eBay fees explained (2026): US and UK seller fees

eBay does not charge one fee per sale; it charges several, each worked out on a slightly different amount, and they arrive in your account at different times. This guide lists them all for the two biggest marketplaces, eBay.com and eBay.co.uk, with the rates eBay publishes for sellers without a shop subscription.

The short answer. On eBay.com (and eBay.ca) most sales pay 13.6% of the total the buyer paid — item, postage and sales tax — plus $0.40 an order ($0.30 on orders of $10 or less). On eBay.co.uk a business seller pays 12.9% in most categories, a 0.35% regulatory operating fee and 40p an order (30p up to £10), all plus VAT. UK private sellers pay no selling fees on domestic sales.

The final value fee

The final value fee is the big one: a percentage of the total amount of the sale. That total is not just your item price. eBay counts the item price, any handling charge, the postage the buyer paid and — on eBay.com — the sales tax eBay collected. A $34.99 item with $5.00 postage and 8% sales tax is a $43.19 sale, and 13.6% of that is $5.87, not the $4.76 you would get from the item price alone.

The rate depends on the category. These are eBay.com's rates for sellers without an eBay Store:

Category	Final value fee
Most categories	13.6% up to $7,500, then 2.35% on the rest
Books & Magazines, Movies & TV, Music	15.3% up to $7,500, then 2.35%
Coins & Paper Money; trading cards and collectible card games	13.25% up to $7,500, then 2.35%
Women's Bags & Handbags	15% up to $2,000, then 9%
Jewelry (not watches)	15% up to $5,000, then 9%
Watches, Parts & Accessories	15% up to $1,000, 6.5% to $7,500, then 3%
Guitars & Basses	6.7% up to $7,500, then 2.35%

The tiers apply to slices, like tax bands: an $8,000 sale in most categories pays 13.6% on the first $7,500 and 2.35% on the last $500 — $1,031.75 in all.

On eBay.co.uk the business-seller rate is 12.9% in "everything else", with lower rates for many categories — 11.9% for clothes, shoes and accessories, 10.9% for collectables, 9.9% for books, music and most electronics, and 6.9% (up to £1,000) for laptops, phones and TVs. Some have a lower rate above a threshold: Home, Furniture & DIY is 11.9% up to £500 and 7.9% above. Trainers are 11.9%, or 7% when the trainers sell for £100 or more.

The per-order fee

On top of the percentage, every order pays a fixed fee: $0.30 on eBay.com (or 30p on eBay.co.uk) when the order total is $10 / £10 or less, and $0.40 / 40p above that. It is charged once per order, not once per item, so it bites hardest on cheap single items — on a $8.99 sale it is more than 3% of the price by itself.

UK only: the regulatory operating fee and VAT

UK business sellers pay a regulatory operating fee of 0.35% of the total sale, on every sale, with no cap. And every UK fee is quoted before VAT: eBay adds 20% VAT to the final value fee, the per-order fee, the regulatory fee and the rest. A VAT-registered business normally reclaims that VAT; a business that is not registered cannot, so for them the VAT is part of the cost of selling. Our sales tax and VAT guide covers what that means for profit.

UK private sellers pay no selling fees

Since eBay.co.uk dropped selling fees for private sellers, a UK private seller pays no final value fee and no regulatory operating fee on a domestic sale — everything except cars, motorcycles and vehicles. You get 300 free listings a month, then pay 35p per listing. Sell to a buyer outside the UK and a 3% international fee applies.

Canada, Australia and other eBay sites

eBay.ca charges like eBay.com: 13.6% in most categories up to C$7,500 then 2.35%, worked out on the total including postage and sales tax, plus C$0.30 an order (C$0.40 over C$10). Selling abroad adds 0.4% for a buyer in the US and 1% elsewhere.

eBay.com.au lets Australia-based sellers with up to A$25,000 of sales in the last 12 months sell free — no final value fee — with a 3% international fee on sales to buyers abroad. Above A$25,000, eBay moves you to a Pro plan with its own rates, shown in your Seller Hub; Australian fees are quoted including GST.

eBay's European sites

Each European eBay site publishes its own table. For business sellers without a shop and with a good service status, the rate for most categories is:

eBay site	Most categories	Per order
eBay.de (Germany)	14% in standard categories; 5% for used and refurbished items in many of them	€0.35, or €0.45 over €10
eBay.fr (France)	9%	€0.35
eBay.it (Italy)	11%	€0.35
eBay.es (Spain)	9% up to €990, then 2%	€0.35, or €0.45 over €10
eBay.ie, eBay.nl, eBay.be, eBay.at	11% up to €990, then 2%	€0.35, or €0.45 over €10
eBay.ch (Switzerland)	11% up to CHF 990, then 2%	CHF 0.55, or CHF 0.65 over CHF 10
eBay.pl (Poland)	11% up to 4,600 zł, then 2%	1.35 zł, or 1.90 zł over 45 zł

Electronics, accessories, clothing and jewellery have their own rates on every site. All but eBay.de add a 0.35% regulatory operating fee, and every European fee is quoted before VAT, which eBay adds unless you have given it a VAT number. Selling outside the eurozone and Sweden adds an international fee: 1.6% for the rest of Europe, the US and Canada, 1.2% for the UK and 3.3% elsewhere. Private sellers based in the EEA sell free on eBay.de and eBay.fr at home. Every built-in site is in the calculator, and any other takes its rates under Another eBay site.

The international fee

Sell to a buyer abroad and eBay adds an international fee, again on the total sale:

You sell on	Buyer in	International fee
eBay.com	Outside the US (not using eBay International Shipping)	1.65%
eBay.co.uk, business	Eurozone, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden	1.05%
eBay.co.uk, business	US and Canada	1.8%
eBay.co.uk, business	Everywhere else	2.0%
eBay.co.uk, private	Outside the UK	3%

Promoted Listings: the fee you choose

Ads are optional, but for many sellers they are the second-largest fee. With Promoted Listings General you pick an ad rate, and when a promoted item sells after an ad click you pay that percentage of the total sale — item, postage and tax, the same total as the final value fee. At a 5% rate our example sale pays $2.16 more. How ad fees work has the detail.

Listing fees and the rest

Insertion fees — eBay.com gives 250 free listings a month, then charges $0.35 per listing; UK private sellers get 300 free, then 35p.
Seller performance — on eBay.com a seller rated Below Standard pays an extra 6% of the total sale on the next month's sales (7% after four months in a row); a "very high" rate of items not as described adds 5% in the affected categories.
Currency conversion — on eBay.co.uk a 2.5% seller currency conversion charge applies when eBay converts your money, rising to 2.75% from 1 December 2026.
Disputes — eBay.co.uk charges £14 when you are found responsible for a payment dispute.

Shop and Store subscriptions lower the final value fee in many categories and include more free listings. This guide quotes the rates without one.

Where you see what you were charged

Fees are deducted from your sales before payout and listed in your Seller Hub transaction report and on your monthly statement. They do not always arrive with the sale: an ad fee can be booked a day later, and a refund brings a fee credit back weeks after the sale. That is why a sale's true fee is only known once eBay's ledger has settled — see why your payout is not your profit.

Open the eBay profit calculator Free, no sign-up — US and UK fees.

Baiord reads every one of these fees from eBay's own ledger and attaches it to the order it belongs to — late ad fees and fee credits included — so each order shows what eBay actually took, not an estimate from a rate table. How Baiord handles fees.

eBay's own pages

The rates and rules in this guide were checked against these on 30 October 2026. eBay changes its fees from time to time; its pages are the final word.

eBay fees explained: every fee, and what it is charged on