Mercari fee calculator
Mercari spent 2024 charging sellers nothing and moving the cost to buyers. It ended that on 6 January 2025. The structure now is a flat 10% selling fee, charged on the item price plus any shipping the buyer paid, and no payment processing fee at all, because the old 2.9% plus $0.50 was removed rather than folded in. Buyers pay a separate 3.6% Buyer Protection fee, which is not your cost but is your conversion rate.
Rates read from Mercari's own fee page on 2026-08-18, which states they took effect on 2025-01-06. US sellers only.
Your sale
Remitted by the marketplace, never paid to you. It still counts toward the fee on some platforms.
Mercari keeps $4.80
12% of the item price
| Selling fee10% of the item price plus shipping | $4.80 |
|---|
- Paid out to you
- $43.20
- Profit after your costs
- $24.70
The buyer also pays a Buyer Protection fee 3.6%, about $1.73 on this sale. That is not your cost, but it is on the screen when they decide.
The same sale on all five platforms
Your numbers, run through every fee schedule. eBay is modelled as apparel with no Store and good standing; its full model has more levers than that.
| Platform | Fees | Payout | Profit | Charged on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DepopMercari vs Depop | $2.13 | $45.87 | $27.37 | the item price only |
| Mercari | $4.80 | $43.20 | $24.70 | the item price plus shipping |
| Etsy | $5.01 | $42.99 | $24.49 | the item price plus shipping |
| eBayMercari vs eBay | $7.34 | $40.66 | $22.16 | the item price plus shipping plus sales tax |
| PoshmarkMercari vs Poshmark | $8.00 | $40.00 | $21.50 | the item price only |
On these numbers Depop pays the most, $45.87, and Poshmark pays the least, $40.00. That spread is $5.87 on one item. Where an item sells fastest still matters more than where it nets a dollar more.
What each platform actually charges on
Headline rates are not comparable, because the five platforms charge them on five different bases. This is the part that decides who is really cheapest.
- eBay, 13.6% on the item price plus shipping plus sales tax
- The fee is charged on sales tax as well as shipping, so eBay takes a cut of money you never touch.
- Poshmark, 20% on the item price only
- 20% is the highest headline rate of the five, but it is charged on the item price alone and there is no processing fee under it. Below $15 the flat $2.95 is worse than 20% would have been: on a $10 sale it is 29.5%.
- Mercari, 10% on the item price plus shipping
- Mercari ran a zero-seller-fee experiment and ended it on 2025-01-06. The 10% now applies to buyer-paid shipping too, and the old 2.9% + $0.50 processing fee is gone rather than hidden.
- Depop, no selling fee for US sellers
- There is no selling fee for US sellers, which makes Depop look free and it nearly is. The cost moved to the buyer: up to 5% plus up to $1 at checkout. Boosting a listing costs 12%, which is more than most platforms charge to sell at all.
- Etsy, 6.5% on the item price plus shipping
- The 6.5% is the smallest headline rate here and it is not the whole cost: add 3% + $0.25 processing and $0.20 a listing, charged again every four months whether it sells or not. Pass $10,000 in a rolling year and Offsite Ads become mandatory at 12%, with no opt-out for the life of the shop.
The fee no schedule prints is the item that comes back
A return on used clothing costs you both shipping legs, the refund and the sale, which is larger than the gap between any two platforms on this page. Most of those returns are condition disputes: the buyer expected one thing and opened another. A standardized grade sets that expectation before they buy, and documents what you described if they argue after.
You compared five platforms. You can list on all of them
The spread between the best and worst platform on one item is real money, and the answer changes item by item. FlipDesk builds the listing once and publishes it to eBay and Shopify by API, and to Poshmark, Mercari and Grailed through the browser extension.
Common questions
- How much does Mercari take from a sale?
- Ten percent, charged on the item price plus buyer-paid shipping. On a $40 item with $8 shipping that is $4.80. There is no payment processing fee on top, which is the part sellers coming from eBay or Etsy do not expect, and no listing fee.
- Did Mercari get rid of seller fees?
- It did, and then it changed its mind. The zero-seller-fee structure ran through 2024 and ended on 6 January 2025, replaced by the flat 10%. The trade was real, though: the 2.9% plus $0.50 payment processing fee that used to sit under the old selling fee is gone for good.
- What is the Mercari Buyer Protection fee?
- A flat 3.6% the buyer pays on the item price plus shipping. It does not come out of your payout. It does raise what the buyer sees at checkout, so a $40 listing costs them about $1.73 more than the price on the screen, which is worth knowing when you set a price against a competing listing on another app.
- Does Mercari charge on shipping?
- Yes, when the buyer pays it. The 10% is charged on the completed item price and the buyer-paid shipping together. If you ship on your own label and build the cost into the item price instead, the fee is charged on the higher item price, so it comes to the same thing.
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