Best Place to Sell Stuff Online: Fees and Payouts Compared

The best place to sell stuff online is the one that leaves the most money for your kind of item, at your price, with buyers who actually want it. Fees matter, but they’re rarely the whole story: a site that keeps 3% more of the price can still pay you less if the item sits unsold.

Best Websites to Sell Stuff, by What You’re Selling

This table runs one sale through each site’s current fees, the same engine as our calculators. Where you keep the shipping charge and buy the label yourself (eBay, Etsy), we subtract the postage, so every row is what you keep after shipping.

How to choose, in three questions:

1. Who buys this? Collectors, fashion buyers and bargain hunters each have a home marketplace.
2. How much is it worth? Fixed fees hurt cheap items; percentage fees hurt expensive ones.
3. How much work will you do? Peer-to-peer apps pay the most; consignment and local buyers pay least but do the work.

Every guide here runs the same sale through each platform’s fees, dated, with the official sources listed.