#EBAY FEES INVOICE DOWNLOAD#

MY BAD! For 13 months I was spending money I didn’t intend on spending and I was completely annoyed with myself.

I was throwing money away each month and I didn’t even know it. I had 13 months of fees that totaled $900 and I hadn’t even noticed. Never mind that these listings were 13 months old and that spending $4 each month to have a bold title in search didn’t seem to be helping get them sold. When I saw the listings that had this extra ‘feature’ added, I realized that I created these listings so many months ago…ugh. Next, I downloaded my last two invoices, created a summary spreadsheet, and proceeded to reconcile my invoices back for a year or so. The first thing I did was go to each listing where an extra fee was being charged and changed the listing so I no longer was incurring these charges. Of course, I immediately went into reconciliation mode. I’m usually careful to verify the fees are $0.00,or so I thought! Turns out I’m not so careful after all! Take time to review your listings I usually catch these errors when I hit the “Update listing” button. When I did this too quickly, I highlighted the text underneath the title bar and that triggered the “Stand out with a bold title in search results” at a cost of $4.00 per listing. What caught my eye was $70 in Bold Listing Fees…WHAT!? How on earth did I create so many listings with that tiny box under the title checked that I racked up $70 in fees for just September? It was easy for me to figure out the “how” because I was recently listing some items and I highlighted my title to copy it and paste it in my description. I file it away in my yearly tax folder and ‘think’ I’ll get back to it later….but later never happens.

#EBAY FEES INVOICE DOWNLOAD#

Typically, I download my monthly invoices each quarter in CSV format and dump the data into an excel spreadsheet. I’m not sure what it was, but whatever it was, it caused me to take a closer look. Last month, I glanced at my invoice and something caught my eye. And it cost me A TON of money! Hopefully, my experience will keep you from making the same mistake. This should be second nature to me, but it was too easy to let slide. I let reviewing my monthly eBay invoice slide…month after month and before I knew it over a year had gone by! How did this happen? I spent 30+ years in finance and reconciled so many things each month.

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