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eBay fee calculator

eBay says $210.50.
You keep $120.97.

That gap is the fee stack. It catches people out because eBay takes a cut of the shipping and the sales tax as well, not just the item price. Put a sale in and you'll get every line of it.

  • All 46 category rates from eBay's full schedule. Most calculators copy the four-line summary and stop there.
  • Cliff categories handled properly. Four of them re-rate the entire sale once you cross a threshold, which is where the expensive mistakes come from.
  • Nothing to sign up for.

The sale

Store subscription

Your costs

Promoted listings, tax, listing fees

Settlement

Most categories · no store

Buyer pays

Item40.00
Shipping8.00
Sales tax3.36
Order total51.36

eBay takes

Per-order fee0.40
Total eBay fees7.38

You receive

Order total51.36
eBay fees−7.38
Sales tax remitted−3.36
eBay pays you40.62

Your costs

Item cost−8.00
Shipping cost−7.00

Profit

25.62

Margin
53.4%
ROI
170.8%
Break even at
$18.42

Store check

Rates effective —

What eBay actually charges

Four things come out of a sale, and only the first one is the one people remember.

Final value fee
The main commission. Anywhere from 2.5% to 15.3% depending on what you sold it in. It comes off the total the buyer paid, which includes the shipping and the sales tax, not just the item price. That's the part people get wrong when they work it out on the back of a receipt.
Per-order fee
$0.30 on orders of $10 or less, $0.40 on anything above. A few categories skip it.
Insertion fee
Your first 250 listings each month are free, then it's $0.35 each. A store subscription raises the allowance.
Promoted listings
Optional, and it stacks. A 5% ad rate in a 13.6% category puts you at 18.6% before the per-order fee.

Marginal rates and cliffs

Most categories are marginal. In the usual case that's 13.6% on the first $7,500 and 2.35% on anything above it. Jewelry, Bullion, Handbags and Athletic Shoes don't work that way. Cross the threshold in one of those and the rate changes on the whole sale, not just the amount above the line.

So a $6,000 jewelry sale is charged 9% on all $6,000. That's $540. Run it as a marginal bracket and you'd get $840 instead. Plenty of calculators do get this wrong, because they ask you to type in one flat percentage and there isn't one.

Athletic shoes are the worst of it. At $150 or more you pay 8% and no per-order fee. A penny below $150 and it's 13.6% with the per-order fee back on. A $149 pair and a $151 pair are charged on completely different terms.

Final value fee by category

This is eBay's full published schedule. It's also the same file the calculator above reads from, so the table and the maths can't drift apart. Switch tables to see what a store subscription changes — and if you're weighing up whether a store is worth it, the store fees page has the break-even maths by category. Vehicles aren't in this table at all: cars, motorcycles and boats pay a flat fee with no final value fee.

CategoryFinal value fee
Most categories
Covers: eBay Motors > Parts & Accessories · Automotive Tools & Supplies · Safety & Security Accessories
13.6% up to $7,500 2.35% on the portion above $7,500
Books & Magazines, Movies & TV, Music
Covers: Books & Magazines · Movies & TV (except Movie NFTs) · Music (except Vinyl Records and Music NFTs)
15.3% up to $7,500 2.35% on the portion above $7,500
Coins & Paper Money (except Bullion)
Covers: sellers say: coins, banknotes, currency
13.25% up to $7,500 2.35% on the portion above $7,500
Coins & Paper Money > Bullionwhole sale
Covers: sellers say: gold bars, silver bars, bullion coins
13.6% if $7,500 or less 7% above that
Select Collectibles (comics, trading cards, CCG)
Covers: Comic Books & Memorabilia · Non-Sport Trading Cards · Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop > Sports Trading Cards · Toys & Hobbies > Collectible Card Games — sellers say: Pokémon cards, sports cards, baseball cards, Magic: The Gathering
13.25% up to $7,500 2.35% on the portion above $7,500
Jewelry & Watches (except Watches, Parts & Accessories)whole sale
Covers: sellers say: rings, necklaces, earrings, loose gemstones
15% if $5,000 or less 9% above that
Jewelry & Watches > Watches, Parts & Accessories
Covers: sellers say: wristwatches, watch bands, watch parts
15% up to $1,000 6.5% on $1,000–$7,500 3% on the portion above $7,500
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Women > Women's Bags & Handbagswhole sale
Covers: sellers say: purses, designer handbags
15% if $2,000 or less 9% above that
Athletic Shoes (sneakers)whole saleno per-order fee at $150+
Covers: Men > Men's Shoes > Athletic Shoes · Women > Women's Shoes > Athletic Shoes
13.6% if under $150 8% above that
NFT categories
Covers: Art NFTs · CCG NFTs · Emerging NFTs · Movie NFTs · Music NFTs · Non-Sport Trading Card NFTs · Sport Trading Card NFTs
5% of the sale
Select Business & Industrial (Heavy Equipment, Commercial Printing Presses, Food Trucks)
Covers: Heavy Equipment, Parts & Attachments > Heavy Equipment · Printing & Graphic Arts > Commercial Printing Presses · Restaurant & Food Service > Food Trucks, Trailers & Carts
3% up to $15,000 0.5% on the portion above $15,000
Musical Instruments & Gear > Guitars & Basses
Covers: sellers say: electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass guitars
6.7% up to $7,500 2.35% on the portion above $7,500

Quick answers by category

Rates below are read from the same schedule file as the calculator, so they update together. Where a category has a split or cliff rate, the answer says so.

What are eBay’s fees for trading cards?
Sports cards, non-sport trading cards and collectible card games all sit in eBay’s select-collectibles bucket: 13.25% of the sale up to $7,500, plus the per-order fee ($0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above that).
What are eBay’s fees for Pokémon cards?
Pokémon cards fall under Collectible Card Games, so the rate is 13.25% — the same as sports cards and comics — plus the per-order fee.
What are eBay’s fees for sneakers?
Athletic shoes have a split rate: 13.6% with the per-order fee when the sale is under $150, but 8% with no per-order fee at $150 or more. Exactly $150 gets the lower rate.
What are eBay’s fees for electronics?
Without a store subscription, electronics pay the most-categories rate of 13.6%. With a Basic Store or above, consumer electronics drop to 9.35% — one of the larger store discounts.
What are eBay’s fees for coins?
Coins and paper money (except bullion) pay 13.25%. Bullion is different: 13.6% if the sale is $7,500 or less, 7% on the whole sale if it is over that.
What are eBay’s fees for jewelry?
15% if the sale is $5,000 or less. Over that, the rate on the whole sale drops to 9% — it re-rates everything, not just the excess.
What are eBay’s fees for watches?
Watches, parts and accessories pay 15% on the first $1,000, then 6.5% up to $7,500. Other jewelry uses the jewelry rate instead.
What is the eBay per-order fee?
A flat $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above that, charged on top of the final value fee on every order.

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