Pokémon card selling calculator

How to use the calculator

1. Pick the card. Search by name and number. If you came from the price checker, a card page or the grading calculator, the card is already there.
2. Choose the printing, then raw or graded. A 1st Edition and an Unlimited copy of the same card sell for very different money, and so do a raw copy and a slab. Nothing is priced until you’ve said which one is yours. For a slab, pick the grading company and the grade.
3. Check the sale price against the comps. The box is filled with our estimate for that exact copy, or the price you carried over, and it says which. Beside it sit the usual range, the number of sales behind the figure, the last sale and its date. Go above or below the range and the calculator says so, then carries on with your number. Where the comps are thin, it says that too.
4. Add what the buyer pays for shipping, if you charge for it, and any sales tax on the order. Both count towards the fee.
5. Add your own costs: what the postage costs you, and the sleeve, toploader and mailer.
6. Add what you paid for the card to see profit, not just take-home.

Each marketplace’s result lists every fee with the amount it was worked out on, so you can check it against your own sales.

Where the sale price comes from

From sold listings for the same card, the same printing and the same state: raw copies for a raw card, PSA 7 sales for a PSA 7. We never fill a gap from the grade next door, another printing or another grading company. If we hold nothing for your copy the box stays empty and you type the price from sold listings you’ve checked. Asking prices are not counted. Sales are recorded in US dollars; on the UK side they are shown in pounds at the day’s rate.

What you keep at common prices

One card, no charge for shipping, no sales tax, before your postage and packing. Worked out from the fee rules below.

The fixed charge per order is why cheap cards lose the biggest share. On a $5 card, eBay’s fee is 19.2% of the price, against 13.7% on a $100 card. Bulk is better sold as a lot than one card at a time.

eBay fees on Pokémon cards

Pokémon cards sit in Toys & Hobbies > Collectible Card Games. For a seller without an eBay Store, eBay’s selling fees page gives:

• 13.25% of the total amount of the sale, up to $7,500 for each item, and 2.35% on the part above $7,500.
• A charge per order: $0.30 on orders of $10 or less, $0.40 on larger ones.
• The total includes shipping and sales tax. eBay counts the item price, any handling charge, the shipping the buyer pays and the sales tax. You never see the tax, but you pay a fee on it.
• International sales add 1.65% of the total when the buyer’s address is outside the US, unless the order goes through eBay International Shipping. The calculator doesn’t add this: take it off yourself for an overseas buyer.

Your first 250 listings a month are free to list; after that eBay charges an insertion fee for each. Promoted listings and a Store subscription change the sums and aren’t included.

TCGplayer fees

For a standard Marketplace seller (a Level 1 to 4 account), TCGplayer’s fees are two lines:

• Commission: 10.75% of the order subtotal, capped at $75 for each product sold. The cap is reached at about $698: past that, the commission on a single card doesn’t grow.
• Transaction fee: 2.5% of the order total plus $0.30. The order total includes shipping and tax.

Pro sellers pay 9.25% commission and a 2.5% Pro fee in its place. TCGplayer raised the standard commission and the cap in February 2026, so older calculators showing 10.25% and a $50 cap are out of date. TCGplayer sells raw cards by condition; graded cards mostly sell on eBay.

eBay or TCGplayer?

On a $100 card the two are $0.10 apart. Fees are rarely the deciding factor. What decides it is the card:

• Graded cards, vintage, and anything unusual sell best on eBay, where buyers can see photos of the exact copy and bid.
• Modern raw singles in near mint move quickly on TCGplayer, where buyers shop by price and condition and don’t need photos.
• Expensive raw cards are cheaper to sell on TCGplayer once the commission cap is reached, but fewer buyers spend four figures there.

The best place to sell Pokémon cards online compares the options, local shops and card shows included.

Costs that get forgotten

• Postage. A stamp and a plain envelope is fine for a cheap card. Anything worth real money wants tracking, which costs several dollars. Put in what you’ll really pay.
• Packing. Penny sleeve, toploader, team bag, mailer. Small, but it’s a share of a $5 sale.
• Free shipping isn’t free. If you offer it, the postage comes out of your side. If you charge for it, you pay a fee on what you charge.
• What you paid. Take-home isn’t profit. A card you bought for $80 and clear $87 on has made you $7.
• Returns and lost post. Not in the sums, and worth keeping a margin for.

What price do I need to break even?

Add what you paid to your postage and packing, add the per-order charge, and divide by one minus the fee rate. On eBay, with the fee at 13.25%: a card you paid $50 for, with $5 of postage and packing, needs to sell for ($50 + $5 + $0.40) ÷ 0.8675 = $63.87 before you’ve made anything.

Selling from the UK

Switch the calculator to UK. UK-based private sellers pay no final value fee or regulatory operating fee; buyers pay eBay's buyer protection fee on top of the price. Auction listing fees of 5p–30p may apply. Private sellers outside the UK pay 12.8% + 30p. eBay’s UK business rate for trading cards couldn’t be confirmed from its fee page, so that line is shown as an assumption you can edit.

Where the fee rules come from

• eBay (US), standard seller, collectible card games category: eBay selling fees (US), checked Sep 29, 2026.
• TCGplayer (US), marketplace seller (level 1–4 account): TCGplayer fees, checked Sep 29, 2026.
• TCGplayer (US), pro seller (non-direct): TCGplayer fees, checked Sep 29, 2026.
• eBay (UK), uk private seller: eBay fees for private sellers (UK), checked Sep 29, 2026.

Marketplaces change their fees. If a figure here doesn’t match your own payout, their page is right and ours is behind.

Before you list

• How to sell Pokémon cards: pricing, photos, and sending them safely.
• Where to sell Pokémon cards, online and in person.
• Thinking of grading first? The grading calculator shows whether the slab pays for itself, and the AI card grader estimates the grade from photos.
• Holding on to some? Keep them in the collection tracker, where every line links back here with its price filled in.