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About Final Value Fees
You are charged a Final Value Fee (FVF) if your item is sold, ends with a winning bid, or is purchased. This fee applies whether or not you complete the sale with the buyer.
Under certain circumstances you may request a Final Value Fee Credit. For example, you can request full credit if a buyer backed out and did not buy the item.
Click here to see how we calculate Final Value Fees.
Factors that affect Final Value Fees
The final sale price (or "final value") of your item. For auction listings, it is the final winning bid. For Fixed Price or Buy It Now items, it is the purchase price.
Type of listing. Examples include the following:
Single Items: Final Value Fee is based on the final sale price (or "final value") of your item.
Multiple Items-Fixed Price Listings: The Final Value Fee is calculated per item sold and based on the final sale price of each item.
Multiple Item-Online Auction Listings (Dutch Auctions): The Final Value Fee for a Multiple Item Auction Listing (Dutch auction) is determined by multiplying the Final Value Fee of the lowest successful bid by the number of items sold.
Regular Auction-style Listings: The final value is the closing bid when the reserve has been met.
Reserve Price Auction-style Listings: There is no Final Value Fee charged if the reserve is not met.
Auction-style or Fixed Price Listings in Business & Industrial Categories: Items listed in certain Business & Industrial categories have a different Final Value Fee. See our main Fees page for details.
Store Inventory Listings: Items listed in Store Inventory format (in any category) have a different Final Value Fee. See the eBay Stores Fees page for details.
eBay Motors Vehicles: eBay does not charge a Final Value Fee. Instead, eBay charges a Transaction Services Fee. The Transaction Services Fee is charged when the first bid is made or your reserve price is met. If your vehicle listing ends without any bids, or the reserve not being met, you will not be charged this Transaction Services Fee. There is no additional fee charged after the vehicle is sold. The parts category in eBay Motors uses the Final Value Fee structure. For more information, see eBay Motors Fees
eBay Real Estate: The Final Value Fees are based on real estate types (land, commercial, residential, for example) and apply only when there is a successful high bid on the item. For more information, see eBay Real Estate Fees.
You will not be charged a Final Value Fee if:
There were no bids on your item.
There were no bids that met your reserve price in the case of a Reserve Price Auction.
Your posting is a Real Estate non-binding listing.
Your auction was in the Residential, Commercial or Other Real Estate Category.
Your item or service was listed using a Classified Ad Listing.
Related Help topics
Multiple Item Listing
Final Value Fee Credits
Final Value Fee Credit Abuse
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