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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.

CategoryFinal value fee

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