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What Reverb takes from a sale, fee by fee, at the rates its help centre prints today. Beside it, the same sale on your own Shopify store and on eBay, and the sales a month at which a store of your own starts costing less.
Past five cancelled or refunded orders of your own in a month, the processing fee on the further ones is charged again. Reverb’s help centre prints C$680 as the Canadian maximum and its billing policy C$675; the calculator uses the help centre’s newer figure.
eBay charges one final value fee, with payment processing already inside it, on a total that includes the shipping and the tax. For Guitars & Basses it is 6.7 percent of the first $7,500 and 2.35 percent above, plus $0.40 an order. Amps and pedals have no category of their own, so they pay the 13.6 percent most categories pay.
On the worked example, a $650.00 guitar with $40.00 of shipping and 8 percent tax, eBay takes $50.33 against Reverb’s $58.76. Sell an amp for the same money and eBay takes $101.75. So the cheaper marketplace depends on the gear: eBay for a guitar or a bass, Reverb for most of the rest of the rig.
eBay adds 1.65 percent when a US seller ships abroad without eBay International Shipping, and 6 percent more on its fee for a seller rated below standard.
The fees cross earlyOn the worked example your own store costs less than Reverb from the 2nd sale in a month: a $39.00 plan against Reverb’s $58.76 on every $690.00 sale. That is the easy half of the comparison.
Finding the buyer is the other halfReverb brings the buyer to the listing; a store pays for its visitors. The breakeven ROAS calculator works out how much of each sale an ad can take before the order stops making money.
A store costs more than its planA theme, a few apps and the card fees make the real monthly bill. The Shopify vs WooCommerce cost calculator sets it out line by line, at your sales.
On a US sale, 5 percent of the item and the shipping, then 3.19 percent of the order total with the tax in plus 49 cents for payment processing. On the worked example that is $58.76 of the $690.00 the buyer pays for the guitar and the shipping, 8.5%.
Yes. The 5 percent selling fee is charged on the shipping the buyer pays, and payment processing on the whole order, shipping and tax included. A Bump is charged on the item and the shipping, without the tax.
A full refund returns the selling fee, the processing fee and any Bump fee. A partial refund returns the selling fee in proportion and nothing else. Past five cancelled or refunded orders of your own in a month, the processing fee on the further ones is charged again.
No. Reverb says sellers in the UK pay an all-in 5 percent once the gear sells, with no payment processing fee. A sale to a buyer outside the UK adds the 1 percent cross-border fee.
It depends on what you sell. For a guitar or a bass in the US, eBay’s all-in 6.7 percent comes to less than Reverb’s two fees at any price up to $7,500. For amps, pedals and most other gear, eBay charges 13.6 percent, and Reverb is the cheaper of the two.
Reverb’s paid promotion for a listing. You set a bid from 0.5 to 30 percent, and it is charged only if the Bumped listing sells, on the item and the shipping without the tax.
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What a store of your own costs each month, line by line, before its first sale.
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