10% to FeeBay on the total of Price and Shipping. 30cents + 2.9% of the total amount of the payment to BayPal.

On low $ transactions the 30 cents will kill you. That's why you see many chip auctions for multiple chips to get the price up a bit. Also most sellers will not give a shipping discount if you make multiple payments when ordering several chips together. Put that in your auctions, that the multiple auctions MUST be paid for with ONE payment on ONE invoice to receive the shipping discount. If the buyers are unsure, have them contact you for a revised invoice PRIOR to payment, so you can group the chips together on one invoice. (It's pretty easy to do this.) Sometimes eBay's system will not do the grouping automatically and the buyer seems to be making one payment from their end of things, but FeeBayPal still logs it as several separate transactions and you're out enough $ for it to be really annoying.

Know that FeeBayPal can automatically withdraw funds from you account if they decide for any or no reason to refund the buyer. This can happen from PayPal for up to 6 months after the transaction (!) if some scammer does a credit card reversal.

Ship only by tracked methods, (about $2.25 for a 3 ounce first class package) or be willing to assume all risk of loss, legitimate Post Office goof ups, as well as scammers. I tend to sell a bunch of cheap chips, and only charge $1 postage and take the risk. But I have been hit by scammers, who as soon as they see that there was no tracking on the package, file an INR (Item Not Received) with eBay, which they automatically win, and eBay automatically deducts the amount from your account.

eBay is totally Buyer oriented. They do not give a damn about sellers in any way, shape or form. Never forget that! I sold a $1000 guitar. The buyer said it was "Unplayable and Unfixable", and demanded a refund. We had had the guitar evaluated by a local Guitar shop to get an idea of price, they offered us $600 for it the week before we eBay'd it. They would not have made a cash offer of that amount if the guitar was "unfixable". Didn't matter. eBay decided in the Buyers favor. Had to pay $125 in shipping to have the buyer send the guitar back to me. It was in perfect pristine condition when I got it back (thank goodness!). SO, I was out $250 in shipping (125 each way), so this Idiot could check out weather he liked the guitar or not. I had another buyer return a set of Poker chips... 5 of the 300, listed as used vintage chips, were slightly warped. Out $40 in shipping on that one.

So, with all of the negative stuff... I still sell a lot on eBay. 15 years of doing it. I usually use all of the 50 free listings per month. In the past year I've lost 2 packages to scammers, and the Guitar/chip set incidents. What are you going to do? It's still the best way to sell a lot of the items we have. The Chipboard is a God-Send, but there is a MUCH larger pool of buyers on eBay. On the small time chips I have, the Chipboard folks are mostly more advanced in their collections, whereas eBayer's will lap them up. I normally sell about 25% of my postings on the first try, if they are reasonably priced.

If I haven't totally put you off of the idea, I'll be glad to help you get started on eBay. There are lots of different selling strategies that work well.

Steve