How Much Does It Cost To Start Selling On eBay?

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If you’re new to reselling and want to get started on eBay, you might be asking how much it costs to sell on eBay. Let’s dive into how much it costs to start selling on eBay and whether eBay fees are worth it.

What Are eBay Fees?

If you want to get started on eBay, you don't have to have a store. You can sell as a user and have up to 250 items listed for free, so you don’t have to pay anything upfront. You’re mostly just paying once the item sells, which is very important because it's nothing out of pocket. 

You can list it and then pay the fees after it sells. What are the fees? 

You may have to pay insertion fees. These come into play if you don’t want to get a store yet, but you’re listing more than 250 listings. You’ll pay 35 cents for an insertion fee on anything after those 250 listings. You pay that upfront, so you’ll pay it in the beginning versus when the item sells.

But if you’re just starting, you do not have to list over 250 items monthly. We sell less; we make higher profits on the items we sell. So you can do this without selling 250 every month and without doing that many listings. 

eBay Fees For Promoted Listings

On Facebook Marketplace, you get charged to boost a listing right away. It’s annoying because you don’t know if your item will sell. On eBay, you can do promoted listings, but you don’t pay for the promotion until the item does sell. Promoted listing fees can help get your item in front of more people and possibly the right buyer if it’s a specialized item. 

There are other ways to add promotions to your eBay listing, such as clicking to pay for a subtitle on your listing. You pay extra on the insertion for that, but we’ve never done that one. It’s optional. If you want to get charged for that, the insertion fee, you can do those when you’re sharing your listing. 

eBay Store Costs

When you first start, the fees will be 12.9% on average. On average, if you have a store, it's 12%. So it's almost a 1% savings, which you could end up allocating towards promotions anyway. 

eBay has a couple of levels of stores. There’s a starter store for only $4.95/mo if you pay annually or $7.95 if you pay monthly. With that, you get 250 listings a month.

Stores work for us because we do high profit items. With a store, you are charged fewer fees on the overall sale. So if you're going to sell stuff between $2,500 and $10,000, having one of these stores makes sense because how they calculate the fees that you owe on the backend depends on if you have a store. When you do have a store, they cap fees at 12%, depending on the categories.

It’s between 12 to 13% in that area; they're going to cap it at $2,500. So if you sell an item for $5,000, the first $2,500 of that sale is going to be a 12 or a 13% fee, whatever it is. It's the higher rate, but it caps at $2,500, and then the remainder of the money, which is another $2,500, they drop that down to two or 3%, which in itself alone is totally worth the subscription of the store. You'll save it on the first item that you sell, you know, at $5,000.

eBay Store Levels
There are five levels of eBay Store subscriptions: Starter, Basic, Premium, Anchor, and Enterprise.
Basic store - $21.95/mo if you pay annually or $27.95/mo if you pay monthly with 1,000 listings/mo.

Premium store - $59.95/mo if you pay annually or $74.95/mo if you pay monthly with 10,000 listings/mo.

Anchor store - $299.95/mo if you pay annually or $349.95/mo if you pay monthly with 25,000 listings/mo.

Enterprise store - $2,995.95/mo with an annual plan with 100,000 listings/mo.

If your business is higher volume, you’ll want to look into options above the basic store because you’ll be selling, listing, and doing a lot of sales in your business. But people doing high profit, low volume items can get away with a basic store or not even using a store to start out. 

Another benefit to having a store is getting a quarterly eBay credit to buy shipping supplies.

eBay Has A Worldwide Audience
With eBay, there's no audience cap like there is with local apps. Sell with global or international shipping on eBay to access buyers in other countries. eBay will handle all the international paperwork and ship it to the buyer from their global hub.
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Just found your channel. I love the woman’s calm. The man is a bit too enthusiastic lol. But hey that’s just me. Thanks for the info!

Tradewindsvintagehi
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The fees on eBay are definitely very expensive

cheeseoreos
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Before the last change on eBay they use to charge 30 cent to list an item. Then the change to free listings up to 250 listings. now they put it at the end as a final value fee. So the listing STILL costs .30 cents and now they charge % on sales tax. just found that out!

fastfeh
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I wanna start a EBay store. And thsi helped so much, thanks!

pranksunlimited
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Thank you! Went sell an item they said 215 fee but i didn't know if that was upfront or after sale. They aren't very descriptive about that. Im new so maybe i didn't see it.

HemiMichael
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Ebay fees are based of total sale. That mean Tax after Tax and shipping. It is pure evil. And that is why I stoped selling on eBay two years ago.

DavincisMind
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If you have a listing of more than 250 items, you get charged. 35 cents per item per month of the item doesn't sell?

ponketon
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No matter where you sell there will be fees, at a market, consignment store, even a friends store your gonna pay a them a percentage.

RoamingwithRover
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I am looking an answer. I hope can help me.
I have been having these fee hit my FC on items that have not sold. The thing that is interesting is they seem to hit right after I send a discount to someone. Fees range from $7 - 14. Please help me.

KimReinemer-ihvy
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Could I just add 12-15% to the total cost of my item plus shipping and still make a profit? Side note I’m totally new to selling on eBay 🎉

Thank you

photoshoot
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It said for private sellers you get 1000 free listings each month not 250?

cheeseoreos
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I am only selling one item in my ebay business. Why is it that ebay is charging me £2.76 a month even if I don't have any sales yet?

juliusgabol
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Thx, Im new to EBay and scared of fees. I feel much better now. Bless you both!

v.j.morrison
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If I want to sell something I bought on eBay for around $1, 781. Which is what I pay for it with taxes. I should sell it around the same price too? And what do you recommend on how to do it if I’ve never sell on eBay.
Also looking to do another sale on my own

EOimages
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I just passed my 90 day mark and my eBay fees are at 46.7% of my total gross sales. That blows my mind and I had a major meltdown about it yesterday.

lavendergal
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Is the 12.9% eBay fee that you mentioned inclusive of PayPal fees if the buyer pays by PayPal ?? I would really appreciate your answer. Thank you in advance and thank you for your helpful video

joejo