eBay Fees: the Complete Schedule
Verified 2026-09-12 against eBay's own selling fees page. For a payout on your own numbers, use the eBay fee calculator.
The two fees on every sale
Every eBay sale carries exactly two charges, regardless of category: the final value fee, a percentage of the total the buyer paid, and a flat per-order fee. Neither is invoiced separately, both come out of your payout automatically before the money reaches your bank.
The final value fee is assessed on item price, the shipping you charged the buyer, and any sales tax collected, not on the item price alone. Price an item at $50 with $10 shipping and eBay's percentage applies to $60, not $50. This single detail is where most manual calculations go wrong.
Final value fee by category
| Category | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Most categories | 13.6% | 2.35% on the amount over $7,500, per item |
| Books, Movies & TV, Music | 15.3% | 2.35% over $7,500 |
| Coins & Paper Money | 13.25% | 2.35% over $7,500; bullion is separate, below |
| Guitars & Basses | 6.7% | 2.35% over $7,500 |
| Heavy Equipment, Printing Presses, Food Trucks | 3% | 0.5% on the amount over $15,000 |
| NFTs | 5% | Flat rate, no threshold |
| Women's Handbags | 15% / 9% | Whole sale reprices to 9% once it clears $2,000, not just the amount above it |
| Jewelry & Watches | 15% / 9% | Whole sale reprices to 9% once it clears $5,000 |
| Bullion | 13.6% / 7% | Whole sale reprices to 7% once it clears $7,500 |
| Athletic Shoes | 13.6% / 8% | 8% applies at $150 and above |
The threshold categories are cliffs, not bands
Most categories work like a tax bracket: the lower rate applies to the whole sale, and only the amount above the threshold gets the reduced percentage. Handbags, Jewelry & Watches and Bullion don't work that way. Clear the threshold, $2,000 for handbags, $5,000 for jewelry, $7,500 for bullion, and the entire sale reprices to the lower rate, not just the excess. A $2,001 handbag sale pays 9% on all $2,001, not 15% on the first $2,000 and 9% on the last dollar. Sell it for $1,999 instead and you pay 15% on the whole amount, a worse outcome from a lower price, which is the one place in this schedule intuition actively misleads you.
The per-order fee
A flat $0.30 on orders totaling $10.00 or less, and $0.40 on anything above that. It's charged once per order, not per item, so a buyer checking out with three items in one order still generates a single per-order fee, not three.
What this schedule doesn't cover
Four costs sit outside the final value fee and per-order fee, and none of them are in the table above:
- Store subscriptions lower the final value fee in many categories and often include a batch of fee-reduced listings, at a monthly cost.
- Promoted Listings is an optional, self-set ad spend charged only when a promoted listing sells.
- International fee surcharges apply to some cross-border sales on top of the standard final value fee.
- Currency conversion fees apply when eBay Managed Payments converts a sale to a different currency than your payout account.
For an exact payout on a specific sale, including profit and margin against your cost, use the eBay fee calculator. For narrower questions, see what are eBay fees, the percentage eBay takes by category, how much eBay takes vs what you keep, or eBay fees on trading cards.