{"id":398,"date":"2014-11-24T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-11-08T23:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T03:11:50","slug":"are-ebay-transactions-permissible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/are-ebay-transactions-permissible\/","title":{"rendered":"Are eBay transactions permissible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My question is if I list an item on the online auction site eBay and the item sells for a certain amount am I allowed to pay eBay a commission of 10% of what the buyer paid me?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Also when the sale has been completed the buyer sends the money from his PayPal account to the sellers PayPal account where then PayPal charge the reciever of the money a percentage depending on the amount of money that is being transferred<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Please could you confirm whether or not the above mentioned transactions are interest related thank you<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>As-sal\u0101mu \u2018alaykum wa-rahmatull\u0101hi wa-barak\u0101tuh.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eBay is the world&#8217;s online marketplace; a place for buyers and sellers to come together and trade almost anything.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PayPal is an online payment service that allows individuals and businesses to transfer funds electronically.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The commission paid to eBay would regarded as a fee in exchange for the usage of their facilities provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Similarly, the percentage taken by PayPal for the transferred amount is a fee, for their services in facilitating the transferral of the money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The above mentioned transactions are permissible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And Allah Ta\u2019\u0101la Knows Best<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Arshad Ali<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Trinidad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Checked and Approved by,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\nMufti Ebrahim Desai.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.ebay.com\/help\/account\/questions\/about-ebay.html\">http:\/\/pages.ebay.com\/help\/account\/questions\/about-ebay.html<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How eBay works:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A seller lists an item on eBay, most anything from antiques to cars, books to sporting goods. The seller chooses to accept only bids for the item (an auction-type listing) or to offer the Buy It Now option, which allows buyers to purchase the item right away at a fixed price.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an online auction, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days. Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a Buy It Now listing, the first buyer willing to pay the seller&#8217;s price gets the item<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.howstuffworks.com\/paypal.htm\">http:\/\/money.howstuffworks.com\/paypal.htm<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: My question is if I list an item on the online auction site eBay and the item<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[70,167],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-money-and-finance","tag-ebay","tag-paypal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}