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Return Cost

What an eBay return actually costs you, after the fee eBay keeps and the two shipping labels nobody counts.

Screenshots, not a working copy. This product is a single self-contained HTML file, so publishing a usable one here would be handing it out for free. What you see below is the real tool running, photographed at full page height with the values shown — nothing is mocked up, redrawn or retouched.

What it looks like

A $42 sale that came back in resellable condition.
A $42 sale that came back in resellable condition. eBay credits the percentage final value fee on a full refund but keeps the per-order fee. The outbound label is spent, and a seller-paid return label means you shipped the same item twice. Total: $13.80 out of pocket on a sale you no longer have.
The same return, but the item came back damaged.
The same return, but the item came back damaged. Switching the outcome to damaged removes the recovered-item credit, so the cost rises by exactly the item's cost. The three outcomes are tested against each other: damaged must cost exactly the item more than resellable.

What I ran before shipping it

  • 73 assertions, each of the 8 return scenarios recomputed independently, including that the breakdown shown adds up to the total.
  • The $10 per-order-fee tier tested on both sides — $10.00 and $10.01.
  • Deliberately eBay-only. Poshmark, Mercari and Etsy post-sale refund rules could not be verified to the same standard, so they are excluded rather than guessed at.

Get it

Return Cost — $1

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