You are charged a Final Value Fee (FVF) if your item is sold, ends with a winning bid, or is purchased. This fee applies whether or not you actually complete the sale with the buyer. The Final Value Fee is returned in Transaction.FinalValueFee. See the eBay.com Web site online help for more information about the Final Value Fee.
The Final Value Fee for fixed price format (FixedPriceItem) and Store Inventory (StoresFixedPrice) items is returned by GetSellerTransactions, GetItemTransactions, and GetOrderTransactions on a transaction-by-transaction basis, regardless of the listing status. For all other listing types, (excluding Buy It Now purchases), the Final Value Fee is returned when the listing status is Completed.
If you request a Final Value Fee Credit, the value of Transaction.FinalValueFee will not change for the item if a credit is issued. (The credit only appears in the seller's account data.)
Not applicable to Half.com.
If the item was a Dutch auction that ended with bids (not Buy It Now purchases), the Final Value Fee is returned on a transaction-by-transaction basis in Item.SellingStatus.FinalValueFee.
Note: As of version 619, Dutch-style (multi-item) competitive-bid auctions are deprecated. eBay throws an error if you submit a Dutch item listing with AddItem or VerifyAddItem. If you use RelistItem to update a Dutch auction listing, eBay generates a warning and resets the Quantity value to 1.
See the
Field Index to learn which calls use FinalValueFee.