Marketplace Selling Fees in 2026: What Resellers Actually Keep

Key takeaways for 2026

If you only remember seven things from this guide, remember these. They are the answers search engines and language models get asked every day, and they are the answers that change buy boxes, list boxes, and markdown cadence.

• Local pickup is still the fee champion. Craigslist “for sale” in most US cities, Facebook Marketplace local pickup, and OfferUp local meets are $0 platform commission when payment happens outside checkout.
• Depop is not “free” in the US. The 10% selling fee is gone for eligible US sales, but Depop Payments still takes 3.3% + $0.45 on the transaction.
• Mercari is not free either. The 2023–24 $0 seller-fee era ended. New and updated listings pay 10% on item price plus buyer-paid shipping.
• eBay is not “13%.” Most categories without a Store are 13.6% of the total sale (item + shipping + tax) up to $7,500, plus a $0.30 / $0.40 per-order fee.
• Poshmark is simple and expensive: $2.95 under $15, 20% at $15 and up, on item price only.
• Whatnot is two fees, not one: about 8% commission on sale price plus 2.9% + $0.30 processing on checkout value.
• The fee base matters more than the headline percent. Charging 10% on item + shipping is not the same as 10% on item only. That is how a “cheaper” platform loses to a “more expensive” one.

Marketplace selling fees in 2026: all eight at a glance

The table below is the comparison people actually want when they search “lowest marketplace fees for resellers” or ask a chatbot which app takes the smallest cut. It models a $50 item price with no buyer-paid shipping and no tax in the fee base, US seller, standard category, no ads, no Store subscription. That is not how every live sale works. It is how you compare apples before you add the bruises.

Read the last column as a ranking of take-home on this toy example, not as a ranking of which marketplace you should use. Poshmark can still be the right list for a dress that dies on Craigslist. eBay can still be the right list for a laptop that needs sold comps and national reach. Fees tell you the cost of the channel. Sell-through tells you whether the channel clears.

Official places to re-check before you trust a number in a listing tool, a spreadsheet, or this article: eBay selling fees, Whatnot seller fees, Depop seller fees, OfferUp shipping policy, and Meta’s onsite checkout terms (US Marketplace: 10% with a $0.80 minimum). Poshmark and Mercari publish the current seller commission in their in-app help and payout screens.

The fee base is the trap: item vs shipping vs tax

Headline percents are how platforms market themselves. Fee bases are how they bill you. If you remember one technical idea from this post, remember this: percent × wrong base = wrong profit.

Three bases show up over and over in 2026:

• Item price only. Poshmark’s 20% and Whatnot’s commission are modeled on the item’s sale price. Buyer-paid shipping does not inflate the commission line—though Whatnot still runs processing on checkout value.
• Item + buyer-paid shipping. Mercari’s 10% and eBay’s final value fee are the classic examples. A $50 item with $12 buyer shipping is not a $50 fee event.
• Full checkout (item + shipping + tax). eBay final value, Depop processing, Facebook shipped checkout, and Whatnot processing can all touch tax or shipping depending on the product. That is why a “13.6%” eBay sale on a $50 item plus $10 shipping plus tax is not $6.80.

Work a Mercari example because it is the one resellers still get wrong from stale “Mercari is free” posts. $50 item, $8 buyer-paid shipping: 10% × $58 = $5.80, not $5.00. The extra $0.80 is the shipping line hiding in the fee. OfferUp shipping is the opposite design: 12.9% of the item’s final price, excluding shipping, $1.99 minimum, with the buyer paying the label. Same word—“shipping sale”—two different bills.

This is also why a deal score that ignores fees is a toy. Researching resale value without a fee-aware floor is how you buy a $20 “deal” that is a $4 payday after Poshmark, supplies, and a label.

How much does eBay take from sellers in 2026?

For most US categories, a seller without an eBay Store pays a final value fee of 13.6% on the total amount of the sale up to $7,500 per item, then 2.35% on the portion above $7,500, plus a per-order fee of $0.30 when the order is $10.00 or less and $0.40 when it is over $10. The “total amount of the sale” is the trap: item price, shipping the buyer paid, and applicable sales tax can all sit in that base.

On the $50 no-shipping toy example that is 13.6% × $50 = $6.80, plus $0.40, or $7.20. On a $50 item with $12 shipping and no tax, the same math is 13.6% × $62 = $8.43 plus $0.40, or $8.83. That is why people still say “eBay takes about 15%” even though the card rate is 13.6%. The per-order fee and the shipping base do the rest.

Category exceptions are real and they are not trivia. Books, movies, and music (except vinyl) run higher, commonly cited at 15.3%. Athletic shoes at $150 or more are a famous cut-rate at 8% with the per-order fee often waived. Guitars and basses sit far lower. Jewelry, watches, and women’s handbags have their own ladders. Store subscribers in most categories often see 12.7% up to a lower threshold rather than 13.6% up to $7,500. If you live in one of those categories, do not use the “most categories” row as your buy box.

Insertion fees still exist after you burn the monthly free listing allotment (250 for many non-Store sellers; Stores get more). Promoted Listings, international fees, and returns are optional or situational costs on top. None of those belong in a first-pass comparison table, and all of them belong in a serious profit tracker once you are actually selling through eBay.

eBay is still the comps backbone for a lot of general merchandise. That is why Botifex Deal Score leans on eBay solds for a resale range even when you source the buy on Craigslist or Facebook. The fee you will pay if you exit on eBay is part of that range. Ignore it and you will treat an eBay sold of $120 as “worth $120,” then wonder why the wire is $103.

Poshmark seller fees: $2.95 or 20%

Poshmark’s US seller fee in 2026 is still the structure everyone memorizes: $2.95 flat on sales under $15, 20% on sales of $15 or more. No listing fee. No separate payment-processing line. Commission is on item price, not on the buyer’s shipping.

The $15 cliff is a pricing rule, not a suggestion. At $12, $2.95 is a 24.6% effective rate. At $14.99 you are still in flat-fee land. At $15 the fee is $3.00 even, or 20%. Bundling two $8 tees into a $16 lot is how experienced Poshers stop donating a quarter of the ticket to the platform.

Why would anyone pay 20% when Mercari is 10% and Depop is processing-only? Audience and behavior. Poshmark is still a fashion and accessories social graph: shares, offers, OTL, and a buyer who expects a branded experience. A dress that needs that graph will not become a better business because you listed it on Craigslist for $0 fees and watched it sit. High fees plus high sell-through can beat low fees plus a dead listing. The mistake is paying Poshmark rates on a SKU that would have sold local in 48 hours.

Shipping on Poshmark is a buyer-paid label in the standard US flow, which is why the 20% feels “all-in” compared with eBay. You still fund discounts you offer, overweight upcharges you eat, and supplies. Those are not Poshmark’s commission, and they still come out of true profit.

Mercari seller fees in 2026: 10%, not zero

If your mental model of Mercari is “no seller fees,” it is two years out of date. Mercari reintroduced a seller fee in January 2025. As of 2026, new and updated listings pay 10% on item price plus buyer-paid shipping. Listing remains free. There is no separate seller payment-processing line on that current model. Buyers see a Buyer Protection fee (commonly cited at 3.6%) at checkout that does not come out of your payout—but it can change what a buyer will accept.

On a $50 item with $0 buyer shipping, you keep $45. On a $50 item with $8 buyer shipping, you keep $50 − $5.80 = $44.20 before the label you may still have to buy if you offered free shipping instead. Free shipping looks cleaner on the fee line and nastier on the cash line. That is not a Mercari quirk. It is every marketplace that lets you subsidize postage.

Mercari still matters for general merchandise, collectibles, and the overlap with Whatnot and eBay. It is often the middle of the fee stack: more expensive than Depop processing, cheaper than eBay most-categories, much cheaper than Poshmark. Use it as a channel, not as a religion.

Does Depop charge a selling fee in the US?

For eligible US sellers in 2026, Depop does not charge a Depop selling commission. That is the true part of the “Depop is fee-free” posts. The false part is the next sentence they skip: Depop Payments still charges 3.3% + $0.45 on the item sale price plus shipping costs and applicable taxes.

On a $50 item with no shipping and no tax, that is $1.65 + $0.45 = $2.10, or 4.2% effective. On a $20 item it is $0.66 + $0.45 = $1.11, or 5.6%. The flat $0.45 is why cheap SKUs feel less “free” than the marketing. Boosted Listings, when you opt in and the boosted item sells, add a separate boosting fee (Depop’s help center lists 12% for US/UK on newer boosted listings). Do not mix Boost into your baseline take-home.

Buyers may pay a marketplace / protection fee at checkout. That is not your selling commission, but it is part of the price the buyer sees, which means it can pressure offers. Price the SKU so the processing line is already in your floor. Then decide whether Boost is a marketing spend you can measure.

Sellers outside the US/UK/AUS eligible program still see a 10% Depop selling fee in official help. This article is a US reseller map. If you are selling from another country, stop using these Depop rows.

Botifex added Depop as a sourcing market for Pro and Ultra in August 2026. Fashion inventory still leaks across Poshmark, Mercari, and Depop in the same afternoon. The buy can be on the cheapest-fee app and the exit on the dearest. Fee math has to follow the exit, not the app you screenshotted.

Whatnot seller fees: 8% plus processing

Whatnot is the market people still describe as “8%,” which is half the bill. Official help splits it: a commission on the item’s final sale price (excluding shipping and taxes) and a payment processing fee on total order value plus a fixed transaction fee.

For most US categories the commission is 8%. Coins & Money is called out at 4%. Comics, TCG, sports singles, and toys & hobbies have had promotional caps: 8% on the first $1,500 and 0% commission on the portion above $1,500 for a limited window, with processing still due on the whole order. Always check whether that promotion is still live before you model a $2,000 card sale as “8% on everything.”

US processing is commonly 2.9% + $0.30 on checkout value. On a $50 item with no shipping, commission is $4.00 and processing is $1.45 + $0.30 = $1.75, total $5.75, keep $44.25. Add $8 buyer shipping and processing rises with checkout. Commission does not. That split is the whole game.

Botifex’s Whatnot hunts are Buy It Now shop listings, not livestream auctions. BIN is the fee path you can plan. Live shows add giveaways, shipping lots, and hammer-price chaos that do not belong in a static table. If you source BIN on Whatnot and exit on eBay, you are stacking two fee schedules. Write both down before you bid on the buy.

Facebook Marketplace fees: $0 local, 10% shipped

Facebook Marketplace is two products that share an app icon. Local pickup paid outside Meta checkout is $0 platform commission—cash, Venmo, Zelle, whatever you and the buyer agree to in the driveway. That is still the highest-margin path in this entire guide, and it is why furniture, gym gear, and “too heavy to ship” inventory still lives here.

Shipped sales that run through Facebook checkout are the other product. Meta’s onsite checkout terms for the US list a Marketplace selling fee of 10%, with a minimum of $0.80, calculated on the entire transaction (sale price, shipping, applicable taxes). That is a change from the older 5% / $0.40 story a lot of 2024–25 blog posts still repeat. If your spreadsheet still says 5%, it is pricing 2024.

On a $50 shipped checkout sale with no separate shipping amount, 10% is $5.00 (above the $0.80 floor). On an $6 shipped checkout sale, the $0.80 minimum is the whole story—an effective 13.3%. Cheap shipped SKUs on Marketplace are how people discover minimums.

Local is not “free” in operational terms. You spend time, miles, no-shows, and payment-app risk. A $0 commission with a flaky buyer can lose to a 10% shipped sale that actually clears. Fee tables do not score that. Your weekly Track review should.

OfferUp fees: free locally, 12.9% to ship

OfferUp matches Facebook’s local story and loses the shipped story. Local meetups do not carry an OfferUp seller commission. Nationwide shipping does: OfferUp’s help center states a service fee of 12.9% of the item’s final price, excluding shipping costs, with a $1.99 minimum. Buyers pay shipping and tax. You see the dollar amount when you accept the offer.

On $50, 12.9% is $6.45 (above $1.99). On a $10 shipped item, the $1.99 minimum is 19.9% effective. That is the OfferUp version of Poshmark’s sub-$15 problem: flat or minimum fees punish cheap tickets. Ship the $200 tool. Meet locally on the $25 game.

OfferUp still belongs in a multi-market hunt because electronics and general merchandise show up there when Facebook is noisy and Craigslist is thin. The fee decision is not “use OfferUp” versus “skip OfferUp.” It is “enable shipping on this SKU” versus “local only.” Most resellers should default local and turn shipping on for SKUs that already clear a 12.9% haircut after comps.

Is Craigslist free to sell on in 2026?

For the typical US reseller listing a couch, a mower, or a lot of tools in for sale, Craigslist is still free to list and free on the sale. There is no final value fee because Craigslist is not processing the payment. You and the buyer handle cash or an app in person.

Free is not universal. Some cities charge to post in vehicles, housing, jobs, or services. Some categories have paid posts even for goods. If you flip cars, you already know this. If you flip toasters, you can ignore it until a city form asks for a card.

The hidden cost on Craigslist is time and risk, not commission: flakes, lowballers, and the fact that you cannot point to a platform payout report when you do your taxes. That is why Track still matters on a $0-fee channel. A free sale you forget to log is a free sale you will misprice next month.

Worked examples: $25, $50, $100, and $250

Percents lie at the edges. Flat fees and minimums show up on cheap items. High tickets make Poshmark’s 20% look brutal and eBay’s 13.6% look almost reasonable—until you remember eBay’s base includes shipping. The grid below keeps the same rules as the $50 table: US, standard category, no buyer-paid shipping, no ads, no Store, no Boost, Whatnot at 8% + 2.9% + $0.30, eBay at 13.6% + $0.40 (orders over $10).

Math check for the $25 Depop cell: 3.3% × $25 = $0.825, plus $0.45 = $1.275, keep $23.725 → $23.73. Whatnot: 8% × $25 = $2.00; 2.9% × $25 = $0.725; plus $0.30 = $3.025; keep $21.975 → $21.98. eBay: 13.6% × $25 = $3.40 plus $0.40 = $3.80; keep $21.20. Poshmark at $25 is 20% because $25 is over $15.

Now put cost of goods back in. You bought the item for $12. On Poshmark at $25 you keep $20 and think you made $8. Subtract a $4 mailer and you made $4. On local Facebook you keep $25, subtract nothing for a label, and you made $13 minus gas. Same buy. Different business. That is the entire argument for fee-aware sourcing.

Which marketplace has the lowest seller fees?

For a US reseller in 2026, the lowest seller fees are still in-person local channels: Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace pickup, and OfferUp meetups, assuming you are not in a paid Craigslist category. Among shipped, checkout-style apps, Depop’s US processing-only model is the cheapest common path if you skip Boost, followed by Mercari and Facebook shipped at 10%, then Whatnot’s combined take, OfferUp shipping, eBay most-categories, and Poshmark at 20%.

Lowest fee is not best marketplace. A Depop-only closet that never sells is more expensive than a Poshmark closet that turns weekly. Use fees to set a minimum ask per channel, then use sell-through and days-to-sell to pick the channel. That is the same trio as the research guide: sold comps, velocity, and deal frequency—plus a fourth number this post adds: take-home after the platform’s actual bill.

A practical default for mixed inventory:

• Heavy or local-demand SKUs (furniture, gym, lawn, large tools): Facebook and Craigslist first. OfferUp local if your city still has density. Do not ship these into 10–13% fees unless comps scream.
• Apparel and accessories: price a Poshmark 20% floor, a Mercari 10% floor, and a Depop processing floor. Cross-post. Let the first serious offer tell you where demand is. Do not assume the cheapest fee wins the sale.
• Electronics, cameras, tools with model numbers: eBay is often the exit even when the buy was local, because that is where the comps and the buyers are. Model the 13.6% + $0.40 (+ shipping in the base) before you agree to a driveway price.
• Cards, collectibles, sneakers: Whatnot BIN, eBay, and Mercari overlap. Stack fees if you buy on one and sell on another. Two 8–14% haircuts on the same SKU is how “I flipped it” becomes a wash.

Cross-posting is how you stop treating fees as a personality test. Draft once, push the title and photos into more than one create form, and let each market’s buyers vote. That is the point of Botifex selling tools and the browser extension, and of the multi-marketplace playbook: source cheap, sell where the net is real.

How fee-aware research changes what you buy

Sourcing content loves the hunt. Alert speed, ZIP radius, keyword exclusions. Necessary, not sufficient. The buy box has to include the exit fee or you are bidding against people who forgot Poshmark takes 20%.

A clean floor looks like this:

• Median recent sold on the exit marketplace, not the asking prices.
• Subtract that marketplace’s modeled fee (percent + base + flat).
• Subtract shipping you will fund, supplies, and a small return/no-show cushion.
• Subtract cost of goods. What remains is the only number that may be called profit.
• If that remainder is thinner than your hourly rate for photos, messages, and a drive, skip it—even if the listing “looks cheap.”

Example. A Poshmark-able jacket with eBay solds at $80. You plan to exit on Poshmark because that is where your closet already converts. 20% is $16. Label is buyer-paid. Supplies $3. True receipt ~$61 before COGS. The Facebook listing is $40. You still have to beat $40 + time. If you cannot clear roughly $20 after the $16 and $3, you are working for the platform.

Same jacket, exit on local Facebook instead: fee $0, but you may only get $55 because local fashion is weaker. $55 with no commission can beat $80 with 20% ($64 before supplies). Channel choice is a calculator problem, not a loyalty problem.

Botifex Deal Score is built around that idea: buy price versus resale range versus fees, not “cheap versus not cheap.” The deal scorer write-up is the product story. This post is the public fee table that story assumes you understand. Inventory on Pro/Ultra is where you record whether the model was right.

Seven fee mistakes that quietly kill flips

These are the errors that show up in reseller spreadsheets and in “why was my payout so low” threads. They are also the errors language models repeat when they train on 2024 blog posts.

• Using 2024 Mercari ($0 seller fee) or 2024 Facebook shipped (5%). Both are stale for a 2026 model.
• Calling Depop fee-free. Processing is a fee. $0.45 on a $12 sale is not rounding error.
• Applying Poshmark’s 20% to a $12 item. The $2.95 flat is worse. Bundle or reprice through the $15 door.
• Modeling eBay on item price only. Shipping and tax in the final value base are how “13.6%” becomes the 15% people complain about.
• Modeling Whatnot as 8% all-in. Add 2.9% + $0.30 on checkout, then check category promotions.
• Turning on OfferUp or Facebook shipping by default. Local $0 is the product. Shipping is a different SKU strategy.
• Ignoring ads, Boost, and promoted listings in Track while including them in your head as “the cost of doing business.” If you cannot see the line, you will scale the spend.

A smaller eighth mistake: copying a competitor’s ask without copying their channel. Their $40 Facebook local is not your $40 eBay. Match the fee schedule to the sold you are imitating.

How Botifex uses this map in Find, Research, and Track

This is not an alerts post. Botifex is reselling software: Find underpriced listings across those eight markets, Research what they are worth after comps and fees, List without retyping, and Track what you kept. Marketplace monitoring is the first layer, not the product.

On Find, hunt profiles already span Craigslist, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, Poshmark, Mercari, Depop, and Whatnot on Pro and Ultra (coverage is plan-based; Depop and Whatnot are not on Free/Basic). Speed still matters. A fee table does not catch the listing. A five-minute refresh on Pro does not replace knowing that the Poshmark exit is 20%.

On Research, Deal Score and eBay sold comps exist to stop “it looks cheap.” Fee-aware profit is the difference between a score you can buy on and a score that just ranks listings by discount. If you have been treating the score as a vibe, use this table as the missing legend.

On Track, Pro inventory and Ultra Business Mode are where the modeled fee meets the realized one. Log cost basis the day you buy. Mark the exit platform. Subtract the fee that actually hit the payout, not the percent you memorized in 2023. That is how you learn to pause a hunt profile that only “wins” on the highest-fee channel.

Free, Basic, and Pro still start with a 7-day Pro trial and no card. If you want the loop instead of another fee spreadsheet, start there. If you only needed the table, you already have it—bookmark the official help links and re-run the $50 column whenever a platform emails “we’re updating fees.”