What Changed in Marketplace Fees
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At a glance
- DepopDropped its US selling fee; US sellers pay payment processing only. Details
- PoshmarkFee Policy v1.7: $2.95 flat under $15, 20% from $15. Details
- MercariA 10% seller-paid selling fee and a 3.6% buyer protection fee replaced the 10% buyer fee and processing charge. Details
- WhatnotTiered commission replaced the flat per-category rate: seven sales tiers across six categories (existing US sellers; new sellers from September 28). Details
Four dated fee changes this site can evidence from its saved pages: Depop dropped its US selling fee in July 2024, Mercari swapped its buyer-paid processing fee for a seller fee on January 6, 2025, Poshmark's Fee Policy v1.7 took effect November 25, 2024, and Whatnot's tiers began September 21, 2026.
- Depop, July 2024
- Dropped its US selling fee; US sellers pay payment processing only. Details
- Poshmark, November 25, 2024
- Fee Policy v1.7: $2.95 flat under $15, 20% from $15. Details
- Mercari, January 6, 2025
- A 10% seller-paid selling fee and a 3.6% buyer protection fee replaced the 10% buyer fee and processing charge. Details
- Whatnot, September 21, 2026
- Tiered commission replaced the flat per-category rate: seven sales tiers across six categories (existing US sellers; new sellers from September 28). Details
On this page
A fee guide is only as good as its last check. This page is a dated log of marketplace fee changes, not a running history of every adjustment a platform has ever made — it lists only the changes that this site's own saved source pages can evidence, each with the date it took effect and the page it comes from. If a change isn't here, either it happened before this site started tracking fees or the page documenting it hasn't been saved yet.
| Marketplace | What changed | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depop | Dropped its US selling fee. Sellers based in the US now pay payment processing only, no separate cut on the sale itself. | July 2024 | Depop Help: Seller fees and charges |
| Mercari | Replaced the old 10% buyer fee and buyer-paid processing charge with a 10% seller-paid selling fee and a 3.6% buyer protection fee; no processing fee applies to either side. | January 6, 2025 | Mercari Help: Fees on Mercari |
| Poshmark | Fee Policy version 1.7 took effect, keeping the flat $2.95 fee for sales under $15 and 20% for sales $15 and above, with $15.00 itself in the 20% band. | November 25, 2024 | Poshmark Fee Policy |
| Whatnot | Replaced its flat per-category commission with a tiered table — seven sales thresholds across six verticals — for existing sellers. | September 21, 2026 | Whatnot Help: Whatnot seller fees |
This guide isn't affiliated with, or written on behalf of, eBay, Mercari, Poshmark, Whatnot or Depop; every row above is drawn from that marketplace's own current fee or policy page, saved and read directly rather than taken from a news summary or a seller forum.
Depop: no more US selling fee
Depop's help page states plainly that no Depop selling fee is charged to sellers based in the UK, US or Australia. Our saved copy of that page doesn't carry the day the change took effect, only the current, standing rule, so this guide gives the month rather than claiming a precision the page itself doesn't offer. A US sale today pays payment processing — 3.3% plus $0.45 — and nothing else, unless the listing was boosted.
Mercari: one fee became two, and the base moved
Before January 6, 2025, a Mercari sale carried a 10% fee paid by the buyer plus a processing charge of $0.50 and 2.9%, both taken from the buyer's side. Since that date, the seller pays a 10% selling fee instead, and the buyer pays a separate 3.6% Buyer Protection fee with no processing charge on top. A listing created before the change kept the old structure until it was updated; Mercari's help page says those older listings were switched over automatically within a week regardless, so the 10% seller fee is the one that applies to a listing today.
Poshmark: the current policy replaced a brief reversal
Poshmark's fee history includes a notice, effective October 24, 2024, that reverted the US structure to its original shape and dropped a Buyer Protection Fee that had been added earlier. Version 1.7, effective a month later on November 25, 2024, is the policy in force now: a flat $2.95 for sales under $15, and 20% starting at exactly $15.00. That $15.00 boundary is worth calling out on its own — older notice banners described the flat fee as covering "$15 and under," but the current policy text draws the line at $15, putting a $15.00 sale in the 20% band rather than the flat one.
Whatnot: the biggest structural change on this list
Whatnot's move from a flat commission to a 28-day, sales-tiered table is the largest change any of these four marketplaces made this year. See Whatnot's seller fee tiers, explained for the full table, the rolling window, and what the new structure doesn't cover.
Sources
- Depop Help: Seller fees and charges depophelp.zendesk.com
- Mercari Help Center: Fees on Mercari mercari.com
- Poshmark Fee Policy (version 1.7, effective November 25, 2024) poshmark.com
- Whatnot Help Center: Whatnot seller fees help.whatnot.com
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