Where to Sell Clothes

Quick answer: to keep the most, sell it yourself on Depop (no selling fee in the US, 3.3% + 45¢ to take the payment) or Mercari (10%); Poshmark keeps 20% from $15. ThredUp, and The RealReal for designer pieces, do all the work for a bigger share. Used clothes resell for about 5% to 50% of their original price, designer pieces up to 80%.

How to use it

Type what the piece cost new (the tag price, not a sale price), tap what it is, its kind of brand and its condition. The answer is the price range two published pricing guides give for that piece, and the table below it is what you would keep on each app at both ends of that range, the most money first. Know your brand? Type it: a brand the guides list picks its row for you, so “Levi’s” lands on Mall brand and “Coach” on Premium.

Your own sold listings beat any rule. Search the app for the same piece, filter to sold items, and type three or more of those prices under Your sold listings. They replace the guides, and the answer shows their lowest, highest and middle price. Add the shipping the buyer pays if you know it: Depop, Mercari and eBay take their cut of it too.

Already keep your closet in our AI Closet Stylist? Your pieces show up in a From my closet list here, with the price you paid and the brand you typed. Save the estimate and the stylist shows what each piece resells for. It all stays in this browser, on your phone.

What each app takes, from its own fee page

• Depop: “No Depop Selling fees will be charged to sellers based in the UK, US, or AUS.” Taking the payment costs “3.3% + $0.45”, charged “on the item sale price plus shipping costs and any applicable taxes.” A Boosted listing adds 12% (Depop Help Centre).
• Mercari: “A 10% selling fee of the combined amount of item price and buyer-paid shipping will be charged to the seller,” and “no separate payment processing fee” (Mercari Help).
• eBay: 13.6% of “the total amount of the sale”, which “includes the item price, any handling charges, any shipping costs collected from the buyer… sales tax”, plus $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above. Women’s bags and handbags pay 15% up to $2,000, and athletic shoes that sell for $150 or more pay 8% with no per-order fee (eBay Help: Selling fees).
• Poshmark: “For sales under $15, the fee is a flat rate of $2.95. For sales $15 and above, the fee is 20% and you keep 80%” (Poshmark Fee Policy).
• ThredUp sells it for you and pays a share of the price it sells for: 3% at $5, 15% at $20, 30% at $50, 60% at $100 and 80% at $200, from the estimator on its own Clean Out Guide. A service fee of $14.99 (Standard) or $34.99 (Premium) per bag comes out of what the bag earns, and “an average of 38% of accepted items don’t sell within their consignment window.” It takes women’s and kids’ clothing, shoes, bags and accessories; no men’s clothing, intimates or pyjamas.
• The RealReal consigns designer and luxury pieces. Its commission chart refuses automated readers, so we quote its 2025 annual report to the SEC: “consignors can earn 20% commission on all sold items under $100,” up to 90% on the priciest pieces, and consignors “achieved an overall commission rate of approximately 62% in 2025” (Form 10-K). From $100 the tool shows that 62% average and labels it as one.

What you keep on a sale

ThredUp’s share between the five points it prints is ours: we read it on a straight line, so its $10 cell (7%) is an estimate. Its bag fee is left out of the table because it is charged once per bag, not per piece.

What a used piece resells for

Two pricing guides put a number on it, as a share of the original price for a piece in good used condition, by kind of brand:

• Fast fashion (H&M, Shein, Old Navy, Zara, Uniqlo): 15 to 25% says SimpleConsign; 5 to 15% says thrift.guide. The tool shows the whole spread, 5 to 25%.
• Mall brands (Gap, Banana Republic, J.Crew, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren): 25 to 35% (SimpleConsign); 15 to 35% (thrift.guide).
• Premium (Free People, Anthropologie, Coach, Kate Spade, Nike, Arc’teryx): 35 to 50% (SimpleConsign); 25 to 50% (thrift.guide).
• Designer and luxury (Gucci, Prada, Burberry, Chanel, Hermès, Dior): “35 to 50 percent or more” (SimpleConsign); 30 to 60% for luxury and 40 to 80% for designer (thrift.guide).

Condition moves it. thrift.guide multiplies new-with-tags by 1.3, like new by 1.1 and fair by 0.7; ConsignCloud adds “around 10%” for like-new condition and takes about 10% off for visible wear. Where they differ, the tool shows both ends: new with tags is ×1.1 to ×1.3, worn is ×0.7 to ×0.9. Multiplying a brand’s range by a condition’s factor is ours, and the answer never goes above what the piece cost new. Two more rules of thumb agree with the middle of those ranges: ConsignCloud starts “at 1/3 of the original retail price”, and Checkbook says consignment shops price “at one-half to one-third of their original value.”

A stained, torn or badly pilled piece is not in the list. None of these apps wants it as it is: mend it, or see where it can go in the Closet Declutter.

Four worked examples

A $60 mall-brand dress in good condition resells for about $9–$21. That is 15 to 35% of $60. After the fees you keep $8.25–$19.86 on Depop, $8.10–$18.90 on Mercari, $7.48–$17.74 on eBay and $6.05–$16.80 on Poshmark, whose flat $2.95 eats most of a $9 sale. ThredUp would pay $0.56–$3.26 and do everything for you.

A $120 premium jacket, worn once, resells for about $33–$66 (25 to 50% of $120, times 1.1). You keep $31.46–$63.37 on Depop and $26.40–$52.80 on Poshmark.

Jeans that sold for $25, $30 and $42 on the app. Three sold listings replace the guides: about $25–$42, and the middle one is $30. You keep $23.73–$40.16 on Depop and $20–$33.60 on Poshmark.

A $2,000 designer bag, like new, resells for about $660–$1,760. eBay charges women’s bags 15%, so you keep $560.60–$1,495.60 there. The RealReal authenticates and sells it for you, and at its 2025 average of 62% that is about $409–$1,091; its own pricing tool gives your bag’s exact rate.

What is free, and what is extra

Everything above is free and unlimited, and it runs on your phone. Write my resale listing costs one AI credit: a title, a short description and a list price for the app that leaves you the most, written only from what you tell it (brand, size, fabric, flaws) and priced from this page’s own numbers, the guides’ range or your sold listings. It never invents a brand, a size or a flaw, and never promises a sale.

Common mistakes

• Pricing from what you paid on sale. The guides work from the original tag price, and so do buyers comparing it to the shop.
• Trusting active listings. “Pay attention to sold listings, not just active listings. A completed sale gives you evidence of what somebody actually paid” (SimpleConsign).
• Listing at $14 on Poshmark. Under $15 the fee is a flat $2.95, a fifth of a $14 sale. At $15 you keep $12.00.
• Forgetting the fee on shipping. Mercari, eBay and Depop count the shipping the buyer pays, and eBay and Depop count the sales tax too.
• Sending a $10 piece to ThredUp for the money. Its share at $10 is a few percent; it pays off on the pieces that sell for $100 and more, or when your time matters more than the money.

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Fees from Depop, Mercari, eBay, Poshmark, ThredUp and The RealReal’s 2025 report; resale prices from SimpleConsign, thrift.guide and ConsignCloud. Checked 2026-09-26. Fees change: we re-read every one of these pages every three months.

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