OfferUp vs eBay Fees: $0 Local Sales vs 13.6% + $0.40
OfferUp's fee story changed in late 2025: the platform went local-only on 2025-09-23, retired its shipping feature, and left local sellers paying $0 commission. eBay never had a $0 lane — most categories there pay 13.6% of item + shipping + sales tax plus a per-order fee, whether the parcel ships or the buyer collects. Below, three sales of $75, $250 and $900 run through both platforms, with every rate dated.
Last updated · OfferUp rates checked against OfferUp's help pages on 2026-11-01; eBay rates from Feebrief's fee record (last updated 2026-10-26) and the eBay selling fees page, captured by curl on 2026-11-01 · United States, USD.
Feebrief is independent — not affiliated with OfferUp or eBay — and this page is not an official calculator for either platform. eBay's rate typically varies by category and both platforms adjust their schedules; the dates above tell you how fresh each number is.
OfferUp keeps the whole local sale; eBay takes 13.6% + $0.40 in most categories
Hand a buyer a $900 dresser at an OfferUp meetup and the platform's cut is $0 — you pocket all $900 in cash. Run the same dresser through eBay at its most-categories rate, with no shipping and no sales tax modeled, and the final value fee comes to 13.6% of $900 ($122.40) plus the $0.40 per-order fee, or $122.80, leaving $777.20. The gap is structural, not promotional: since 2025-09-23 OfferUp has been a local-only marketplace with no commission on local sales, while eBay bills essentially every order at roughly 13.6% plus a fixed per-order amount.
Assumptions used throughout this page: US seller, USD, OfferUp sale completed in person at a meetup; eBay modeled at the most-categories rate with $0 shipping and $0 sales tax; every total below $7,500, so the single 13.6% band applies and the 2.35% overage rate never triggers; no store subscription or promoted listings on either side. The worked nets are Feebrief's arithmetic from those published rates — derived, not copied from any payout statement.
Fee snapshot: what each side charges (US, Nov 2026)
| Topic | OfferUp | eBay |
|---|---|---|
| Commission / final value fee | $0 on local sales — no commission to compute | 13.6% up to $7,500 per item, then 2.35%; payment processing included; charged on item + shipping + sales tax |
| Per-order fee | None | $0.40 on order totals above $10; $0.30 at totals of $10 or less |
| Shipping | Retired — local-only since 2025-09-23; shipping fully removed by 2025-10-21 | Buyer-paid shipping sits inside the 13.6% base; the label cost itself is a separate expense |
| Listings | Free listing allotments by category; paid listing pricing NPA on help | 250 free insertions per month, then $0.35 per listing beyond the free allotment |
| Optional ad spend | Promote+ at $19.99/mo or $99.99/yr — optional, never a sale take | None in this comparison |
The base matters as much as the headline number. eBay's 13.6% lands on item + shipping + sales tax, with payment processing folded in, so the percentage touches every dollar of the order. OfferUp's local commission lands on nothing at all — there is no percentage and no base. That single asymmetry is what the worked baskets below quantify.
Net proceeds at $75, $250 and $900
Three asking prices, one assumption set: cash-style local sale on OfferUp versus an eBay order at the most-categories rate with $0 shipping and $0 sales tax modeled.
| Sale price | OfferUp fee | You keep on OfferUp | eBay fee | You keep on eBay | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $75 | $0 | $75.00 | $10.60 | $64.40 | $10.60 |
| $250 | $0 | $250.00 | $34.40 | $215.60 | $34.40 |
| $900 | $0 | $900.00 | $122.80 | $777.20 | $122.80 |
The OfferUp column is flat by definition — with no commission, the net equals the asking price at every point. eBay's fee scales with the item because 13.6% of a bigger number is bigger; the fixed $0.40 barely registers by $900. Two honest caveats: sales tax is excluded here, and when a buyer pays tax on an eBay order it widens the fee base and therefore the gap; and these three nets are derived arithmetic from the published rates above, not line items lifted from a payout report.
Shipping ended on OfferUp — with dates; on eBay the fee rides on top of it
The stalest thing in this whole comparison is OfferUp shipping. OfferUp went local-only on 2025-09-23, and by 2025-10-21 the shipping feature had been removed from the platform entirely — yet plenty of "OfferUp fees" pages in the wild still list a shipping percentage as if nothing happened. Feebrief's records hold no verified legacy shipping rate from that era, and this page will not invent one; for the platform as it exists now, the accurate statement is simply that no shipped path exists. Feebrief covers the full timeline in does OfferUp still charge shipping fees?
eBay is the mirror image: shipping never left. The amount a buyer pays for delivery is part of the final value fee base, so eBay effectively charges 13.6% on the shipping dollars too, and the seller's label cost remains a separate out-of-pocket expense. On a shipped eBay order, every $8 of buyer-paid shipping quietly adds about $1.09 to the fee bill; on OfferUp today there is no shipped order to add anything to.
Promote+ is ad spend, not a take rate
Promote+ is an optional $19.99-per-month or $99.99-per-year subscription that boosts how often buyers see your listings. It never touches a transaction: whether you subscribe or not, OfferUp's cut of a local sale stays $0. That's the whole section — anything you read describing Promote+ as a percentage of a sale is describing a platform other than OfferUp.
Live estimating covers the eBay half only
Feebrief publishes a live eBay fee calculator, so if you want to stress-test the eBay column with real shipping amounts or category rates, that's where it lives — linked here, not embedded. There is no OfferUp calculator on Feebrief, and that's deliberate: with a flat $0 local commission there is nothing for a calculator to compute. The OfferUp figures on this page are hand-checked facts from OfferUp's help pages (reviewed 2026-11-01), not tool output.
The eBay side has its own verification chain: eBay's selling fees page rejects Feebrief's automated fetcher with a 403, so the page was captured with curl on 2026-11-01 and read by hand, then cross-checked against Feebrief's fee dataset, last updated 2026-10-26. How Feebrief sources and dates every number is documented on the methodology page, and commercial relationships, if any, on the disclosure page.
Questions sellers ask before picking a side
Does OfferUp still charge shipping fees?
No. OfferUp became a local-only marketplace on 2025-09-23, and the shipping feature was removed from the platform entirely by 2025-10-21. Many older comparison pages still describe an OfferUp shipping fee; Feebrief's records contain no verified legacy shipping percentage from that era, so none is quoted here. For the current platform, the honest statement is simply that no shipped path exists.
What does eBay take out of a $75 sale?
At eBay's most-categories rate, with $0 shipping and $0 sales tax modeled, eBay takes 13.6% of $75, which is $10.20, plus the $0.40 per-order fee — $10.60 total — leaving you $64.40. The same arithmetic at $250 takes $34.40 (net $215.60) and at $900 takes $122.80 (net $777.20). All three totals sit below the $7,500-per-item threshold, so the 13.6% band applies throughout; these nets are Feebrief's derived math from the published rates, not scraped payout lines.
Do I need Promote+ to sell on OfferUp?
No. Promote+ is an optional visibility subscription at $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year. It is ad spend you choose in advance, never a percentage of any sale — whether you subscribe or not, OfferUp's commission on a local sale stays $0.
Where to read next
- OfferUp seller fees — the deep dive
- How much does OfferUp take?
- Does OfferUp still charge shipping fees? — the retirement timeline
- eBay fee calculator — run the eBay side with your own numbers
- Facebook Marketplace vs OfferUp fees — the other local-first pair
- Resale marketplace fees — the hub comparison
How these figures were checked
OfferUp numbers follow Feebrief's OfferUp record, checked against OfferUp's own help pages on 2026-11-01 — including the $0 local commission, the 2025-09-23 local-only cutover, the 2025-10-21 shipping removal, and Promote+ pricing. eBay numbers follow the eBay selling fees page, captured by curl on 2026-11-01 (eBay's site returns a 403 to Feebrief's usual fetcher, so the capture was made with curl and verified by hand), cross-checked against Feebrief's fee dataset, last updated 2026-10-26. Where a figure is derived rather than sourced — the $75, $250 and $900 nets — the page says so. Feebrief deliberately states no legacy OfferUp shipping percentage because none could be verified.
The fine print
Feebrief tracks marketplace fees independently. This page is a dated snapshot — 2026-11-01 — of two fee structures that both move: eBay's final value fee usually varies by category, the per-order fee has changed before, and OfferUp's paid listing pricing is listed as NPA on its help pages, meaning no public number exists to quote. Nothing here is financial or tax advice, and meeting a stranger for a cash sale carries risks no fee table covers. When money is on the line, re-check the live fee schedules on OfferUp's help center and eBay's own fees page for the categories you actually sell in.