Here's my newest online tool, an eBay Motors Fee Calculator. If you've ever wondered how much it would cost to sell a vehicle or vehicle parts and accessories on eBay Motors, then this tool is for you. This calculator supports all of the different vehicle and listing types available on eBay Motors and includes a special option just for Parts & Accessories. You simply enter the price of your item and the calculator figures out what your fees would be and what you would receive after fees if you were to sell an item on eBay Motors for that amount. It includes options for all of the different eBay Motors listing upgrades, has a built-in series of editable fee rate tables, and can optionally include your PayPal fees as well. It also comes with a reverse fee calculator that can tell you what price to charge for your item or what amount to charge for shipping & handling to receive the amount you want after fees.

In total, this calculator took me about 4 days to make. I started working on it soon after I released my eBay Fee Calculator when a large number of people started e-mailing me asking for it. What took me the longest amount of time while making this calculator was probably the listing upgrades table. The fee calculation code only took me about 2-3 hours to write, whereas the listing upgrades table took me around 8-10 hours to make. Did you know there are 24 different listing upgrades available in eBay Motors? I've also made it so that only the available listing upgrades for the category you've selected are selectable at any given time. For example, when listing a vehicle on eBay Motors you can't use the "List in Two Categories" option, but you can use the "21-Day Duration" option. When listing in Parts & Accessories, it's vice-versa, you are able to list in two categories, but you can't use "21-Day Duration", and so on. Basically, the calculator will disable all unavailable options for whatever category you select and will enable and update the prices of all the listing upgrades that are available to you.

To calculate your fees for selling on eBay Motors you simply choose your category and enter your amounts into the empty boxes on the right. As a simple example, let’s say I was selling a car part on the Parts & Accessories category of eBay Motors for $50 and I wanted to know what my fees would be. In this example, let’s say I would be charging $10 for Shipping & Handling and my actual cost of postage was $8.50. By entering those amounts into the calculator, I can see my eBay fees would be $6.35, my PayPal fees would be $2.04 and that I would receive $43.11 after fees.

If you click on the words Total eBay Fees or on the blue arrow next to it you'll be able to see how your fees breakdown. You can see your individual Insertion Fees, Reserve Fees, Listing Upgrade Fees, and Successful Listing Fees. If you uncheck the checkbox next to Successful Listing Fees, you're basically telling the calculator there were no bids on your item, and so those fees will not be included in your total fee amounts. If your item didn't sell and you're trying to calculate your fees you would also disable the PayPal option in the Listing Options box.

By using the built-in reverse fee calculator you can find out what to charge to receive the amount you want after fees. Here, I've entered $50 as the amount I want to receive, and it shows me that I would need to sell my item for exactly $56.12 or that I would need to charge exactly $17.10 for Shipping & Handling to receive exactly $50 after fees.

The Listing Options box allows you choose whether or not you want to include your PayPal fees, and if so what your PayPal fee rate is. When Only For Deposit is checked the calculator will only compute your PayPal fees for the first $2,000 of the price of your vehicle. When it's unchecked the calculator will compute the total PayPal fees of whatever price you enter. The Vehicle Listing option allows you choose whether or not you're selling a vehicle and if so, how many vehicles you've sold in the last 12 months. Under the new eBay Motors fee structure if you are selling a vehicle and it is your 1st to 4th vehicle listing in a 12-month period you will not pay any Insertion Fees, but your Successful Listing Fees will be slightly higher. If it is your 5th or higher vehicle listing in the last 12 months, you will be charged an Insertion Fee, but your Successful Listing Fee will be slightly lower.

The Listing Upgrades table allows you to choose any optional listing upgrades you may be using in your auction and allows you to easily see and edit their prices. The reason some of the listing upgrades are disabled is because they are not available for the category you've chosen. For example, Gift Services is not available for Vehicle listings and Motors Pro Pack is not available for Parts & Accessories and so on. You may have also noticed the 30-Day Duration upgrade has a price of $0.00. Does this mean it’s free? Well yes, but only for items created using the Fixed Price Format in the Parts & Accessories category. Selecting the 30-day Listing option will not cost you any extra, however it will increase the price of some of the other listing upgrades.

Finally, the calculator also comes with a series of Editable Fee Tables. By clicking on the appropriate category you can see and edit all of the different fee rates used by the calculator for that category.

As of the time of this writing, February 13 2009, this calculator has been updated with the latest, most up-to-date eBay Motors fee rates, but it’s always a good idea to check out the official eBay Motors fees page every now and then just to make sure you’re using the latest rates.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or ideas for the calculator I would love to hear them. Just leave a comment on this page or e-mail me directly and let me know!

Previous Versions

Version 1.0 (April 23, 2008)