FOR EBAY RESELLERS
An eBay store trades a monthly subscription for a lower final-value rate. The usual pitch is “save a few tenths on every sale.” The missing piece is volume. The table keeps the same SKU, then compares staying at the rate you type with example Starter, Basic, and Premium mixes.
| Path | Monthly fee | Final value | Monthly leftover | vs no store |
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The subscription is taken out of monthly leftover, not folded into one sale’s invested cash. Example rates are inputs, not eBay’s current store schedule.
Sellers search “is an eBay store worth it” because $7.95 looks cheap next to a 13.6% final-value fee. Forty $40 sales cover it. Twenty-seven of the same sales already do.
On the defaults — $40 item, $6 shipping, 13.6% + $0.40, $12 cost, $5 outbound, $1 pack, 40 sales, $0 current subscription — staying off a store keeps $853.76 a month. Example Starter at $7.95 / 12.95% keeps $857.77 ($4.01 more). Basic keeps $845.13. Premium keeps $811.01. Starter still ties around 27 of these sales. Raise the month to 80 and Starter keeps $15.97 more.
It does not tell you to subscribe, and it is not tax or financial advice. A percent of a completed sale is Promoted Listings Standard versus skip. A fee discount for free returns is Top Rated Plus versus staying standard. The main eBay fee calculator still shows completed-sale profit and auction vs Buy It Now.
A store trades a monthly subscription for a lower final-value rate. On the calculator defaults ($40 item, $6 shipping, 13.6%+$0.40, $12 cost, $5 outbound, $1 pack, 40 sales, $0 current subscription) staying off a store keeps $853.76 a month. Example Starter at $7.95 / 12.95% keeps $857.77 — $4.01 more. Starter still ties around 27 of these sales. That is arithmetic on your inputs, not advice to subscribe.
On these defaults the 0.65-point rate cut saves $0.299 per $46 order. $7.95 / $0.299 is about 27 sales. At 80 of the same orders Starter keeps $15.97 more than staying off a store.
No. Promoted Listings Standard is a percent of a completed sale. Top Rated Plus trades a fee discount for free returns. This page compares a monthly subscription against the final-value rate it unlocks.