plus shipping and plus tax so that's forty dollars more than my offer

dang you got her tho

no I dont have merrin!

is this not a completed sale?

no this is just the pre-checkout window

oic are you still gonna do it?

I haven't put in the offer cause fuck that

maybe you can message them and see if they have her listed anywhere else

yeah I was thinking I might do that

i'd be okay with paying up to like 150$ if that wasn't like 54358439573489 bucks in fees

I just tossed them a message, lets see if they get back to me. if not its fine, i'm sure i'll have other chances to grab her!

service fee AND processing fee lmao

Jesus

what even is a processing fee!! why is there a service fee!!!

i haven't even sold on mercari in forever

I haven't made a sale since like........ may? I think?

right after they changed their fee system I made one sale and then like nada

jeez

I made one last night after you listed a few more for me!

but that was the first one in months too

yeah

Usually a processing fee is when the banking service that's managing your transaction charges the seller an amount for using the service. Usually this is very low, and when you get those charges you can choose to either absorb them, or pass them on to the customer. Most large retailers absorb them, most small ones pass them off

because of how economies of scale work, that's sort of the smart way to do it, in each instance

If you're doing a direct bank transfer, that's usually cheaper

this sort of thing is part of how companies like VISA and Mastercard make their money— whenever money passes through their hands, they take a bit off the top.

paypal, venmo, zell, all these services do the same thing as well

the Service Fee is maybe the cost of packing the order? That's an unusual charge for a small, physical item. Usually this would be the duty of an employee, who would be paid by the company, with that cost being absorbed, not passed on to the customer, so I don't know why they'd stick it in here... Have you tried clicking on the little question mark???

I'm mystified about why that's so much

or what it's for

Tax is at least straightforward

Micabean: in this case though it's the seller who packs the order so why the fuck does Mercari charge it lol

like 40 more fucking dollars between shipping, service, processing, and tax? no ty.

Is it a new option?

like seller puts fee on buyer sort of adder?

Schist: it's a newish change that Mercari made, there's nothing the seller can do about it

for a while they'd added more fees for everyone and there was huge backlash so they walked it back and now it's just on the buyer

yeah they had seller fees like you'd put it up and Mercari took a chunk of the profit - I think it was 15% or something idr

people have been hoping that it will get undone but so far they've stuck by it

I think they just got a new CEO again so there's a shot they'll go wtf is this shit and fix it

like hey dumbasses you can't make money for your service if literally no one will use it

I just bought the Ghost Town USA palette new because even the swatched one was way more expensive with fees than a new one off the site

yeah I liked the person selling it just saying lol just buy it new

I mean they're not wrong lol

they're better off buying it new!