Your eBay sale
Fee rates used — edit for your category
Default 13.25% is a common final value fee for clothing, shoes and general categories; eBay's category range runs from 2.5% to 15.3%, so put your own category's number in. The per-order fee is $0.30 on orders up to $10 and $0.40 above $10 — the default is the over-$10 rate, so set 0.30 when you price a cheap item.
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What you keep
Break-even is the lowest item price where you stop losing money.
What eBay really charges
On the default sale — $40 item, $5 postage paid by the buyer, $12 cost, $4 postage, $1 packaging — the buyer pays $45.00. eBay's fees come to about $6.36 and you keep about $21.64.
Final value fee
This is the big one and it is charged on the total the buyer pays: item price plus postage plus any handling. Selling an item for $20 and charging $15 postage does not escape the fee — the $35 is what gets charged. eBay's category range is wide (2.5% to 15.3%); clothing, shoes and general goods commonly sit near 13.25%, with a much smaller percentage on the part of an item above $7,500. That is why the percentage box above is editable.
Per-order fee
$0.30 on orders up to $10, $0.40 above $10. On a $40 sale it is noise; on a $6 sale the $0.30 is 5% of the whole sale, which is why very cheap single items on eBay rarely make money. It is charged per order, not per item, so a multi-item order is cheaper than two separate sales.
What is not in the default number
Promoted Listings. If you promote, the ad rate (commonly 2%–15%) is taken from the sale price as well. Add it to the percentage field to see the real number.
Store subscription. A monthly fixed cost, not a per-sale one — subtract it from your month, not from this sale.
Insertion fees. Most sellers get 250 free listings a month; beyond that it is about $0.35 per listing, whether or not it sells.
International fee. Around 1.65% extra when the buyer is outside your country.
Using break-even and target-margin prices
With those costs this item breaks even at $15.06, so any best offer below that is a loss — and because postage is in the fee base, a "free postage" listing needs a higher item price than it looks. To keep 30% of revenue instead of merely breaking even, the price needs to be $25.66. Keep that number beside your listing when you decide whether to accept an offer.
Returns
On a return, eBay generally credits the final value fee but keeps the per-order fee, and you pay the return postage. If you take a lot of returns, add the expected loss to "packaging / other".
Price the same item across marketplaces
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