There is no listing insertion fee and after a sale You pay Final Offer Value fee (for item’s price and shipping cost above $10), which depends on the advertising level You have [URL removed] 3,5%, 9%, 13%, 19% or 30%.

There is, though, a minimum fee – $0.50.

When You sell e.g. $4 item with free shipping and You [URL removed]

- an economy 3,5 % settings, then Your fee will not be $0.14, but 0.50

- a basic 9% settings → $0.36 → You pay 0.50

- a standard 13% → $0.52 → You pay 0.52

etc.

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Hello Bon_Anne_[URL removed]

I don’t know what you mean by an “extra” 0.50, but I understand the FVF per sale to be your basic 3.5% fee (or your advertising percentage if you’ve chosen a level), OR 0.50, whichever is higher. I sell a lot of papercrafting products, and if my product is not priced high enough, I end up paying the 0.50 FVF other than my 9% advertising percentage (or 3.5% if my sale did not come through the advertising channels I think). That 0.50 could be 50% of the cost of some of my lower-priced products. It would not be at the 9% (or 3.5%) because for that rate to kick in, the product has to be priced high enough where it would cause the fee to surpass 0.50. Anything below that would always have a 0.50 fee.

I chose the 9% advertising level. If I make a sale for a product priced at $5, 9% of $5 would be 0.45, but I don’t pay that. I pay 0.50, because there must be a minimum charge per sale of at least 0.50. If I make a sale for a product priced at $5.62, I pay the actual 9% of the price as my FVF. For this sale, it would be 0.51. But if I drop below that, I pay 0.50 for the sale, no matter what percentage of the sale the 0.50 works out to be. Transactions on lower-priced products like that are good for pseudo-freebies, customer-appreciation bargains and incentives. It’s like investing in more advertising.

This may not be the info that you need, and my computations may be off, but I hope it makes some sense to whoever reads it. Feel free to share what I may have said that is incorrect in a comment to this post.

Sandi
My [URL removed]
Artsy Craftery Studio
Paper Nirvana
Bead Tonic
EmbellishMart

Don’t forget that the first $10 in stated shipping charges is NOT subject to a Bonanza FVF. For example, if you charge $12 in shipping, any FVF charged on the first $10 shipping cost is waived. So, you pay a FVF on the sale price of the item(s) PLUS the $2 in excess of the $10 that is waived. However, if you list FREE shipping, the entire transaction is subject to a sales commission.

Of course, as others stated, there is a 50 cent minimum FVF you will be charged and the percentage you pay (3.5%, 95. etc.) is based on the advertising level you choose.

You mention Bonanza taking extra money from you (possibly through your shipping account… don’t forget that Bonanza charges a separate service fee for using their shipping service.

I get that you may not have knew how much Bonanza is taking for sales. I think they are charging about 40 bucks for each business through the money I put into my car transfer account, but now. I asked for [URL removed] . I see that it seems to be an extra 50 per cent charge for a business (which makes sales my last one in every chapter 1 for me).