shipping it right back to us.
Your "the smartest man on earth" remember LMAO 😂 You also forgot to include wear and tear on your vehicle 😮
Who’s forcing him to sell it on eBay?
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
Where does freedom exist? such a great question, it will take much more than a day to mull that one over.
So if not eBay then what? marketplace with 100 "is this available questions" and no bids, a fair percentage fee would be good, perhaps on a downward scale tied to the number of sales on your account, wishfull thinking I know.
Sad but true. Trust in our government and justice system is at an all time low!
This is more eBay than the Government. I do agree something’s that we get taxed on is just bullshit.
Big business and government are one and the same. Make your vote count.@@bradwolfgram6345
eBay is a private entity. Are against capitalism? I believe so, comrade.
Good thing you weren’t selling something more expensive
ain't sleazebay grand?
Bodie, freedom only exists in your mind……
You click AGREE to the fees every time you list something, why are you now complaining? There's regular -80% listing fees offers on eBay, once a month I think, maybe list your items on those days.
Whoa, it's still better here than most other places. Or we would not have millions of people crossing into our country. Which is another issue in it's self. I love America.
We only have what we have because we are printing money, to the tune of $33 Trillion dollars. Inflation is through the roof. Our politicians are idiots! All debt is repaid eventually !
Yep I agree with you Boedy, E-Suck is a total crock of shit just as you said and a total BS rip off. I listed 2 saws on there last October at the same time, both sold 1-2 days later and then I got hit with all this BS. I was freaking pissed. F Esuck.
I never sell on ebay I have bought a few saws off there got all of them to run
Where does freedom exist? Craigslist
Ebay fees suck but the price of everything is going up. I don't like fees and taxes at the pump, on my pay check, etc but thats the way it is. I sell used parts on ebay because it has the most exposure to buyers. If you wanna play you gotta pay. I see a lot of whole saws go for cheap and I know the sellers are not happy. It takes time and effort but stripping and flipping can yield much higher profits than selling whole.
Agreed, BPS
You really have to not want what your selling, after their take and shipping it's over. Facebook marketplace is the only reason Facebook is worth keeping.
Is it legal in the USA to tax the Tax and then tax the transportation paid for by the customer again? In my opinion, this is a case for going to court and taking the Ebay administrator on vacation watching the sun in squares. They must have learned at the same school where the Almighty went, who is above the law, Mr. Trump.
Very true it sucks my new saying is We live in the land of the stupid!!!!!!!!! We are going through the same thing. Thank you for this video. I would say more on the bs but I'm stopping Thanks again no what your talking about.
Ebay sucks! Rip off!
Sounds exactly like the last saw I sold. I hadnt sold in 15+ years, tossed up a runing but ugly 266. Walked away with $180 after all the bs on a saw that sold for $250... Thats not happening again.
Yeah, if I'm only gonna get $180 for all that hassle, I'd much rather the buy get an amazing deal vs both of us getting shafted.
A Novice at Grey Matter usage also, brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should have just kept it lol
Maybe eBay is using Bidenominics? I’ll admit I must be too stupid to understand how I’m better off.
Maybe you are just too stupid, and leave it at that.
Its also called feebay
I watched your saw sell... or the last 3 minutes, was just curious 🤔 fee's suck
I never sell on there crap .
I would rather throw something out than use ebay
Okay well first I would say, if you choose to use eBay as your marketing platform then yes you do have to pay for the service. Though you do all the work that saw would take twice as long to sell if u put it in say local adds for .50cents. Bc it’s eBay (and let’s face it if you need something used for a decent price) your getting so many more looks at said saw bc everyone knows ebay. It’s a commodity at this point. I mean I can’t believe you don’t understand how this works. That’s like if I looked for a modded saw (say a 372) and I saw you had one for X amount on your channel then I noticed that saw didn’t sell. I know you do good work this isn’t a dig at u) then I heard you moved that same saw to Team Walker channel and it sold right away for 80$ more than what u originally asked. Are you not gonna throw Donny some YAK for what his name did for u. Come on NL you’re smarter than this. Plus America isn’t perfect but I’ve been to a few third world countries as a young man in the Army. Trust me be happy with what u got. How about if you lived in a country where after you posted that slight at Merica they came and arrested your a-* suddenly America isn’t so bad. I get it sometime things are frustrating im with u. But I’d like to think corporate regime and America are 2 totally different things. Maybe they are not but I chewed a lot of dirt oversees and like to think that it isn’t America but cooperate greed that has things like it is. Trust me the grass ain’t greener in some of the places I’ve been. Anyway sorry for the hellish long comment. Love your channel Amigo. Keep making videos and I’ll keep watching.
It is BS.....luckily you still made money.
8:53 😂
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hey boedy i have emailed you twice for your address for the horizontal hustle and no response maybe they are going to your spam? Please let me Know thanks Mark.
I've been getting them, I just lazy and don't spend certain times of my life answering emails. Not your fault, you did nothing wrong. I already looked you up, you live up around Cumming, right? I'll send you an email here soon, just he patient.
Ok just making sure you had'nt heard of me and was scared for me to bring my saw just kidding but i did build one i think i might have about ten of them. got a love for those and 350 's and you guessed it 268's.@@novicelumberjack