Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
Originally posted by: captmorgandrinker
Originally posted by: dra600n
Originally posted by: tbone3969
Originally posted by: dra600n
Originally posted by: GamingSuperHero
The eBay sales tax hit me as well in Canada. Another charge on top of the Pitney Bowes nonsense, conversions and over priced shipping. $100 item=$180-200item after all the nonsense.
Can you show a screenshot of this? I don't believe you're getting 80-100% inflated fees. It's also not ebay sales tax, it's taxed based solely on the state of the sale (where the seller is from). Highest sales tax AFAIK is 7.5%, which is significantly less than your 80-100% increase.
I live in New York and I get whacked 8.875% from sales tax on eBay.
When you purchase from anywhere, or when you buy from someone who lives in NY?
When I googled "highest sales tax", it listed California at 7.5%. Looking at NY's sales tax, the state tax is 4% but NY has this funny clause where it allows counties to add sales tax on top of it, so while 7.5% is technically correct, that doesn't account for unique situations such as NY's.
Does ebay whack you for sales tax from the buyer's location or the seller's? I've gotten hit with it on transactions from Japan.
Only buyer location should matter.
I think i was angry when i wrote that haha. In Canada, we do get hit really hard when buying stuff from the US through ebay. Its mainly because of the poor dollar conversion, and the rediculous pitney and bowes global shipping program. Sellers using that program transforms a $50US item (15-20 in shipping then 10 in import fees) into an item that can go up to $80US which is about $100cad. I understand the cad dollar is like 70-75% to the us dollar but from a Canadian's perspective its deceiving when you see an item and ur thinking oh its only $50... when its all said and done its almost double that after all the nonsense! Thats just for a flat rate small box as well. Nothing crazy.
I used to only buy stuff if a US seller used USPS for their shipping provider because I could buy things without being dinged up to about $250 and shipping would typically be between $8-15. (side note:The Canadian dollar was also about 90-95% to the US dollar at that time so it wasn't so bad). Now it doesn't make a difference. Biting the bullet has never hurt harder than now.. I'm sure it works the same way for an American buying something from Canada thats if the Canadian priced their items accordingly to
US rates.
As for the taxes... Like i said I think I was angry after I bought something and was a bit clouded hahah To correct myself, I think we only get hit by taxes from stuff in Canada outside our own province. I haven't noticed any tax charges from the US which makes sense since I'm in Canada. Regardless, buying stuff from the US right now is a nightmare as I described above. Although I still do it from time to time cause there is too much good shit there that i know i'll most likely never come across.