Ebay fees

dimejinky99

I sold a few bits on ebay earlier in the year and probably stupidly assumed they took their fees out of the transaction at the end. Now it seems theyve sold the €34 i owe them onto some debt collection agency. Anyone know best way to deal with this?

RoadKillTs

Anyone know best way to deal with this?

Pay the 34 euro! Whats the big deal?

PCPhoto

^^^^^^ What he/she said !!!

Judgement Day

dimejinky99 wrote: »

I sold a few bits on ebay earlier in the year and probably stupidly assumed they took their fees out of the transaction at the end. Now it seems theyve sold the €34 i owe them onto some debt collection agency. Anyone know best way to deal with this?

Crap and all as eBay are, it is quite clear that you have to pay listing fees and final sale fees. They would have emailed you warning that the fees were due; then they would have emailed you a number of times that the fees were overdue. You would have had plenty of warning. Now is the time to bite the bullet - pay the debt collecting agency before any further charges are added on. Cease trading on eBay until you fully understand their system. Check your email regularly.

kumate_champ07

dimejinky99 wrote: »

I sold a few bits on ebay earlier in the year and probably stupidly assumed they took their fees out of the transaction at the end. Now it seems theyve sold the €34 i owe them onto some debt collection agency. Anyone know best way to deal with this?

the agency is prob part/owned of ebay, the agency has their own solicitors. u will get a warning from the agency, followed by a solicitors letter, then maybe a court order, the 34euro bill will grow to alot more

best thing to do is ring the agency straight away and tell them you will pay them, they are easy to deal with if you actually plan on paying them, u can get extra time if you need, 34euro is not hard to get together

I owed 500euro to an agency and managed to get it reduced to 350, it would have cost the agency extra money to chase me so we worked out a deal as I could not afford 500 at the time and didnt believe I owed that much money in the first place. point is you can easily work things out with them, communicate and pay or get your credit rating hit badly and dont expect to get treated nicely when youre looking for a small bank loan in the future

Ruxjit

I just had to pay up €68 to eBay, final notice and all that, I decided to just pay it and take it as a lesson learned (the hard way) , like the OP I thought all fees were taken out of my payment. I had over €20 taken out of the winning bid (€640) So I had to pay around €90 altogether. ****ing rip off!!

A Dub in Glasgo

That was probably be the Paypal fee taken when the payment gets to your account and then ebay bill you their fee (normally 10%)