Estimated fee on eBay - Calculated how?

Hello, can someone help understand how they calculate import fees on ebay?

Why when I look at the estimated fees on an item from the UK (I live in Italy) a 120£ item has like a fee of around 7euro, while another at 90£ has a fee of like 20euro [same item/category].

What they use to calculate the estimated fee? Thanks

Are you talking about required int’l shipping fees through eBay’s Global Shipping Program, or import charges from your country’s customs offices?

About the fees of eBay’s GSP that includes customs/import charges

no one? :sob:

Just a guess but check if both users are registered as businesses as I have a feeling if a seller is a registered business then it charges you extra import tax upfront. Could be wrong here but it wouldn’t surprise me

The funny thing is that I checked the ite that I bought and now it says that the estimated fee is 9,30£ while when I bought it over 1 month ago it was and I paid 9,81£. It says that the shipping cost if more or less half what I paid though. (The seller is registered as a professional seller)

Why for the same exact item the estimated fee fluctuates -.-

Guess I’ll try to see what I can find on ebay’s site. Probably it varies from the carrier and other little things. Still the fact that an item that costs half of a similar item but has double the import fees is quite strange :l

Ostensibly, it appears like the appropriate Imposta sul valore aggiunto-rate of 22% have been applied to the £90 purchase but not the £120. Only thing I can think of is that the GSP mistakenly applied the 5% reduced UK tax rate.

www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/ ,if you want to learn why you saved import percentages on the £120 purchase when you technically shouldn’t have.

For purchases outside of EU eBay automatically calculates the VAT on check out according to your country’s customs tax percentage (24% for me for example). Last time I bought something with GSP was from the UK and it went the same way on check out

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Thank you both for your reply (@xzini, @c0ll3ct0r). Yes, in Italy VAT is at 22% and I know there are tresholds that determine the import fees (e.g.: if the item value is over 150euro they apply another set of excise/duties and so on).

Also on eBay I found this, so it seems that there’s more fees than just VAT applied (like for example the Third party brokerade fees):