Compare Marketplace Fees

Why the same item pays differently everywhere

Cross-listing the same $40 item on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari and Etsy at once doesn't produce four identical payouts, because none of these platforms compute their cut the same way. eBay and Etsy charge a percentage on the total the buyer paid, including shipping. Mercari is a single flat rate with nothing added. Poshmark switches between a flat $2.95 fee and a flat 20% at a $15 threshold. Run the exact same sale through all seven and the ranking isn't fixed, it depends on where your price falls relative to each platform's own rules.

Cheap items and expensive items favor different platforms

A flat-fee structure like Mercari's or Poshmark's under-$15 tier rewards cheap items, where a percentage competitor's per-order minimum takes a proportionally bigger bite. A pure-percentage structure like eBay's or PayPal's scales evenly, so it tends to look better on higher-value sales where a flat competitor's fee, while small in dollars, would have represented a worse rate on a cheap item anyway. There is no single "cheapest platform," only a cheapest platform for a specific price.

Use this before you decide where to list, not after

Pricing the same item the same way across every platform and assuming the margins come out even is how a cross-lister unknowingly runs some listings at a loss. Enter the number you're considering above before you list, not after the sale, so the platform you pick is the one actually paying you more on that specific item.