What Amazon, eBay, and Etsy Fees Are Actually Costing You
If you sell online, you already know the fees add up. But most sellers never actually add them up — they just watch the number in their bank account be smaller than the number on the price tag, and move on.
Here's roughly what the major marketplaces charge today:
- **Amazon**: referral fees typically range from 8% to 15% depending on category, plus FBA fulfillment fees if Amazon ships the item for you — those can add several more dollars per item depending on size and weight.
- **eBay**: final value fees generally run around 13% for most categories, plus separate payment processing costs.
- **Etsy**: a smaller listing fee per item, plus a transaction fee around 6.5%, plus payment processing — three separate line items that stack up.
- **Walmart Marketplace**: referral fees around 15% for most categories.
None of these platforms hide these numbers exactly — but they're spread across separate fee schedules, calculated differently, and easy to lose track of until you're staring at a payout that's smaller than you expected.
List99 works differently: **$0.99 flat, plus 1% of the sale price.** That's it. No listing fees, no separate payment-processing surprise, no category-by-category fee schedule to decode. The only other costs are the real, actual cost of payment processing (Stripe/PayPal's own rate — not a List99 markup) and shipping, both shown to you before you ever hit "publish."
**Want to see exactly what you'd keep on your own item, at your own price?** [Try the Fee Comparison Calculator →](https://list99.com/fees) — plug in what you're actually selling and see the real numbers side by side.
*Fee figures above reflect general, publicly available fee structures as of this writing and are provided for informational context only — always verify current rates directly with each platform, as fees change without notice and vary by category, account type, and other factors specific to your situation.*
