eBay order
SO-51672
Deliveredlost moneyeBay reference 14-27501-65069. Placed on Mon 12 Oct at 13:05 by Fiona Walker of Nottingham.
Customer paid
£14.00
Profit
-£0.79
This order lost money
It cost £0.79 more to fulfil than it brought in. The profit ledger below shows where it went.
Items and where each unit comes from
1 itemFell Running Socks
Ember, S FS-FRS-EMB-S
£14.00
1 × £14.00
Unit 7, bin D18picked and packed in Leeds
What this order did to stock
Stock →24ready to sell in Unit 7 (24 on the shelf, 0 reserved for open orders)
What each channel shows now
24
3223
23Shopify, Amazon and TikTok Shop were updated in 0.8 s.
Fell Running Socks 3-pack (Ember, S): 8 can still be sold.
Profit on this order
Profit →Worked out from the order itself: what the customer paid, less VAT, fees, stock, postage and packaging.
Sale
1 item at the eBay price
£14.00
Shipping charged
delivery is inside the eBay price
£0.00
Customer paid
£14.00
VAT
one sixth of what the customer paid, owed to HMRC
- £2.33
eBay fee
Final value fee 12.8% + 30p, 14.9% here
- £2.09
Ad fee
promoted listing, 8% of the sale
- £1.12
Stock cost
what the units cost from Aldermoor Hosiery
- £3.40
Postage
DPD Next Day label
- £5.40
Packaging
recycled mailer and label from Calder Packaging
- £0.45
Loss on this order
-7% of the sale after VAT
-£0.79
Why it lost money
Promoted listing (8% ad fee) that promises next-day delivery at no charge to the buyer. On one pair of socks, the fees and the DPD label cost more than the sale brings in.
Delivery
DPD
Next Day
Delivered Tue 13 Oct 09:40.
Tracking15509289949
To Fiona Walker, Nottingham
Customer
FWFiona Walker
Nottingham · customer since 7 Jun 2025
In the last 14 days
Orders
2
Spent
£164.00
Returns
0
Buys on
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Timeline
Order received from eBay (14-27501-65069)
Auto · Mon 12 Oct 13:05
Stock reserved in Unit 7: 1 × Fell Running Socks. Other listings updated in 0.8 s
Auto · Mon 12 Oct 13:05
Added to a pick wave, sorted by bin, courier and label chosen
Auto · Mon 12 Oct 13:30
Picked and packed by Lewis. DPD Next Day label printed
Lewis · Mon 12 Oct 14:10
Collected by DPD, tracking 15509289949. Customer emailed the tracking link
Auto · Mon 12 Oct 16:00
Delivered
DPD · Tue 13 Oct 09:40