Analysis of a sale

I just sold a motherboard on Bonanza. That’s good. But I was surprised at the fees. It looks like there was one view via Google, presumably the sale, and I was charged 9% on the item’s price without shipping.

That actually amounts to more than I pay on ebay. I still will list here, as the more exposure the better, but I thought the fee structure here would save me money over ebay. (I have a store on ebay, which gives me fees at about 4%).

One other observation. There was no First Class shipping option on Bonanza. There was Media Mail, and Library Mail which I never heard of, but no First Class. Consequently I had to ship from elsewhere, which required entering shipping details on Bonanza manually.

Anyway, it was good to make a sale.

asked about 8 years ago

5 Comments

Calhan_Mercantile says: May 15, 2017

You may have your advertising set at 9%. Go into booth settings and hit advertising it will tell you.

GoldenRuleComputing says: May 15, 2017

Yes, it is set at 9%.

Atomicdiner says: May 16, 2017

Since you signed at 9%, that gets it into Google Shopping. Only way to get charged lower fee is if the sale comes inhouse from a Bonz member inHouse here (3.5%) Happy Sales to U.

EmbellishMart says: May 17, 2017

Congrats on your sale anyway :) . Sandi-EmbellishMart/Bead Tonic

EmbellishMart says: May 17, 2017

But, without that 9% advertising you may have not gotten that sale, since the sale seems to have come from Google. So I say that advertising level is worth it. That’s what I chose. :)

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Hi @GoldenRuleComputing,

Thanks for your post and congratulations on the sale! We are sorry for any confusion surrounding the seller fees. The reason you are seeing different fees is due to your items being set up to advertise on other platforms, such as Google Shopping. The way advertising works is that we pay up front to list your items on those other sites, then you’ll pay us a slightly higher fee when an item sells.

The fee for each sale will be somewhere between 3.5% and your selected maximum commission, depending on the role advertising played in the sale, how many views it received, etc. If you hover your mouse over the blue “i” icon by each order on your Bonanza bill, you can view all the advertising details for the sale. We will always charge you the lowest commission possible and it will never exceed your maximum commission. You can read more about how advertising commission is determined on the following [URL removed]
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Advertising your listings is entirely optional and you are welcome to choose a lower commission or disable advertising entirely if you would like. You can view and edit your advertising preferences by pointing your mouse over the "Selling” link in the upper left corner of any page and selecting “Advertise Items”. Here is direct link to your advertising [URL removed] [URL removed]

So sorry for the shipping label issue. In the future, here is a link to a page that has instructions for purchasing shipping on [URL removed] [URL removed]

We’d be happy to provide you with some more information if you contact us at support@bonanza.com. Thank you!

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answered about 8 years ago

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GoldenRuleComputing says: May 20, 2017

Thanks for this answer. I just checked back, as I had received no notification. BW.

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