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letterschminge · 2026-06-16T20:27:27.108800Z

Hello everyone,I’m facing the challenge that the fees for basic campaigns on eBay are based not only on the item price, but also on shipping costs and other incurred fees being included in the calculation. Recently, my item was bid on by a buyer in Australia, which led to extremely high shipping costs. That contributed to my earnings being severely reduced by the fees from the basic campaigns.That brings me to my question: what am I supposed to do now? The item price is €3.21, and so far eBay has only used the packaging and shipping costs for shipping within the EU (€17.49) as the basis for calculation. Apart from that, honestly I don’t understand why eBay charged this buyer the EU shipping price even though the package is clearly supposed to go to Australia. I also don’t know how to change that. And I’m really not making sense of all these invoices anymore. The only thing I can clearly see is that a sale proceeds of €19.56 is being assumed here, even though the item was bid on for only €3.21 and therefore the €17.49 for shipping within the EU is being added to my sale proceeds, even though I have to pay the shipping costs out of the money paid for it. I don’t even want to imagine what happens if the actual shipping costs to Australia are taken as the basis. Those are €27.49 if the package is accepted, although it exceeds the maximum dimensions for this size by a few centimeters. If that is not the case, shipping costs of €55 and change would be added. And if that were really used as the basis for calculating the basic campaign strategy fees, those fees would far exceed my earnings. I would actually be happy for the Australian buyer to get such a cheap purchase. But honestly, I’m considering just reversing this sale, because I really don’t think it’s fair to count the shipping costs toward the sale proceeds, since that is simply factually wrong and the shipping costs have to be paid for the shipment. This can only be a mistake, right, or is that correct?

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