posted on December 19, 2000 10:18:37 AM new
I have had such a good month on ebay that I have received THE notice from Paypal that I am approaching my limit as a personal user. Can anyone tell me how YOU pass the Credit Card Charge on to your customer? Do you have a set fee? Elaborate please!!!!
mzkittie
posted on December 19, 2000 10:26:43 AM new
Congratulations!
I wouldn't directly pass on a PayPal charge. Either build it into your price or as part of your shipping costs. Most of my items have just the .30 fee so it's usually absorbed by shipping costs or part of the markup of the sale.
The cost of business should never be seen by the customer. Imagine buying something at the store and seeing an itemized list of everything: rent, storage, delivery, electricity... Wouldn't make it very appealing.
posted on December 19, 2000 10:32:02 AM new
You can approach this a few different way.
You can say - the cost of using the PayPal system is a legitimate business expense and I wont worry about it, but just deduct it off my taxes.
You can figure out what your average sale is, calculate the cost of using the PayPal Business account on that sale, and add a set "handling" fee to all your auctions.
You can guesstimate what each item you are selling will sell for, figure out the PayPal fee for that item, and either start the item at what you were going to start it at PLUS the fee, or add a handling fee to reflect that particular sale.
You can accept PayPal, but stipulate NO credit cards.
You can go back to check or money order, or use one of the other payment systems that are not currently charging such as PayDirect.
