Selling fees for eBay sellers

• Insertion fees
• Final value fees
• Fees for Classified Ad listing format
• Fees for Real Estate listings
• Fees for optional listing upgrades
• Additional final value fees
• eBay Advertising fees
• Dispute fee
• International fee
• Seller currency conversion charge
• Example of fee calculations
• Other terms and conditions
• Fees pages on international sites

Insertion fees

Every month, you get up to 250 zero insertion fee listings, or more if you have an eBay Store. Learn more about how zero insertion fee listings work, including the terms and exclusions for those listings.

After you've used your zero insertion fee allowance, insertion fees are:

• Non-refundable if your item doesn't sell
• Charged per listing and per category. So, if you list your item in two categories, you'll pay an insertion fee for the second category too
• Charged for the original listing and each time you choose to relist your item
• Charged per listing if you create duplicate auction-style listings for identical items. Read more about our Duplicate listings policy
• Charged only once per listing for listings with multiple items. Read more about listings with multiple items and listings with variations

Good 'Til Cancelled listings

Good 'Til Cancelled listings are fixed price listings that renew automatically once per calendar month. eBay charges an insertion fee and applicable optional listing upgrade fees when you list your item for the first time, and each time it renews. These listings count towards your monthly zero insertion fee listings. Fee amounts are based on the terms in effect when the listing goes live and when it renews.

Final value fees

eBay charges one final value fee when your item sells, and you don't have to worry about third-party payment processing fees. This fee is calculated as a percentage of the total amount of the sale, plus $0.30 per order (for orders $10 and under) or $0.40 (for orders over $10).

The total amount of the sale includes the item price, any handling charges, any shipping costs collected from the buyer (some exceptions apply), sales tax, and any other applicable fees.

An order is defined as any number of items purchased by the same buyer at checkout with the same shipping method.

If you need to refund the buyer or cancel the sale, you may be eligible for fee credits as per eBay fee credits policy.

On ebay.de, Final value fee for private (C2C) sellers who reside in the European Economic Area is 0%. The commission for international sales on ebay.de is 5%.

Fees for Classified Ad listing format

Insertion fees for Classified Ads are $9.95 for a 30-day listing and there are no final value fees.

You can use the Classified Ad format in the following categories:

• Business & Industrial
  • Building Materials & Supplies > Modular & Pre-Fabricated Buildings
  • Office > Trade Show Displays
  • Websites & Businesses for Sale
• Specialty Services
• Travel (excluding Lodging, Luggage, and Vintage Luggage & Travel Accs categories)
• Everything Else
  • eBay User Tools
  • Funeral & Cemetery
  • Information Products
  • Reward Points and Incentives Programs

Fees for Real Estate listings

Fees for Real Estate listings include an insertion fee, a notice fee, and fees for any optional listing upgrades you choose. Real Estate listings can be auction-style, fixed price, or in the Classified Ad format. No matter which format you choose, there are some rules you should be aware of, so please take a moment to read our Real estate policy.

You won't be charged a notice fee if:

• Your item has no bids
• No bids meet your reserve price, if you added one
• Your item is listed in the Classified Ad format

Otherwise, we charge a notice fee, whether or not you carry out the sale with the buyer.

Fees for optional listing upgrades

You can enhance your listings to help make them stand out by adding certain features, such as a subtitle, or bold font. The fees for these optional listing upgrades vary depending on your item's price and the listing format and duration. We've outlined the differences below.

Auction-style listings – 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10-day duration

Fixed price listings – Good 'Til Cancelled*

If your listing renews automatically, you'll be charged insertion and optional listing upgrade fees each time your listing is renewed.

Additional final value fees

You may be charged final value fees if you violate our policy of buying or selling outside of eBay, or eBay may apply additional final value fees if you are not meeting our performance expectations.

Buying or selling outside of eBay

If you offer or reference your contact information or ask a buyer for their contact information in the context of buying or selling outside of eBay, you'll be charged a final value fee based on the total amount of the sale even if your item doesn't sell. In this situation, the total amount of the sale is determined as follows:

• Auction-style listing format: The total amount of the sale is the auction start price, the Buy It Now price (if applicable), the reserve price (if applicable), or the price identified between the buyer and seller, whichever is highest.
• Fixed price listing format: The total amount of the sale is the fixed price or the price identified between the buyer and seller, whichever is higher.

Sellers not meeting performance expectations

Additional final value fees may apply on sales in the following circumstances:

• If your account is evaluated as Below Standard in the evaluation on the 20th of the month, you'll be charged an additional 6% on the final value fees applicable to sales in the following calendar month. Go to your Seller Dashboard to check your current seller level. This fee does not apply to Above Standard and eBay Top-rated Sellers.
• If your rate of 'Item not as described' return requests is evaluated in your service metrics as Very High in the evaluation on the 20th of the month in one or more categories, you will be charged an additional 5% on the final value fees for sales in those categories in the following calendar month. You can view your personalized service metrics on your Service Metrics dashboard in Seller Hub.

Any additional final value fees will be calculated as a percentage of the total amount of the sale. eBay will indicate which listings are subject to additional fees on your Account Summary.

Note: If your account is Below Standard and you're rated Very High in your rate of “Item not as described” return requests, you'll only be charged the additional final value fee for Below Standard.

eBay Advertising fees

Priority ad fees

Priority ad fees are based on your bid, the level of competition for queries in which your ad appears, and the clicks your ads have received.

For each campaign, the total ad fees charged each day for clicks on your priority ads cannot exceed the daily budget you set each day.

Here's how priority ad fees work:

• The amount that you will be charged for each click is based on a second-price auction
• All priority ad fees are charged at a listing level. Charges are determined by the sum of all cost-per-click clicks a single listing receives within a day
• When you promote your listings with the priority strategy there are two ways to bid: manual targeting and smart targeting. With manual targeting, you select a keyword bid for each keyword and keyword match type combination. With smart targeting, your bids will automatically be applied for you subject to a maximum CPC you set
• Because the listings, keywords and bids in each second price auction are unique, each cost-per-click calculation is dynamic
• Sales will be attributed within a 30-day window of a click on your ad

While it is possible to be charged for multiple legitimate clicks from the same buyer, we have checks in place to filter out invalid clicks. If clicks on an ad are identified as invalid, you will not be charged. Note that you will also be charged if you click on your own priority ad.

Viewing your fees

• Fees for your promoted listings campaigns using the priority campaign strategy will appear as "Promoted Listings — Priority fees" in your Payments tab or on your seller invoice
• We combine all clicks a seller receives on a priority ad in a given campaign on a daily basis and sellers are generally charged for these clicks up to 72 hours after the clicks take place
• Your charges are reported at a listing level. From your Payments tab or invoice, you'll see the campaign ID, click date, total number of clicks, and average cost-per-click per listing

The daily campaign cost is calculated by multiplying the total number of clicks received per keyword by their respective price. The daily budget is the maximum amount that you're willing to spend on a single campaign per day.

Once your campaign has reached its daily budget, your campaign will stop serving ads until the next day, when the daily budget resets. Any unused daily budget will not roll over to the next day.

Updates to your daily budget are made in real time. If you update your daily budget below what has already been spent, your ads will stop serving and your new daily budget will go into effect the next day.

Listings in a campaign will be eligible to begin surfacing again if you increase the daily budget of an out-of-budget campaign.

• If you update your daily budget below what has already been spent, your ads will stop serving and your new daily budget will go into effect the next day
• There is a $1 minimum and a $1,000,000 maximum daily budget

General campaign ad fees

You are only charged for items promoted with the general campaign strategy when a buyer clicks on your promoted listing ad and purchases any of your promoted items within 30 days. (A click is when a buyer clicks through to your item page from your ad, or clicks the Add to Watchlist heart symbol on your ad.) This means you only pay when you sell.

The fee you are charged is based on the ad rate you set for each listing. An ad rate is a percentage of an item's total sale amount (including shipping and any other applicable fees or taxes).

Here's how the fees work:

• You choose an ad rate between 2% - 100% of the item's total sale amount. The higher the ad rate, the higher the possibility of ad placement, leading to increased visibility
• Dynamic ad rates are aligned with the daily suggested ad rate, which is calculated based on a variety of factors such as item attributes, seasonality, past performance and current competition for each of your listings
• You will only be charged when a buyer clicks on your promoted listing and purchases any of your promoted items within 30 days of the click
• The ad fee is based on the ad rate you chose and the total sale amount (including item price, shipping, taxes and any other applicable fees)
• Ad fees are shown in your Payments tab in Seller Hub, or the transactions page in My eBay

Fees for using Promoted Offsite

Promoted Offsite is a cost-per-click (CPC) advertising tool. It uses a dynamic cost-per-click model and automatically adjusts for each listing on a daily basis. Your target daily budget determines how much you could be charged per month for clicks on your ads. You will be charged for clicks (exclusive of any applicable VAT/GST) on your ads up to your set budget.

• You set a target daily budget for your campaign, and eBay calculates a monthly budget. You'll never be charged more than this monthly budget (excl VAT/GST) within a calendar month
• eBay may spend above your daily budget up to two times when there's increased interest in your products, to help you capitalize on these opportunities. However, you can rest assured that your campaign won’t exceed your monthly budget
• If you end a campaign early, your daily spend might be up to twice your daily budget. This is because the campaign may not have had the chance to average out the budget over time

Dispute fee

Your buyer may open a payment dispute with their payment institution if they believe there's an issue with their order. A payment dispute is when a buyer initiates a chargeback or other type of dispute with their payment institution (for example, their credit card provider or PayPal). The final decision for refunding the buyer is made by the payment institution.

If you’re found responsible for the disputed amount, eBay charges a Dispute fee for each dispute. The amount of the Dispute fee depends on which eBay site the listing was created on. When you list an item on ebay.com, the Dispute fee is $20.00 (before sales taxes). If you accept the payment dispute and issue a refund, eBay will waive the Dispute fee, and you’ll be responsible for the refund amount issued to your buyer.

International fee

If your registered address is in the US, and you offer eBay International Shipping for your eligible listings you won't be charged an international fee when your eligible item sells.

If you're not using eBay International Shipping to ship your item, we charge an international fee if either:

• The delivery address for the item (entered by the buyer during checkout) is outside the US, or
• The buyer's registered address is outside the US (regardless of the delivery address for the item)

This fee is calculated as 1.65% of the total amount of the sale and is automatically deducted from your sales.

If your registered address is not in the US, please refer to the fee page for your country or region of residence for your International fee information.

Learn more about International fees for eBay global sellers

Seller currency conversion charge

When you create listings or sell items on an international eBay site, eBay may convert your funds to a different currency in order to collect amounts owed by you to eBay, or to payout funds due to you.

For example, if your registered address is in the US and you create a listing on eBay.de for which fees are due (such as insertion and/or optional listing upgrade fees), eBay will convert your funds from USD to EUR using the transaction exchange rate applicable at the time of listing, in order to collect these fees. When the item sells on eBay.de, eBay will calculate your payout amount by converting the sales proceeds from EUR to USD using the transaction exchange rate applicable at the time of the sale.

If eBay converts your funds, the conversion will be completed at the transaction exchange rate we set for the relevant currency exchange. eBay's transaction exchange rate is composed of a base exchange rate plus a conversion charge. The conversion charge is a fixed percentage applied to the base exchange rate and retained by eBay. The base exchange rate reflects rates within the wholesale currency markets applicable to the currency pairing on the day of the conversion, or the prior business day. If exchange rates are set by law or regulation, the base exchange rate reflects the government reference rates.

If your registered address is in the US, the seller currency conversion charge applied and retained by eBay is 3%. If your registered address is not in the US, please refer to the fee page for your country or region of residence for your seller currency conversion charge information.

Other terms and conditions

• If you use supplemental services, such as buying and printing shipping labels on eBay, or if you participate in any of our advertising programs, additional terms and conditions may apply, and you'll pay any costs or fees associated with those services. Details of the costs or fees will be on your monthly financial statement and eBay will charge the payment method you've set up on your seller account.
• All fees are in US dollars.
• Sellers may be invoiced for fees under certain circumstances.
• Fees may apply if you end your auction-style listing early.
• The fees on this page apply to listings on ebay.com. If you list an item on another eBay site (for example, ebay.com.au or ebay.co.uk), the fees for that site will apply.
• Seller fees don't purchase exclusive rights to web pages on eBay. eBay may, in its sole discretion and without consent from or payment to sellers, display third-party advertisements (including links and references thereto) and listings from other sellers on any eBay page.
• Depending on the tax legislation of your country of residency, local Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST) or similar consumption tax might apply in addition to your eBay fees.

Fees pages on international sites

For more information, please refer to the fee page for your country/region of residence: