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Marketplace Fee Changes Timeline

A sourced tracker of seller-facing marketplace fee changes with exact dates, before/after notes, official source links, and estimated impact on a clean $50 sale. Use it to see when platform fees changed before repricing inventory.

Direct answer: Use the Fee Changes timeline when you need to know what changed, when it changed, and which official source supports the update. It tracks seller-facing marketplace fee changes with before/after notes and $50-sale impact, then points back to calculators for current listing math.

Latest tracked change

Depop

2026-03-23: Depop listed a 12% boosting fee for boosted listings from UK and US sellers on new listings.

Tracked events

10

Major fee events in the dataset

Platforms covered

5

Depop, Etsy, eBay, Mercari, Poshmark

Coverage

2024-2026

Last updated 2026-05-08

Monthly digests

Fee-change digests by month

Use monthly digests as a repeatable editorial template: each page keeps that month's fee-change rows, source links, before/after notes, and current calculator paths in one crawlable place.

Timeline

Seller-facing fee changes by date

Depop

Depop listed a 12% boosting fee for boosted listings from UK and US sellers on new listings.

Before

No required boost fee if not promoted

After

Optional 12% boost fee on boosted sales

$50 impact

+$6.00 if boosted; $0.00 if not boosted

Etsy

Etsy began collecting Texas sales tax on certain transaction fees charged to Texas sellers.

Before

No Texas sales tax on the transaction fee line

After

6.25% tax on 80% of the transaction fee

$50 impact

+$0.16 for affected Texas sellers

Mercari

Mercari reintroduced a 10% seller fee on item price plus buyer-paid shipping, added a 3.6% buyer protection fee, and removed the separate buyer payment-processing fee for new and updated listings.

Before

0% seller selling fee

After

10% seller fee on item price plus buyer-paid shipping

$50 impact

+$5.00

How to use this tracker

Recheck margins after every platform update

Fee announcements can look small in percentage points but still matter on low-margin inventory. Start with the fee-change row, then run the current calculator using your real sale price, shipping setup, item cost, category, and promotion assumptions.

Publishers and reseller communities can monitor the JSON or RSS feed for future fee changes. The feed links are static, crawlable, and built from the same source data as this timeline.

Citation context

Connect fee changes to the full data set

The timeline is the dated change log. Use the Fee Index for same-input marketplace comparisons, the Reports hub for editorial summaries, and the methodology page for the assumptions behind modeled fee impacts.

Pairing the timeline with those assets gives publishers and reseller communities a sourced event history, a comparable dataset, and a reviewable calculation method. The publisher kit packages those links with embed guidance and copy-paste outreach text.