eBay Fee Calculator

eBay's core charge is the final value fee: a category-dependent percentage of the total amount of sale — item price plus shipping, and on eBay's side sales tax too — plus a small per-order fee of $0.30 (or £0.30) on orders up to $10/£10 and $0.40/£0.40 above. Unlike most marketplaces there is no separate payment-processing line: since eBay moved payments in-house, processing is baked into the final value fee, which is why eBay's headline percentages look higher than Etsy's while the totals come out comparable.

The percentage depends on category and tier. On eBay.com, most categories run 13.6% up to $7,500 per item and 2.35% on the portion above; books, movies and music run 15.3%; trading cards and coins 13.25%; and a handful of categories carry special shapes — athletic shoes at $150 or more pay a flat 8% with no per-order fee, guitars just 6.7%. A Basic-or-higher eBay Store cuts the most-category rate to 12.7% (tiered at $2,500), which is the main financial case for the subscription once volume justifies it.

A US seller moves an item at $100 with $10 shipping. The final value fee is 13.6% of the $110 total: $14.96. The order is above $10, so the per-order fee is $0.40. Total fees $15.36 — a 14.0% effective rate — for a net payout of $94.64. Nothing else comes out: processing is already inside, and there is no US regulatory fee.

The same sale through a Basic Store runs 12.7% × $110 + $0.40 = $14.37, saving $0.99 per order; at the Basic Store's monthly price, the subscription pays for itself around 22–28 such orders a month, before counting the extra free listings. And because the fee applies to shipping as well as the item, charging more for postage never dodges fees — $110 total is $110 total however you split it between item and shipping. Price the bundle, not the parts.

Since October 2024, UK private sellers pay no final value fees at all — 300 free listings a month, no percentage, no per-order fee (vehicles excepted). eBay recovers the economics from the other side: buyers pay a Buyer Protection fee — £0.10 plus 7% of the first £20 of the item price, 4% of the portion from £20 to £300, and 2% from £300 to £4,000 — which eBay folds directly into the price the buyer sees. Your £100 listing displays as about £104.70. That matters for pricing: your competition on the search page is showing fee-inclusive prices too, and a £100 ask is really a £104.70 ask in the buyer's eyes.

UK business sellers stay on the classic model: a category final value fee — most fashion 11.9%, sporting goods and toys 10.9%, books and tech 9.9%, crafts 12.9%, business & industrial 12.5% — on item plus postage, the £0.30/£0.40 per-order fee, and a 0.35% regulatory operating fee on the total. A sporting-goods sale at £100 with £10 postage costs £11.99 + £0.40 + £0.39 = £12.78, netting £97.22. The buyer-side fee structure launched in February 2025 and was restructured mid-2025 to the current bands — a page quoting the old £0.75-flat version is out of date.

The calculator models the fees every seller meets and leaves out the situational ones, each disclosed here: sales tax joins the fee base on US orders (eBay charges its percentage on the tax-inclusive total, so taxed orders run slightly above the figures shown); international sales add 1.65% on eBay.com, or 1.05–2% for UK business sellers depending on destination; currency conversion costs 3% (US) or 2.5% (UK); promoted listings are a bid you set, not a fixed rate; and sellers rated Below Standard or with very high not-as-described rates pay steep surcharges.

Category rates are the other moving part. The tables here carry the major categories verbatim from eBay's official fee pages as of the stamped date, but eBay adjusts rates category by category — the US most-category rate itself rose from 13.25% to 13.6% within the last eighteen months — and dozens of niche categories carry their own shapes (watches and handbags tier at different thresholds, heavy equipment runs 3%). If your category isn't listed, eBay's fee page for your specific category is the authority, and the arithmetic here still shows the structure your rate plugs into.