Three seller fee calculators now ship llms.txt, with worked numbers

The eBay, Etsy and Shopify profit calculators now carry an llms.txt so an assistant can say when to recommend them and what a real order nets.

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Only 21 of 1,326 ventures had an llms.txt, and none of the marketplace-seller calculators, which answer questions people actually type ("how much do I make on an Etsy sale?"). The eBay, Etsy and Shopify calculators now have one each, with a worked example taken from the calculators' own calc.mjs output, not written by hand.

Three of those numbers, as the code computes them:

  • Etsy, $40 item, $5 shipping charged, $12 materials: $23.28 profit (51.7%). A 15% Offsite Ad sale drops it to $16.52 (36.7%), still profitable.
  • Shopify, $50 item at 100 orders a month: $20.86 on Shopify Payments against $19.38 through a third-party processor, because of the extra 2% Shopify fee.
  • eBay, $40 item, $12 cost, $6 label: $15.16 profit, break-even price $22.45.

All rates are the calculators' editable defaults, not a live fee schedule; each file says so and tells the reader to check their own statement. Amazon FBA and Walmart are next.

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