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
Live fee-change tracker
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.
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
Timeline
Seller-facing fee changes by date
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
eBay adjusted final value fees in most categories, with increases up to 0.35 percentage points.
Before
Most categories 13.25%
After
Most categories 13.6%
$50 impact
+$0.18
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
Poshmark reverted to the original seller fee and removed the buyer protection fee.
Before
$3 + 5.99% on a $50 sale
After
20% on $15+ sales
$50 impact
+$4.00
Poshmark replaced the 20% / $2.95 seller fee with a temporary 5.99% plus $1-$3 fixed seller fee and added a matching buyer protection fee.
Before
20% on $15+ sales
After
$3 + 5.99% on a $50 sale
$50 impact
-$4.00
Depop removed its 10% selling fee for new US listings; the US payment-processing fee remained.
Before
10% Depop selling fee
After
0% selling fee plus 3.3% + $0.45 processing
$50 impact
-$5.00
Mercari moved to zero seller selling fees in the US and shifted core marketplace fees to buyers.
Before
10% seller selling fee
After
0% seller selling fee
$50 impact
-$5.00
Depop removed its 10% selling fee for new UK listings; payment processing still applied.
Before
10% Depop selling fee
After
0% selling fee plus processing
$50 impact
-$5.00
Per-order fee on orders over $10 increased from $0.30 to $0.40 across categories.
Before
$0.30 per order over $10
After
$0.40 per order over $10
$50 impact
+$0.10
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.