Sell a $40 top on Depop and you keep $38.23.
Sell the same top on Poshmark and you keep $32.00.
That’s $6.23 gone on one piece, just from picking a different app.
So before you list the pile on your bed, it pays to know who takes what.
I ran the four big ones (Depop, Mercari, eBay, Poshmark) through our own fee calculator at a handful of prices, and I read each app’s fee page in October 2026.
Every number below comes from those two places, plus the resale guides our pricing tool is built on.
Want your own numbers? The free resale fee calculator shows what you keep on each app for your price, shipping and tax.
What a $40 top leaves you on each app
Here’s how each app takes its cut in the US right now.
Depop has no selling fee for US sellers.
It does charge a payment processing fee of 3.3% plus $0.45, and that’s figured on the price plus shipping plus any tax.
Mercari takes 10% of the item price plus the shipping the buyer pays.
There’s no separate payment processing fee anymore, since Mercari dropped it on January 6, 2025.
Poshmark is the simplest.
Sales under $15 pay a flat $2.95, and above that it’s 20% of the price.
Listing is free.
eBay takes 13.6% of the whole order for most clothing (the price plus shipping plus sales tax).
On top of that there’s a per-order fee of $0.30 on orders of $10 or less, or $0.40 above that.
Your first 250 listings a month are free, then it’s $0.35 each.
With no shipping or tax in the mix, here’s what you’d keep on a $12, $40 and $100 sale.
| App | $12 | $40 | $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depop | $11.15 | $38.23 | $96.25 |
| Mercari | $10.80 | $36.00 | $90.00 |
| eBay | $9.97 | $34.16 | $86.00 |
| Poshmark | $9.05 | $32.00 | $80.00 |
Depop leaves you the most at every one of those prices.
Poshmark leaves you the least at every one.
On a $100 jacket that’s $16.25 between the best app and the worst.
Not small money for one listing.
Under $15, Poshmark’s flat fee bites hardest
Cheap pieces are where the rules really split.
Poshmark’s $2.95 doesn’t shrink with the price.
On a $12 top it’s about a quarter of the sale, and you keep $9.05.
On a $5 sale you’d keep $2.05.
Weirdly, the cheapest sales are the one spot where Depop doesn’t come out on top.
Its fixed $0.45 outweighs Mercari’s 10% below about $6.70, so a $6 sale keeps $5.40 on Mercari and $5.35 on Depop.
Yeah, five cents.
But it adds up if you’re clearing out a drawer of $6 tees.
My fix for tiny sales would be bundling.
Depop charges its payment fee once per bundle, not once per item, so three $6 pieces sold together keep $16.96 instead of $16.05 one by one.
Sneakers and bags play by different rules on eBay
eBay sets its own rates for some categories, and two of them matter for closets.
Athletic shoes that sell for $150 or more pay 8%, with no per-order fee.
So $180 sneakers keep $165.60 on eBay, ahead of Mercari ($162.00) and Poshmark ($144.00).
Depop still leaves you more, at $173.61.
Women’s bags go the other way. eBay takes 15% there, so a $120 bag keeps $101.60, while Depop leaves $115.59, Mercari $108.00 and Poshmark $96.00.
One more eBay note.
On October 14, 2026, eBay raised its seller currency conversion charge for US sellers from 3% to 3.25%.
It only applies to items listed or sold on another eBay site, so a plain dollar sale on ebay.com doesn’t touch it.
Shipping and tax count too (and so does a Depop boost)
The table up top leaves out shipping and tax.
Real sales don’t, and each app counts them its own way.
Depop’s 3.3% runs on the price plus shipping plus tax, and eBay’s 13.6% runs on the whole order too.
Mercari counts the price and the shipping the buyer pays.
Poshmark’s fee only looks at the sale price.
Take that $40 top again, now with $8 shipping and 8% sales tax on the order.
You’d keep $37.84 on Depop, $35.20 on Mercari, $32.55 on eBay or $32.00 on Poshmark. eBay’s lead over Poshmark drops from $2.16 to 55 cents.
Then there’s boosting.
Depop charges 12% on boosted sales in the US, on the price before tax (plus shipping if you don’t use a Depop label).
Boost the plain $40 top from the table and you keep $33.43, which puts Depop behind both Mercari and eBay.
So I’d only boost a piece that truly isn’t moving, because that 12% is more than Depop’s whole lead over either one.
What your piece will actually resell for
Fees are the easy part.
The harder question is what someone will pay.
The resale guides behind our pricing tool put most pieces at a slice of what they cost new.
Fast fashion like H&M, Shein or Old Navy lands around 5–25% of the original price.
Mall brands like Gap or Levi’s land around 15–35%.
Premium labels such as Free People or Coach sit at 25–50%, and designer pieces at 30–80%.
Condition moves it from there.
New with tags can add 10–30%, while a well-worn piece can lose 10–30%.
So look at it the way a buyer will.
Run your fingers along every seam, check the hem for a drop, and hold the fabric up to a window for thin spots or pilling before you call it “good.”
If you’d rather skip the math, our free where to sell clothes tool takes the kind of brand, what it cost new and its condition.
Then it gives you a price range and the app that leaves you the most.
A few runs, all in good condition unless I say so.
Mall-brand jeans that cost $98 come out around $15–$34.
A $128 premium dress in like-new shape lands around $35–$70.
A $450 designer bag comes out around $135–$360.
And a $30 fast-fashion top?
About $2–$8.
At the bottom of that range Poshmark leaves you nothing, since $2.95 is more than $2, while Mercari keeps you $1.80–$7.20.
Price it from what sold, not what’s listed
SimpleConsign’s pricing guide says it better than I can.
“Pay attention to sold listings, not just active listings. An active listing tells you what another seller hopes to receive. A completed sale gives you evidence of what somebody actually paid.”
So look up three or more sold pieces like yours (same brand, similar condition) and type their prices into the pricing tool.
It uses them in place of its guide.
Say a $60 mall-brand top has sold for $18, $22 and $25.
The tool then calls it $18–$25, with $22 in the middle, and on Depop that would keep you $16.96–$23.73.
Then work backward from what you want to keep.
If you want $30 in your pocket, list at $31.49 on Depop, $33.33 on Mercari, $35.18 on eBay or $37.50 on Poshmark.
That’s about a $6 spread just to land on the same $30.
The fee calculator works this out for you if you type in the amount you want to keep.
So which app would I pick?
On fees alone, I’d list most pieces on Depop first and skip the boost.
It left the most at almost every price I ran.
Mercari wins on tiny sales under about $6.70.
And for sneakers at $150 and up, eBay moves up to second.
Poshmark kept the least at every price.
That doesn’t make it a bad app (fees aren’t the only thing that sells a piece), but you’d have to price higher there to take home the same.
What I can’t tell you is which app has more buyers for your exact piece.
None of the fee pages say that, so check sold listings on each before you pick.
Still deciding what goes?
Our free closet declutter tool tells you whether to keep, sell, donate or mend a piece, and it only says sell if you’d keep $10 or more.
And if something’s worth more to you worn than sold, these thrift store outfit ideas show how to style secondhand pieces.
The fees here are from each app’s own page in October 2026.
They do change, so give the fee page a quick look before a big sale.
