Delcampe fees

I am returning to Delcampe ater a long lay off and am trying to make sense of the fees for selling.

It seems to me that for a £1 sale, 22p is the fee to Delcampe ( Gold member rate), am I correct?

In addition, if the buyer uses Delcampe Pay then an additional 30p or so is taken in fees?

If this is correct, I cannot understand items on sale for 34p.

Many thanks,

John

I'm a seller in a very small way using it to shift kiloware buys, duplicates and just for the fun of it.
There are ways of covering the difference. My "break-even" price is 25p and I use "admin fee" to cover additional costs. Each buyer can look at the seller's Ts & Cs to determine the actual price of the item.

22p for a £1 sale sounds a lot but it should be remembered that the % part of the fee doesn't apply to the postage, as it does on other platforms.
Additionally you will always have transaction fees, Delcampe pay would add another 30+ fee. I dont offer Delcampe Pay as I have a Micro account with Paypal, That would add only 10p to a £1 sale.

I do agree that I dont understand some of the low prices I see on here, such as a stamp for 40p, even selling 100s at that price cant make very much.
Although I really don't mean to offend or question anyones business model or pricing structure.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
Paul

Thank you both for the replies.
I had not realised that you could add a handling charge in T & Cs so I shall think about that.
I shall also think about removing Delcampe Pay as a payment method as I have a micro account with Paypal. I do not not know how popular Delcampe Pay is with buyers. I suppose a handling charge and Delcampe Pay go together.
Best wishes for the New Year.
John

In relation to the fee charged by Delcampe Pay, it should be remembered that the fee, actually 27p not 30p, relates to the transaction as a whole, not to individual items sold, ( + a % of the overall sale value, applicable in every case ) so the fee, if say you sell 10 items to an individual customer, is still 27p, thus reducing the fee per item to less than 3p per item, and obviously even less if there is a larger number if items sold to that individual customer.

In reality, 'profit' on sales, particularly of lower price items, relies on volume sold and not individual price. Yes, if all sales were indiviual items, there would be no point in selling items at 34p, but that is not how Delcampe works in essence. The seller is reliant on buyers buying a number of items to effectively spread the cost over the whole sale. The seller therefore has to have a good store of potentially saleable items to attract buyers of multiple items, and if the occasional sale of 1 item occurs, than that is something that the sller has to be able to accommodate within their overall sales pattern.

You have also to remember that, particluarly if you are a new seller or not known to the buyer, that quite often a buyer will 'test the water' with a seller, buying only a few items first time round as much as a check on their reliability, delivery time and quality of what is being sold as anything else. They may then return to that seller and buy more and that's how a seller builds up a customer base.

Yes, it takes a while, but I have many very good long standing customers who buy substantial amounts of material for which I am very grateful but many if not most of those started in a small way. Service and stock count for a lot!

And when you add PayPal fee, the total result is : ' Money for nothing, cheeks for free !!! '

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Sorry for my written English, it seems that the dust covered it ! But with your correction, everybody will get to the point !
Thank you anyway,

Are cheeks and cheeks interchangable?

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Many thanks for the reply, very thorough and clear.

I shall have to revise my strategy (I had not really thought it through) and think about listing the many thousands of stamps that I have.

I am rather like Grand-47 above, selling in a small way for the fun of it.

John