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eBay Fee Calculator.

Sales are easy to see. Profit is not. Put a card through the calculator and find out what you actually kept after eBay took its cut, you paid to ship it, and you accounted for what the card cost you in the first place.

Free, no signup, nothing saved. Built by card sellers who got tired of guessing.

Your sale

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eBay charges 13.25% on sports trading cards up to $7,500, then 2.35% above that, plus a per-order fee of $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above. All of that is applied automatically. Sports Trading Cards and Collectible Card Games show the same 13.25% on both eBay's standard and store fee schedules, so a store subscription does not appear to change this rate, though some other collectibles categories do get lower store rates. Fees also exclude any sales tax the buyer paid, which eBay includes in its own fee base. Check your seller invoice and eBay's current fee schedule, then set your real rate here.

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Buyer pays $0.00
Final value fee $0.00
Per-order fee $0.00
Promoted listing fee $0.00
Shipping and supplies $0.00
Card cost $0.00
eBay's total cut 0%
Break-even price $0.00

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The leaks

Where the money actually goes.

The final value fee, eBay's commission on the sale, is the one everybody knows, and it is charged on the total the buyer pays, including the shipping you charged them. Charging more for shipping does not dodge it.

The per-order fee is the one that quietly ruins cheap cards. It is close to the same amount whether the card sold for six dollars or six hundred, so as a share of the sale it grows as your price drops.

Then come the costs eBay never shows you at all: the label or the stamp, the sleeve and the toploader, and what you paid for the card. None of those appear in your sales total, which is exactly why a strong sales month can still be a losing one.

Run a low-priced card through the calculator above and watch the break-even number. For a lot of sellers that is the first time the under-$15 problem stops being a forum complaint and becomes a number.

For the full breakdown, including the fees that only show up in your payout reports, read Are You Actually Making Money Selling Cards on eBay?

Wondering whether a card is worth sending off first? The PSA grading calculator does the same job for grading, with real US and Canadian pricing. And if you sell more than cards, the eBay profit calculator runs this math for any category, with a target-profit solver built in.

One card down

Now do that four hundred more times.

Nobody is typing their whole store into a calculator. WaxEngine connects to your eBay account and does this math on every order automatically, going back two years, so you get one honest profit number instead of a spreadsheet you will abandon in March.

Listing the cards is the other half of it: the eBay bulk listing tool scans a stack of photos into a review queue, and eBay listing software covers the whole workflow from photo to live listing.

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Common questions.

How much are eBay fees on trading cards?
13.25% of the total the buyer pays on the portion up to $7,500, then 2.35% above that, plus a per-order fee of $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 on anything above. The calculator applies all of it, including the step at $10 that most fee calculators miss.
Does an eBay Store subscription lower your card fees?
For sports cards, it does not appear to. Sports Trading Cards and Collectible Card Games are listed at 13.25% up to $7,500 on both eBay’s standard and store fee schedules. Other collectibles do differ: Non-Sport Trading Cards and Comic Books show a store rate of 12.35% up to $2,500, so your category decides the answer. What a store reliably buys you is a bigger allotment of zero insertion fee listings. The discount that does cut the percentage is Top Rated Seller Plus, worth 10% off the final value fee rate, which requires same or 1-day handling and 30-day free returns.
Is the final value fee the same as eBay's commission?
Yes. What sellers call eBay's commission is officially the final value fee: the percentage eBay keeps from the total the buyer pays. Whether you searched for an eBay commission calculator or a final value fee calculator, this tool runs that exact math with card-seller defaults, including the per-order fee and the $7,500 tier break.
Does this include sales tax?
No, and that is worth knowing. eBay calculates its final value fee on the full amount the buyer paid including sales tax, and tax also counts toward the $10 per-order fee threshold. This calculator works from your item price and shipping only, so on a taxed order your real eBay fee will be slightly higher than the figure shown here.
Do eBay fees apply to shipping?
Yes. The final value fee is calculated on the full amount the buyer pays, shipping and handling included. This surprises a lot of sellers who try to shift price into shipping.
How much does eBay take from a $20 card sale?
With $5 shipping charged, the buyer pays $25. At 13.25% that is $3.31 in final value fees plus the $0.40 per-order fee, so about $3.71 to eBay. Your label, supplies, and card cost come out after that.
Why do cheap cards feel like they make no money?
The per-order fee, the label, and the supplies barely change with the sale price, so on a $6 card those fixed costs can be a third of the sale before eBay takes a percentage. That is the whole reason card sellers say fees eat everything under $15.
Is this calculator really free?
Yes. No signup, no email required, nothing stored. It runs entirely in your browser. We build software for card sellers, and this is the part we can just give away.

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