This spreadsheet helps you calculate how much it would cost to sell on eBay. You simply enter the price of your item and you can see what your fees and profit would be in any of eBay's listing formats including Auction Format, "List 5 Free" Format, Fixed Price Format, Store Inventory Format, and Classified Ad Format. For advanced users, there is a way for you to reverse calculate your fees to determine what amount to charge for your item (or what to charge for S&H) to receive the amount you want after fees. You can keep a record of your sales using the included Sales Log worksheet or print out a chart showing what your fees would be for common amounts using the included Fees Chart worksheet. You can also reverse calculate price or S&H for a large number of items at once using bonus "Markup" worksheet. If eBay ever changes their fees in the future (or you want to calculate the fees for another service) you can edit all of the fee rates used by the spreadsheet using the included "Edit Fee Rates" worksheet.
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Here are some handy bookmarklets I've created for eBay that will save you some time. Bookmarklets are like regular bookmarks in your web browser except they do something useful when you click on them (read more about bookmarklets on Wikipedia). For example, let's say you shop on eBay a lot and you always buy from the same 3 sellers (John, Mary, and Sue). Every day you check back on eBay to see if John, Mary, or Sue have any new items for sale. In this case most people would just create 3 seperate bookmarks in their web browser, one for John's page, one for Mary's page, and one for Sue's page. But what if there was a way to combine those three bookmarks into one? Well, with a bookmarklet, you can! When you click on the bookmarklet it would ask you which seller's items you want to see, then you enter a seller's name and all of their available items would come up. Bookmarklets are kind of like interactive bookmarks. They can can save you time by allowing you to jump to common eBay destinations faster. To use these bookmarklets simply drag each link to the bookmarks toolbar in your web browser or right-click on them and choose "Add to Bookmarks".

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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.

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Since a lot of people have been requesting it lately, here's my new eBay Stores Fee Calculator. If you look at the fees page for eBay Stores, you'll notice their fee structure is very different from eBay.com. This is because having an eBay Store requires you to pay a monthly subscription fee and Store listings have an increased duration of 30 days. Store listings also have slightly different visibility on eBay.com, which you can read more about on their FAQ page. Since the fees for eBay Stores are so much different I thought it would be better to make a entirely new calculator just for them rather than adding them as an option into my existing eBay fee calculator.

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Today I've just finished with the redesign of my eBay Fee Calculator. This is a free online tool I've made to allow people to easily calculate what their total eBay and PayPal fees would be to sell an item on eBay. You can also use it to reverse calculate your eBay fees to determine what amount you would need to sell your item for to receive the amount you want after fees. To learn more about selling on eBay, you can read eBay's help page How do I sell on eBay? or visit their official fees page for more info.

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